LIC of India commits the same blunder impudently defying Supreme Court judgments!

Arrears repudiated by LIC of India again, despite a Supreme Court judgment in 2007, declaring the said clause of repudiation to be 'ultra vires'!

Excerpt from the Gazette Notification

 MINISTRY OF FINANCE (Department of Financial Services) (INSURANCE DIVISION) NOTIFICATION New Delhi, the 14th January, 2016 G.S.R. 28(E).—

In exercise of the powers conferred by section 48 of the Life Insurance Corporation Act, 1956 (31 of 1956), the Central Government hereby makes the following rules further to amend the Life Insurance Corporation of India, Class I Officers (Revision of Terms and Conditions of Service) Rules, 1985, namely: ─ 1. (1) These rules may be called the Life Insurance Corporation of India, Class I Officers (Revision of Terms and Conditions of Service) Amendment Rules, 2016. (2) Save as otherwise provided in these rules, these rules shall be deemed to have come into force on the 1st day of August, 2012. (3) These rules shall be applicable to those Class I Officers who were in the whole-time salaried service in the permanent establishment of the Corporation on or after the 1st August, 2012: Provided that where any Class I Officer gives a notice in writing to the Corporation, within a period as specified by the Corporation, expressing his option to be governed by the provisions of these rules from a date not earlier than the date on which the said rules come into force and not later than the date of publication of this notification in the Official Gazette, then the Corporation may, by order, permit such Officer to be governed by the said rules with effect from the said date and no arrears for the period prior to the date so opted shall be payable to such officer: 6 THE GAZETTE OF INDIA : EXTRAORDINARY [PART II—SEC. 3(i)] Provided further that the officers whose resignations had been accepted or whose services had been terminated under rule 39 of Life Insurance Corporation of India (Staff) Rules, 1960 during the period from the 1st August, 2012 to the date of publication of this notification in the Official Gazette, shall not be eligible for the arrears on account of revision. 

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Kindly note that the same clause was there in the Wage Revision Charter of 2010 also, wherein my arrears were illegally repudiated, along with that of scores of other resigning employees like me. In 2012, I had filed an RTI appeal against the Corporation. LIC of India has not given me the full statistics regarding number of ex-employees whose dues have been repudiated since 1997, amounts involved, etc. All the details of my RTI crusade are available on this blog.

Is the Finance Ministry and LIC of India in perpetual limbo? Don't they refer to the Supreme Court's judgments on this issue? Do they think that they are above the laws of this land?

I have been pointing out the Supreme Court's judgment in this blog since 2014! All the judgments on this issue are available easily on the internet. Both, LIC of India and the Government of India are tech-savvy, so it is impossible that they don't know about this judgment and its ramifications!

Is this the right way forward for DIGITAL INDIA? Or even for talented, hard-working and sincere employees like us; to be so unjustly deprived of our legally rightful, hard-earned dues?

Would the Honorable Prime Minister of India please intervene on our behalf and resolve this issue at the earliest, so that all of us long-suffering ex-employees could gracefully get our dues?

All of us would be highly obliged!