MINUTES
OF THE MEETING HELD ON 24 th SEPTEMBER, 2012 REGARDING REVISION OF PPOs FOR
PRE-2006 PENSIONERS/FAMILY PENSIONERS INCLUDING PRE-1990 PENSIONERS/FAMILY
PENSIONERS
A meeting was held on 28th August,
2012 at 11:30 AM in the Conference Room, 5th Floor, Sardar Patel Bhavan, New
Delhi under the Chairmanship of Shri Sanjay Kothari, Secretary (Pension,
AR& PG) with the officials of 15 Department Ministries having maximum number
of unrevised Pension Payment Orders (PPOs) pertaining to pre-2006 pensioner
family pensioners. In follow-up to that meeting, another meeting of the next 15
Ministries/Departments was taken by Secretary (Pension, AR&PG) on 24th
September, 2012 at the same venue. The objective of these meetings was to
review the progress made by these Ministries/Departments in the revision of
PPOs in respect of pre-2006 pensioners/family pensioners including pre-1990
cases.
2. The list of
participants is at Annexure — I .
3. Opening the
discussion, Secretary (Pension, AR & PG) expressed his concern that cases
of revision of PPOs of pre-2006 pensioners were still pending for a long time.
He suggested that a mechanism of weekly/bi-weekly/monthly meetings at the Secretary
level in the various Ministries may be evolved to monitor these cases. He also
suggested that pensioners’ associations may be asked to help in obtaining
information, wherever necessary, from the pensioner.
4. Secretary
(Pension, AR & PG) then took up the Ministry-wise figures. No one was
available from the Ministry of Human Resources Development, which has the
largest number of pending cases. The representative of Ministry of Coal
informed that most of the employees are PSU absorbees and thus these cases are
to be done manual I y which is taking time. Secondly, there are a number of
cases where Annexure III had not been received from the banks Chief Controller
(Pension) informed that CPAO will send the information available from the
e-scroll of such pensioners/family pensioners whose PPOs have not been revised
to the concerned authorities by 30th September. With this information the
Annexure III in respect of almost all pensioner family pensioners belonging to
all Ministries/Departments will become available. Ministry of Coal also
informed that in many cases the Annexure III sent to the Office of Coal
Controller are pending with them. Secretary (Pension) desired that the matter
may be taken up the matter with Secretary (Coal). Ministry of Coal also informed
that in respect of pre-1990 cases there are limitations of non
availability of records. Secretary (Pension) expressed that it must be a
problem common to all Ministries/Departments. He urged all to use corroborative
evidence available in the permanent service records of the organization such as
Pay Bill Registers etc. to overcome this problem. Ministry of Coal agreed that
by the end of December 2012 they would be able to revise all pre- 2006 PPOs and
by March 2013 they would revise all pre-1990 PPOs.
5. There was no
representative from the Ministry of Commerce & Industry, Director General
of Supplies and Disposals and Ministry of Environment & Forests The cases
of remaining Ministries/Departments were taken up. Ministry of
Agriculture informed that the cumulative records of the 3 departments, viz.,
Department of Agriculture & Cooperation, Animal Husbandry and Agricultural
Research and Education were not available. He also said that pension records of
some pre-2006 pensioners had been destroyed in a fire in one of the Departments
They are trying to reconstitute the records and revise the PPOs as early as
possible. Ministry of Textiles also wanted their figures to be segregated from
that of D/o Commerce. Ministry of Shipping intimated that majority pending
cases were from the Port Cities of Mumbai, Chennai and Kolkata It was seen that
all Ministries/Departments are facing similar
problems such as lack of
coordination and monitoring of the progress where there are different agencies
that possess the PPOs. Secretary (Pension) emphasized that there is a strong
need for a monitoring mechanism such as weekly/bi-weekly/monthly meetings
Ministries were also asked to reconcile their cases with the cases available on
CPAO’s website.
6. All
Ministries/Departments agreed to revising majority of pre-2006 PPOs by December
2012 and pre-1990 PPOs by March 2013.
7. Secretary
(Pension, AR & PG) suggested that the authorities concerned should consult
the CPAO whenever they come across a problem. He stated that he would be
writing to all the Secretaries concerned aski ng them to review the pendency
regularly.
8. The meeting
ended with a vote of thanks to the Chairs
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