Suggestions to 7CPC , from ISCF

Ref :  Suggestions to 7CPC , from ISRO Senior Citizens Forum

The following points among the 16 point memorandum to 7CPC are worth noting. These are unique suggestions, which it seems other  unions/associations have not  raised.

Suggestion #5 :    20% increase in Pension  for ISRO, DAE, and DRDO retirees, in recognition of their exemplary work.

ISRO (Dept.of Space)  is the Organisation which contributed the most  for our Nation. It’s beyond any quantifying efforts , and Cost-Benefit analyses. ISRO did substantially in   (i) elevating our Nation’s pride among world Nations  (ii)  our National economy, by way of a revolution in developing every field of  Telecom, Agriculture, Rural Development, Education, Defense, Industry, Disaster management, and many more. Today, ISRO influences and improves the life of every Indian. ISRO  did (and continues to do ) a lot for the Nation and its citizens.

DAE and DRDO also did their best in their respective areas.

We, ISRO retirees,  are proud of the fact that we did it all. We built the foundations and developed a lot high on it.  The current generation certainly draws the benefits of what we did, and they continue to build on that. 

As you may be aware, the current employees of ISRO are paid 20% extra on their pay (as a special performance allowance).  We, ISRO retirees, feel that we too are highly worthy of getting a special additional  pension. Pension, being small compared to the present pay and allowances, we request that 7CPC may recommend and approve an additional pension of  atleast  50% of the  basic pension. It would be appropriate and just to pay us this additional pension, in consideration of the great National achievements we contributed to.

Suggestion #15 :         Gratuity – Annual incrementing method for upper limit.

Though this does not apply to the pensioners, we feel it just to smoothen the  changes/increase in the upper limit of  Gratuity (if not the ceiling is removed by 7CPC). Moreover, this is essential to improve the satisfaction level of retirees.

Suggestion #16 :         High difference in the Pay Scales (and Min pension) of adjacent grades of   Scientist/Engineer SE, and Scientist/Engineer SF ( S-23 and S-24).

The following table is a computation showing the change in Minimum Pension of various scales with respect to  the next scale.

Scale	PayBand	Min Pension	% less than the succeeding scale	% more than the  preceding scale
S-1	-1S	3500	0.00
S-2	-1S	3500	0.00	0.00
S-2A	-1S	3500	0.00	0.00
S-3	-1S	3500	4.50	0.00
S-4	PB-1	3665	5.78	4.71
S-5	PB-1	3890	3.47	6.14
S-6	PB-1	4030	18.09	3.60
S-7	PB-1	4920	11.91	22.08
S-8	PB-1	5585	17.26	13.52
S-9	PB-2	6750	6.44	20.86
S-10	PB-2	7215	11.42	6.89
S-11	PB-2	8145	0.00	12.89
S-12	PB-2	8145	11.76	0.00
S-13	PB-2	9230	1.55	13.32
S-14	PB-2	9375	7.54	1.57
S-15	PB-2	10140	8.40	8.16
S-16	PB-3	11070	0.00	9.17
S-17	PB-3	11070	14.22	0.00
S-18	PB-3	12905	-2.42	16.58
S-19	PB-3	12600	4.58	-2.36
S-20	PB-3	13205	11.73	4.80
S-21	PB-3	14960	4.47	13.29
S-22	PB-3	15660	-4.68	4.68
S-23	PB-3	14960	35.10	-4.47
S-24	PB-4	23050	4.73	54.08
S-25	PB-4	24195	0.41	4.97
S-26	PB-4	24295	0.00	0.41
S-27	PB-4	24295	-2.51	0.00
S-28	PB-4	23700	13.35	-2.45
S-29	PB-4	27350	18.36	15.40
S-30	HAG	33500	11.26	22.49
S-31	HAG	37750	2.91	12.69
S-32	HAG	38883	2.79	3.00
S-33	APEX	40000	11.11	2.87
S-34	CAB.SEC	45000		12.50

The large difference in Minimum Pension of S23 and S24 may be noted. This  corresponds to change in PayBand of PB-3 to PB-4.  Such large difference does not exist in other transitions in PayBands.  It is suggested that the PayScale (and hence minimum pension ) of  S23 (Sci/Engineer SE) be increased  to moderate the large difference.

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