My nominee for RTI Awards-2009

Shri. Wajahat Habibullah, Chief Information Commissioner,

STORY OF AN ENCOUNTER

HOW THE COMMERCE MINISTRY VIOLATED THE CONSTITUTION!!!

I was a govt. employee of Export Inspection Agency-a statutory body under Commerce Ministry, covered by CCS Pension Rules of 1972.In 1994 over 700 employees opted for SVRS & govt. partly settled retirement benefits till 1997. We filed cases for not effecting full payment of attended benefits.

Simultaneously after 11years of my efforts I got an original circular of Commerce Ministry dt.21/05/1994 under RTI Act-2005 which exposed that the 1994-VRS scheme itself is not an approved one by the Nodal depts. Also the commerce ministry’s executive fiat which was circulated among employees was deliberately edited by the officials to cheat the employees. So the circular is NULL & VOID & the scheme is ILLEGAL as the Commerce Ministry has violated all the constitutional provisions.

From 2005 I have been approaching various govt. agencies for Justice. With no tangible solutions forthcoming I filed a fresh writ in Madras high court which is still pending. My efforts for a negotiated settlement also failed. My appeals to the Hon’ble PM-incharge of ministry of Personnel, Public Grievance & Pension, and the Hon’ble President-custodian of Pension Act-1871 did not receive the attention.

Pension is not a bounty and ministry officials cheated the employees by circulating an executive fiat which suppressed the facts to deprive our fundamental right to pension. When one time legislators demand pension, the govt. employees who have worked for over 20years have been fooled by the fraudulent SVRS-1994 circular.

As the RTI Act-2005 helped me to expose the Commerce Ministry’s fraud on employees I nominate Shri. Wajahat Habibullah,Chief Information Commissioner, on behalf of over 700 employees for the RTI Award-2009

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