DEAR FRIENDS, Following appeal of mine is signed and submitted to the following VVIPs enunciating the facts as to how we have been subjected to harassment by the Bank Managements represented by the IBA and the Unions represented by UFBU and appealing for their kind intervention) to bring us solace.... 01. His Excellency Sri Pranab Mukherjee, 02. Hon'ble Prime Minister Sri Narendramodi , 03. All the council of ministers of the union cabinet, 04. All the members of the National Executive Committee of the party in power -viz : BJP; 05. All the Members of the Banks Board Bureau, 06. The Chief Justice and all other judges of the Supreme Court, 07. Comptroller and Auditor General of India and some of its important officers, 08. Reserve Bank of India, 09. Members of the CVC/CBI/DRI, 10. Entire members of the secretariat of MOF, PMO, President etc. 11. CMDs of all PSBs, 12. All the members of the Press Council and a few accredited journalists, 13. All the state Governors 14. and all state CMs (aggregating to over 800 in number in all): QUOTE BY SPEED POST/COURIER ------------------------------------- Respected Sir, SUBJECT: PERPETRATED FRAUD COMMITTED BY THE BANK MANAGEMENTS REPRESENTED BY INDIAN BANKS ASSOCIATION (IBA) & THE BANK UNIONS REPRESENTED BY UFBU RESULTED IN THE DENIAL OF LEGITIMATE COMPENSATION AGAINST INFLATION TO THE RETIRED BANK PERSONNEL OF PRE-2002 & PERIODICAL REVISION OF PENSION ---------------------------------- At the outset, I take pleasure to introduce myself as D. Srinivasa Murti (s/o late Devulapalli Subrahmanya Sastri ) aged about 69years, retired as Manager (Middle Management) from Syndicate Bank - one of the premiere Banking Institutions in the Public Sector . It is the only bank that took its birth in a remote rural village way back, in 1925. I feel proud to be identified as its retired employee with about 30 years of active service since 1972 (Emp.No.127259) till my retirement in 2001 We are hard hit by inflation...having been retired from the service 15-20 years ago.....with static pension income - thus have been deprived of a decent/dignified living in the society at this fag end of our lives. The money held in trust has been mismanaged by banks in the process of denying due pension with updation as provided in regulation 56 of Pension Regulations. The Pension Fund need not service employees who are recruited after 01.04.2010 who are governed by PFRDA Scheme and a rapidly growing Pension Fund is meaningless and illogical. By mere administrative orders (though not maintainable in law), IBA has been, on several instances deliberately over ruled/ by passed/violated the provisions/clauses of the settlements made under ID act depriving a meagre section of the retirees, like us, of their legitimate claims- Quite Obviously, with the “tacit approval” of the unions viz.UFBU, that goes without saying. You may be aware sir, that ours is a fund based pension scheme with the employees contribution from out of their salaries every month as also the matching contributions from the employers towards the Pension Corpus which is supposed to be invested in the approved Government Securities to make it self-sufficient for smooth servicing of the scheme as envisaged by the settlement signed under the ID Act . The responsibility of managing/servicing the pension corpus, is vested in the hands of the respective boards of trustees formed by the concerned banks who are to take the best interest of the beneficiaries of the Trust.... .......But I am apprehensive of the following: * Are bank managements crediting their matching contributions towards the Pension corpus on monthly basis as is being deducted from the serving employees...? (while disbursing their monthly salaries? – ) * Whether Investments of pension corpus are in conformity with the terms of the pension settlement as originally signed under the ID Act? * Whether the interest loss to the Pension Funds for retirees due to the amortisation of Pension cost of banks over 5 years in the IXth BPS, is made good ? ..else, Is it not an act of -- misappropriation at the corporate level ?(embezzlement of funds) – THOUGH IT BEARS THE POST RATIFICATION BY THE RBI? Supposing, the same were to be indulged by any erring employee, for his/her Misconduct in a stray /isolated instance, he/she would have been sacked from the service mercilessly as per the service conditions !–Even for a paltry amount of involvement for that matter ! That being the case , Can the representatives of the unions on the respective pension trust boards plead for their “estoppels” from being guilty on par with the managements on the above logic? ONLY A THOROUGH INVESTIGATION BY ACCREDITED INSTITUTIONS LIKE CAG ALONE WILL BE ABLE TO BRING THE TRUTH TO THE SURFACE IN THE INTEREST OF THE INNOCENT RETIREES LIKE US. Notwithstanding the above....... Even the available resources in the Pension corpus as it is, can easily pay three to four times the present pension to all retirees without any pinch on their profits and without warranting the Government to make any additional budgetary allocation for it . FIGURES SPEAK BY THEMSELVES.......... ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Pension Fund details (Amount in Rs.Crores) All Public Sector Banks ( as on 31.03.2014) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Closing balance 1,58,782.61 Contributions received during the year 7,789.27 Income from investments 11,919.89 Actuarial gains 7,624.79 Total Accretions during the year 27,333.95 Pay out of benefits 9,998.06 Percentage of Pay out 36.57%* *(The Payout % has been on the steady decline in the successive years) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The money thus held in trust therefore, is certainly mismanaged by banks in the process of denying due pension with updation as provided in regulation #56 of Pension Regulations. The Pension Fund need not service those employees who are recruited after 01.04.2010 who are governed by PFRDA Scheme and a rapidly growing Pension Fund is therefore, meaningless and illogical. FROM THE ABOVE, IT IS CLEARLY EVIDENT THAT........ IT’S ONLY THE EGOISTIC STANCE TAKEN BY BOTH IBA AND UFBU THAT ALONE IS COMING IN THE WAY OF OUR WELLBEING AS THE BENEFICIARIES OF THE PENSION TRUST– THIS EXACTLY IS THE ONLY CRUX OF THE PROBLEM SIR. We are indeed hard-hit by inflation as our monthly pension remaining static since the day we retired from the services very long ago. Many of our colleagues attained their Heavenly abode and We still remain waiting for our turn to meet them Sirs, you are with high academic background, knowledgeable, with jurisprudence- above all, statesmen of forthright expression. I therefore, I volunteered to place before you the grievances as detailed out in the enclosed appeal, and seek Your kind intervention/help to bring us solace. I do certainly feel privileged sir, if your can carve out some of your valuable time out of tight busy schedule, for making my pleadings to you - in person . In all humility, I make my above humble submissions to you sir. With Greetings and Regards on the eve of Sri HeviLambi Ugadi -New Year and eagerly looking forward from you for a word and deed of solace... I remain sir, Yours sincerely, sd./- (D S MURTI) Date: April 24, 2017 VIJAYAWADA 521108 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cmdl9V7Yl98 Online petition to :His Excellency , president of India and Hon’ble Prime Minister of India LINK TO MY ABOVE PETITION: https://www.change.org/p/hon-ble-prime-minister-of-india-sri-narendra-modi-plight-of-the-bank-retirees-urgency-to-constitute-banking-pay-commission?recruiter =20599606&utm_source=share_petition&utm_medium=facebook&utm_campaign=share_for_starters_page&utm_term=des-lg-41505-no_msg____________________ D S MURTI (Retd.Manager-Syndicate Bank): 3-23 (GF:1) ‘RAGAMALIKA RESIDENCY’ , PLOT#37 SRI RAMA CO.OP HOUSING SOCIETY LAYOUT, NEAR CHINMAYA DHYANA MANDIRAM, RAMAVARAPPADU (PO): VIJAYAWADA 521108 (AP) devulapallimurti@gmail.com ; 0866-2843298 ; 9989318300