1. What is the official reason, because
of which my arrears payment and difference in retirement benefits were
repudiated during Wage Revision payment in the latest Wage Revision Charter
dated 11th October, 2010?
2. Kindly provide me a copy of the
gazette and official notification, along with information about which specific
provisions of the gazette and official notification justify or state that I
should not be given the arrears due w.e.f August 2007?
3. Please furnish me a copy of Names,
Addresses, Telephone/Mobile nos., Branch Nos., Branch addresses, D.O. Nos. and
D.O. addresses of all the employees of LIC of India, who were denied arrears’ payment
under the Charter dated 11th October, 2010.
4. Were
any of the above employees paid the arrears amount by LIC of India? If so, why, when and by whom? Names
and other details as in (3) above, to be furnished. Documentary proof to be
provided by LIC of India.
5. Is there any case filed by any such
employee, whose arrears’ payment was repudiated by LIC of India, against LIC of
India; in respect of any such Charter.
If so, details about the case—Name of the appellant, B.O. and D.O.
addresses, residential and official address, telephone/mobile no., Charter Date
(in respect of any such charter, including the latest one) and copy of the
judgement.
6. What was the outcome of the case as
in (5) above? Documentary proof to be
provided by the LIC of India.
7. No. of resigning employees all over
India and the total amount repudiated (of arrears’ payment by LIC of India)
with bifurcation in respect of each such employee; in the Charter dated 11th
October, 2010 applicable w.e.f August 2007.
8. No. of employees, names, addresses,
telephone/mobile nos. and amounts repudiated respectively (in respect of each
one) under all the Charters of Wage Revisions (Previous 5 Charters, excluding
the latest one) and their Branch Nos., Addresses of Branches, D.O. Nos.,
Addresses of D.O.s also to be provided.
9. Since which year or which Charter has
LIC of India started repudiating arrears’ payment legitimately due, to its
resigning employees; and why?
10. Details of the exact legal provisions
and clauses on the bases of which LIC of India has arrived at its premise of
refusing to pay Arrears’ payment and subsequent difference in retirement
benefits to its resigning employees.
11. Who takes this crucial decision to
repudiate arrears’ payment to the employees?
The Government of India or LIC of India?
Details to be provided with documentary proof.
12. The total no. of transactions effected
under my S.R. No. 441595 from 1st August, 2007 to 2nd
July, 2010, the last date of my service in LIC of India.
13. Copy of the note or letter put up to
the Chairman, LIC of India for the final decision regarding my resignation.
14. Copy of the final approval of my
resignation by LIC of India.
15. Documents pertaining to the Board
Meetings of LIC of India wherein this resolution to repudiate arrears of
resigning employees; has been taken. Kindly provide Minutes of the Meetings
with signatures of all the attending members.
16. With reference to my representation
letters dated 20-10-2010 (addressed to the Executive Director, Personnel, LIC
of India) and 20-11-2010 (addressed to the Chairman, LIC of India), sent
through Speed Post and subsequent e-mails dated 22-10-10, 26-10-10,
01-11-10, 08-11-10, 13-11-10, 16-11-10, 20-11-10, 27-11-10, 04-12-2010, 06-12-2010,
09-12-2010, 13-12-2010, 21-12-2010, 24-12-2010, 25-12-2010, 30-12-2010,
04-01-2011, 13-01-2011, 17-01-2011, 28-01-2011, 31-01-2011, 08-02-2011; why were they not replied to
immediately? Why was there an inordinate
delay of 8 months for a single line unsatisfactory reply vide letter dated
14-03-2011, received by me on 07-06-2011, that too replied to; not by the
addressees of my letters, but by the lower office (Pune Divisional Office No.1)? Kindly provide an explanation letter.
17. Copy of the LIC of India, Staff
Regulations, 1960 and subsequent modifications/amendments therein, if any.
18. Names, phone numbers and official
addresses of the current Chairman, Officiating Chairman, Executive Directors,
Managing Directors and Sr. Divisional Manager of Pune Divisional Office 1; LIC
of India.
19. Please
provide a list of applicants for Wage Revision arrears’ payments in respect of
the Charter dated 11th October, 2010 during the last 16 months,
giving names, dates of application and dates on which replies were issued by
LIC of India.
20. What are the factors due to which the Wage
Revision Charter is delayed inordinately, every time that it is legitimately
due?
21. a) Does the LIC of India, Staff Regulations,
1960 and subsequent
modifications/amendments therein, if any, contain any clause wherein
it is mentioned that arrears payment after Wage Revision due to a Charter
notification, may be denied to an employee
on roll of the LIC of India in the period for which the Charter has been
announced?
b) If so, kindly point out the requisite provision or clause with
adequate, satisfactory explanation/rationale.
c) Does this denial of arrears
payment and difference in retirement benefits, agree in principle, with the
labour laws applicable in India?
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The copyright of this write-up is with Mrs. Priya Ramesh Swaminathan.
L.I.C of India gave the answers to only 3 questions, that too half-baked! In the words of the C.P.I.O of the Western Zonal Office of the Corporation, L.I.C didn't want to open a Pandora's box, by replying to my queries. He mockingly and condescendingly told me that asking for answers from the Corporation was like breaking my head against a brick wall and also that the Corporation would never answer my queries. He was also disturbed that I had asked for penalty as per the R.T.I Act to be imposed on him and L.I.C of India for not answering my questions within the mandatory time-frame. With audacity, he told me that my case would be closed in a month's time and nothing would come of it! He challenged me to approach the High Court. Then he asked me to treat his phone call to my mobile number as "Off the Record"!
If this is not intimidation and harassment of an ex-employee, what is? Shame on the Corporation and its officials who treat the hard-working ex-employees who have resigned for reasons beyond their control; like dirt! And we are just asking for our legally rightful dues!
But I placed it on record in my First and Second Appeals to the Information Commissioner and even squarely confronted him during the videoconferencing session at N.I.C. He blatantly lied that he had never called me up! I retorted by saying that he was lying. The I.C. took cognizance and then asked him to be more transparent (read - honest in his dealings) in future!
We, the resigning and long-suffering ex-employees of L.I.C of India are still awaiting the remaining answers, with bated breath. And of course, payment of our dues with the requisite accrued interest!
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