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| The rights and privileges of pensioners. | | | R.C Gupta | 6/18/2010 11:32:15 PM |
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The concept of granting pension to retiring personnel actually got birth long centuries back when the English Rulers and law-makers consciously, graciously and judicially brooded over this matter taking notice of the socio-economic, heath and other conditions such beneficiaries were and or today subjected to while passing the last days of life. Such situations being faced by the retiring personnel differ form country to country. In some of the countries in the world, special schemes stood introduced for the welfare of pensioners to enable them to have comfortable remaining time of life when such personnel suffer several disadvantages because of advancing age, engrossed in multiple health complexities, such complexities are dominant in Indian society where mostly, the pensioners feel neglected- neglected by their families, relatives, members of the society and in particular by the Rulers, Administrators, Law—makers, who being quite young, healthy , sound economically, social status etc. care very little or ignore in every respect the services the retired persons have given to the Nation. Some times and somewhere, the contributions made by the retired personnel are followed by the new generation to render their administrative apparatus effective with desired degree of mobility within their establishments. But generally, nobody remembers or appreciates such contributions, whatsoever would have been from the retired personnel. It also happens that whenever any retired person, whatsoever position or high status he had enjoyed while in service, is not even recognized by the successors in officer and when the retiree is not offered a chair to sit in that very office even by seniors or juniors, nobody can understand the fathom of wound he gets in his mind when he forgets to seek help either for himself or any member of his family. Perhaps, the young generation or the successors in officer believe that they would never retire. At present, the working culture has so much deteriorated that nobody is interested to listen to the woes of one’s retied colleague, officer etc. the same is the approach with our rulers, administrators, Law makers, custodian and guardians of law do not hesitate to jeer at the pensioners. One instance of such a nature is mentioned here. Once Mr. ‘B’ a retired secretary of health department, wanted to see the health minister at Latter’s residence but nobody allowed him to enter the Visitors. Hall and was advised to see the Minister in officer at civil secretariat where it is really difficult to go in view of tight security. Some how, the retired secretary went to the civil secretariat, handed over his I-Care to the orderly passed it on to the Senor private secretary whose name w2as written as Ulloo Singh. Ulloo Singh had actually been drawn from a Co-Operative Society where he was working as a Salesman and brother-in-law of the Minister. The said Private Secretary reluctantly allowed the retired officer with a note of caution to brief the Minister within one minute as he was over-busy. When the retied officer entered the chamber of the Minister, at that time, the Minister was actually reading a novel titled DEEMAK “written in Urdu. ‘Deemak’ is a Punjabi word which means white insect which consumes the wood. On the left side of the Minister, another Novel, in Urdu titled HANSTEY AZAKHTM was also lying. When the Minister noticed White haired person standing before him, he immediately closed the Novel and hurriedly kept beneath a teapoy. The Minister actually did not want any person to disturb him. When the retired secretary put his I-Card before the Minister and bowed his head, the Minister said, “Gentleman, what do you want, please tell me immediately as he was going to Chief Minister or Prime Minister?” the retired secretary said, “Sir, I am not getting my due pension due to some hurdles created by your health Department.” The minister said, “Go to Heath Department and then he laughed. While laughing, the spit full of pan-chewing fell out from his face which damaged the white shirt and pant of the retired officer. Pan-chewing material also spread on white-hair and his dress and white hair looked as if painted with unique colour from Aurangabad famous for dueing. The retired secretary came out of the Minister’s chamber where he noticed the orderly and the senior private secretary quarreling and abusing each other using the word. “You are donkey, you are too donkey” when the Minister heard such words, he came out and heard them hearing the same words and then the Minister said, “ I am a great donkey because I have appointed two donkeys in my officer.” An English poet once noticed that level of efficiency and accountability to law had deteriorated in Egypt Secretariat, once know as the strongest administrative hold in the world. The said poet lamented while writing a poem saying-
“Lions and Lizards are living
… where king Jamshed was born to rule…”
What kind of our administrative apparatus today is, it is difficult to comment because the woes and suffering of the common man depict deplorable and deteriorating situation. Adverting to the burning issue of the Pensioners, the present approach of our Rulers, Politicians, law-makers etc. has undergone tremendous change. Pay commissions are appointed at county/state level which create an atmosphere for generating hopes for better pay structure to the employees and also solace to the pensioners. The pensioners start dreaming of getting something good with future plans of spending money on their treatments medical check up etc. and also for clearing their liabilities like electric bills, housing loans, interests etc in other words, the pensions wait for the goof outcome from such accouchements. When the recommendations of pay commissions are accepted at the whims and captive of the rulers, politicians, Administrators, they watch their own interests and groups and when the question of any benefits comes for the pensioners, the administration starts projecting bankruptcy advancing another plea that development activities could not be haulted by accommodating the pensioners. In our society, the rulers, politicians spend crores and crores of rupees on un-productive sides and at times, the controller and auditor general of India raised objections to such huge expenses such as advancing crores and crores of rupees to elected nominated representative for spending at their wills, purchasing TV’s Lap-Tops and so on. Lap tops had never been used by them excepting play-way games for their children, grand children etc. it will not be a surprising for any one to know that once a Minister kept shoes and chaples inside refrigerator on the wrong conception that it was plastic made almirah with columns for shoes, chaples for his family. This is my India and I love my India. I, on behalf of Pensioners, request the Government to remodel their thinking and policies and extend the benefit of Pay Revision under Sixth Pay Commission’s recommendation so that this dejected class of citizens of free India could have a comfortable sigh of relief from the present distress and strains and pass comfortable last days of life and least observing that one day, they too will enter old-age and perhaps their family may force them to take shelter in some homes cursing the life there.
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