Dear friends,
I filed an RTI application on the 11th of February, 2012 for getting information about the unjust and illegal repudiation of arrears to the resigning employees during implementation of the Wage Revision Charters of LIC of India. Needless to say, this was done as I didn't get any reply from LIC, to my representations for payment of arrears and difference in retirement benefits due to me, for 8 long months! Thus I started a crusade for getting replies to all questions plaguing my mind and indeed every other resigning employee's mind; as to the reasons for repudiation.
After first and second appeals and endless correspondence, all that I could manage to get from LIC was that: This injustice was going on since 1st August, 1997, (exactly 2 decades ago), names of a handful of employees (not the entire list as asked for), it didn't have the Minutes of meetings for the same (rather didn't want to give them to me, for obvious reasons), didn't have reason for the repudiation, on its records (thus admitting that its decision was arbitrary) and that it didn't have all the information asked for by me (speaking volumes about the ethics, accounting and record-keeping practices of LIC)! So much for transparency and honesty, by a distinguished Public Authority!
Till date, the details of my RTI application and the subsequent 1st and 2nd Appeals have not been uploaded by LIC on its website, as is mandated for Public Authorities.
I have compiled a list of ex-employees affected by repudiation, but there are many more names that still remain missing from my list and I hope that the concerned ex-employees will inform me at the earliest so that I can take my crusade to the next level.
In spite of contacting all the major dailies and several publications, I haven't received any support from them, which makes me wonder about their unusual reticence in highlighting this important issue.
If a reputed Public Authority like LIC of India can heap such injustice on its employees who have sincerely worked for its progress, is there any guarantee that it wouldn't do the same to its esteemed and invaluable policy-holders, in the long run? It has also deprived the Central Exchequer of the income-tax payments which would've been deducted from these arrears' payments, had they been made to the resigning employees!
In spite of the Supreme Court's judgments favoring the employees, LIC continues incorporation of the Clause 3 1 B which has been declared ultra-vires by the Supreme Court; in each Charter of wage revision; and repudiates arrears' payments with impunity. Thus it defies the laws of the land with utter contempt. Should we allow LIC to get away with it or bring it to book at the earliest?
Think about it!
Nevertheless, I pledge to keep the mast flying high till the end result is achieved, in the form of payment of dues to all the aggrieved ex-employees. Come, join me in my crusade against injustice.
SATYAMEVA JAYATE! THE TRUTH ALWAYS PREVAILS!
Priya
I filed an RTI application on the 11th of February, 2012 for getting information about the unjust and illegal repudiation of arrears to the resigning employees during implementation of the Wage Revision Charters of LIC of India. Needless to say, this was done as I didn't get any reply from LIC, to my representations for payment of arrears and difference in retirement benefits due to me, for 8 long months! Thus I started a crusade for getting replies to all questions plaguing my mind and indeed every other resigning employee's mind; as to the reasons for repudiation.
After first and second appeals and endless correspondence, all that I could manage to get from LIC was that: This injustice was going on since 1st August, 1997, (exactly 2 decades ago), names of a handful of employees (not the entire list as asked for), it didn't have the Minutes of meetings for the same (rather didn't want to give them to me, for obvious reasons), didn't have reason for the repudiation, on its records (thus admitting that its decision was arbitrary) and that it didn't have all the information asked for by me (speaking volumes about the ethics, accounting and record-keeping practices of LIC)! So much for transparency and honesty, by a distinguished Public Authority!
Till date, the details of my RTI application and the subsequent 1st and 2nd Appeals have not been uploaded by LIC on its website, as is mandated for Public Authorities.
I have compiled a list of ex-employees affected by repudiation, but there are many more names that still remain missing from my list and I hope that the concerned ex-employees will inform me at the earliest so that I can take my crusade to the next level.
In spite of contacting all the major dailies and several publications, I haven't received any support from them, which makes me wonder about their unusual reticence in highlighting this important issue.
If a reputed Public Authority like LIC of India can heap such injustice on its employees who have sincerely worked for its progress, is there any guarantee that it wouldn't do the same to its esteemed and invaluable policy-holders, in the long run? It has also deprived the Central Exchequer of the income-tax payments which would've been deducted from these arrears' payments, had they been made to the resigning employees!
In spite of the Supreme Court's judgments favoring the employees, LIC continues incorporation of the Clause 3 1 B which has been declared ultra-vires by the Supreme Court; in each Charter of wage revision; and repudiates arrears' payments with impunity. Thus it defies the laws of the land with utter contempt. Should we allow LIC to get away with it or bring it to book at the earliest?
Think about it!
Nevertheless, I pledge to keep the mast flying high till the end result is achieved, in the form of payment of dues to all the aggrieved ex-employees. Come, join me in my crusade against injustice.
SATYAMEVA JAYATE! THE TRUTH ALWAYS PREVAILS!
Priya
