MY DEAR FRIENDS,
======================================== A TINY TRIBUTE IN REMINISCENCE OF GREAT WARRIORS ON THE EVE OF REPUBLIC DAY WITH A CONTEXTUAL REFERENCE TO BANK EMPLOYEES / PENSIONERS
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TOUGH TIMES NEVER LAST ....
BUT TOUGH PEOPLE DO ALWAYS ......
REFERRING TO THE ABOVE, I DESIRE TO SHARE THE FOLLOWING COMMUNICATION THAT I CAME ACROSS IN THE SOCIAL MEDIA:
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When Dr.Abdul Kalam was the President, he visited Coonoor. On reaching, he came to know that Field Marshall Sam Manekshaw was in the Military Hospital there. Dr.Kalam wanted to visit Sam, which was unscheduled. Arrangements were made. At the bedside, Kalam spent abt 15 minutes talking to Sam & enquiring abt his health.
Just before leaving Kalam asked Sam "Are you comfortable? Is there anything I cld do? Do you have any grievance? or any requirement that wld make you more comfortable?"
Sam said "Yes Yr Excellency, I hv one grievance". Shocked with concern & anguish , Kalam asked him what it was .
Sam replied" Sir, my grievance is that I am not able to get up & Salute my most respected President of my beloved country". Kalam held Sam's hand as both were in tears.
But the remaining part of the tale with regarding this meeting is that Sam did tell APJ that he was not paid the pension of the Field Marshall’s rank till then, for nearly twenty years.
An aghast President went to Delhi and passed the pension with arrears within a week and sent the cheque of nearly Rs.1.25 crores through the Defence Secretary by a special plane to Wellington, Ooty, where Sam was ailing.
That is the greatness of APJ. But then Sam received the cheque and promptly donated it to the Army Relief fund.
Whom will you salute now? Indeed those real heroes are missing today.
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IN WHAT WAY THE ABOVE EPISODE IS RELEVANT TO US , AS BANK EMPLOYEES / PENSIONERS...???...
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1 message Srinivasa Murti Devulapalli <devulapallimurti@gmail.com>
17 December 2020 at 05:44
To:
ALL MY FRIENDS ON THE MAILING LIST.....
MY DEAR FRIENDS,
MY HEARTY GREETINGS TO THE RETIREE FRATERNITY ON THE EVE OF PENSIONERS' DAY - TODAY -Ie. 17th. DECEMBER.
IN FACT, DEFENCE PERSONNEL HAVE BEEN OUR TORCH- BEARERS WHO FOUGHT RE- LENTLESSLY FOR THE CAUSE OF THE PENSIONERS AS A WHOLE.
LEGEND CRUSADER COM. D S NAKARA WHO FOUGHT A LONG DRAWN LEGAL BATTLE IS ALSO FROM THE DEFENCE SERVICES…
D.S.NAKARA’S CASE HAS BECOME A “THUMB RULE” FOR MANY JUDGEMENTS PASSED BY THE APEX COURT IN MANY CASES CONCERNING THE RETIREES.
THIS HISTORICAL JUDGMENT WAS PRONOUNCED ON 17th. DECEMBER, 1982 AND THIS IS THE REASON WHY 17th. DEC. IS CHOSEN AS “PENSIONER’ DAY” AND IS BEING OBSERVED BY VARIOUS PENSIONERS’ ORGANISATIONS IN INDIA.
AS PER THE TIMES OF INDIA NEWS OF 04 FEB.1996, IT IS PLACED IN THE GUINNESS BOOK OF WORLD RECORD, AS , BY THIS JUDGMENT 20 LAKHS OF PENSIONERS BENEFITED (IT MAY BE ABOVE (60) SIXTY LAKHS BY NOW)
BY VIRTUE OF THIS FAMOUS JUDGMENT ALONE, WE HAVE BEEN GETTING PENSION AS A MATTER OF RIGHT - BE IT OUR 1616-1684 DA CASE, REST- ORATION OF 5 YEAR NOTIONAL SERVICE, 2ND. PENSION OPTION , PENSION TO THE RESIGNEES, 100/% DA, ARREARS ON COMMUTATION.. Etc.
THAT APART......
IN 1973, THE INDIRAGANDHI- LED CONGRESS (I) GOVERNMENT TERMINATED "ONE RANK ONE PENSION" - THE BASIS FOR DECIDING PENSION OF THE INDIAN ARMED FORCES PERSONNEL -- WHICH HAS BEEN IN VOGUE FOR 26 YEARS SINCE INDE- PENDENCE, THROUGH AN EX-PARTE ADMINISTRATIVE ORDER- SHORTLY AFTER FIELD MARSHAL SHFJ MANEKSHAW RETIRED (WHO HAS BEEN RESISTING THE ILLCON- CEIVED MOVE ALL ALONG), TO DECREASE ARMED FORCES PENSIONS BY 20-40%, AND INCREASE CIVILIAN PENSIONS BY 20% WITHOUT CONSULTING ARMED FORCES HEAD- QUARTERS.
(HAND WORK OF BUREAU- CRACY WHO PLAYED HAVOC AND...
IT'S THE SAME BUREAUCRACY WHO ALSO DILUTED THE SPIRIT OF PILLAI COMMITTEE -(PCR,) RECOMMENDATIONS FOR BANK OFFICERS)
THIS GLARING DISPARITY METED OUT AGAINST THE ARMED FORCES IGNITED THEIR RESENTMENT AMONG THE RANK AND FILE THAT ULTIMATELY CULMINATED INTO MASSIVE AGITATIONAL PROGRAMMES…
(On 15 June, ex-servicemen, despairing of BJP promises, commenced nationwide protests, and hunger strikes - Members of the Ex-Servicemen Welfare Union held a dharna and blocked highways against their long-pending demands including one rank, one pension and others.Even some protestors, who are Ex-Servicemen, threatened to resort to Rail Roko (Stop Trains) agitation).
ULTIMATELY MODI'S GOVERN- MENT HAD TO CONCEDE TO THE MOUNTING PRESSURE TO RESTORE THE LONG AWAITED "OROP" FOR THE DEFENCE PERSONNEL.
- A SUCCESS STORY....
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1KwYMKDUT5bwsNZXagxDa3Wk60jHHfwl8/view?usp=sharing
IN THE ABOVE BACKDROP, I INVITE YOUR ATTENTION TO THE RECENT REMARKS MADE BY OUR HON'BLE FM SMT. NIRMALA SITHARAMANJI IN HER RECENT INTERVIEW IN BUSINESS LINE FOLLOWED BY , HER FURTHER REITERATING THE SAME REMARKS DURING HER INAUGURAL ADDRESS AT THE AGM OF IBA.
THEREFORE FRIENDS,
I CAN CONFIDENTLY SAY THAT....
SURMOUNTING ALL THE HURDLES, THINGS ARE MOVING IN PROPER DIRECTION AS ENVISAGED.
THEREFORE, LET US BE CONFIDENT ENOUGH TO SECURE OUR LONG AWAITED PENSION UPDATION AT THE EARLIEST...
WITH THE DIVINE BLESSINGS OF MATHA KANAKA DURGA ...ABODE इन्द्रकीलाद्रि - विजयवाद INDRAKEELADRI- VIJAYAWADA.
“|| यतो धर्मस्ततो जयः ||”IS THE ULTIMATE......
I remain - Yours,
దేవులపల్లిశ్రీనివాసమూర్తి/
Devulapalli Srinivasa Murti.
DEC. 17, 2020
VIJAYAWADA 521108
devulapallimurti@gmail.com
9989318300
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d s murti
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UNQUOTE:
REMINISCENSING WITH GREAT GRATITUDE TO ALL THOSE WARRIORS WHO SACRIFICED THEIR LIVES FOR OUR COUNTRY....
JAI HIND....
I remain - yours ,
దేవులపల్లి శ్రీనివాస మూర్తి/
Devulapalli Srinivasa Murti
January 27, 2021
Ramavarappadu (po)
VIJAYAWADA 521108
9989318300