Tuesday, November 8, 2011

Why should govt pay pension to only those who retire form govt service?

Pension is paid to Govt servants after they retire, good. But it is paid to ex governent employees out of state tax revenue to which even those contribute who do not work in goverment. Even the politicians ex MLA MP who just serve for a few years are given pension. There could be many government retired employees who had raised huge estates / capital reserves during their service days even when they were always demanding increase in dearness allownace. Dearness allowance is paid for easing survival and not for raising reserves. Hence from where do the reserves come ? Government employees feel it below dignity to send their children to Government schools and even attending government hospitals for health cover. Are they very rich? Even a Director School Education or Secretary School education living in cities does not send his children to government schools, do they deserve to remain in service and get pension on retirement , they are like that Halwaee who preferred to eat sweets from some other shop and not from his own. After VIth pay commission it has noted that some ex employees who retired about 15 years back are getting pension nearly 2.5 times the salary they were getting at the time of retirement. Some cases are there where pesioners have got pension for about 40 years where as they served for only 30 years. The concept behind pension to governemt servants who are debarred from any private enterprise / business participation during service was very very sacred but now since the government machinery is not delivering and the social services ( education,health, security, law& order, revenue records,) provided by government through government servant too are not yielding, the life of people has become difficult. These days many government servants who held non yielding senior positions are getting pension may be Rs.30000 to Rs.40000 pm which is like some one getting interest income from a fixed deposit in bank as large as Rs.40 to 50 Lac. Think over. There are many senior citizens who retire from private jobs and live miserable life without pension. Their savings too are meagre in most of the cases. So they have to keep on working till they finally "collapse". So government must come up with a security system for payment of pension to those who work in the private sector and have this way or that way contributed to tax revenue during their active days. The pension to every senior citizen should not be less than Rs.10000 per month at todays norms with growing material and health needs as is being particularly kept in view by the Pay Commissions while deciding the matters regarding governemnt servants. The position of those retiring from government public sector PSU too is bad. The provision of contributory provident fund is too meagre before the provision of Pension being paid to Governemnt employees and incase it is to match the magnitude of pension benefits that government servants have CPF by employer has to be not less than 25% to 30 % of the salary. Further in the private sector the part of wage amount qualifying for the CPF( 10%) is small and hence the CPF provides even lesser security to tose in private sector than it provides to PSU ex employess. Daya Sagar , social activist

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