Transfer GP Fund
to banks-II
Sir,
This has reference
to the letters of M/S Ashok Kumar Lalpuri and
Sain Dass Sumbaria under the caption:
"Computerise G P Fund
Organisation"-Daily Excelsior Mail Col.
dated May 26, 2001.
Lord Alfred
Tennyson said: "Men may come and men may go
but I shall go on for ever." Same is true of
our Funds Organisation. Computering or no
computerising, the lethargy and incompetence that
is the hall mark of our Funds Organisation shall
continue to dominate the vital of the said
Organisation. The only solution to this canceric
malady is going back to April 1986 and handing
over the entire records of the G,P, Fund
Department to the Accountant General Jammu and
Kashmir with an unrest request that' in future we
shall not repeat the mistake of castigating you
for not keeping our G P Fund record straight. We
have learnt lessons from our mistakes."
Further we should quote Emerson to him:
"Experience is a great school but its fees
are heavy. "We have paid the fees in terms
of the sufferings each subscriber has undergone
by seeing his entire G P Fund records in absolute
pell-mell may in doledrums. I am reminded the way
Accountant General reconstructed the entire
records of the G P Fund subscribers when the
entire records of the Account General's office
were consumed by the devastating fire in his
office on March 23, 1977. This is history in
itself.
I am not surprised
that Mr. Sain Dass Sumbaria has once again come
to the defence of the said organisation. Why
should he not come to its defence? It is his
brain child, I repeat. I want to tell him that
the officers of the said Organisation are
themselves responsible for updating the records.
Let alone updating the records even issuance of G
P Fund Schedules on due dates has become a rare
commodity. Prima-facie the department has become
defunct. Retirees are crying hoarse for their
final withdrawals and the in-service people are
left high and dry. What more proof is needed to
declare this department a heavy drain on the
fragile resources of the State.
Let the officers
of the G P Fund wing of the Organisation take due
note of the fact that by denying the credits to
the subscribers they are violating the
constitutional rights of the concerned as
guaranteed under Article 300a of the constitution
of India. Let them read Rule-8(1) of the General
Provident Fund Rules Samvat 1981(1924 AD) as
amended by SRO-385 dated 15.9.1966 and SRO-152
dated 11.4.1967. The Rule says: "Subject to
the provisions of this rule, the sum which
accumulates to the credit of a subscriber will,
when he quits his service becomes his private
property and will be handed over to him
unconditionally, on a written application from
him..."The words "Private
Property": "unconditionally" are
of great significance.
Yours etc..
P K Joseph Dhar,
Jammu
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