Excelsior Correspondent
NEW DELHI, Aug 4: Led by two senior Members of Parliament, C.P. Joshi and Om Birla, a delegation of employees of the Nuclear Power Corporation of India Ltd. (NPCIL), which functions under the auspices of Department of Atomic Energy, Government of India, called on Union Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Development of North Eastern Region (DoNER), MoS PMO, Personnel, Public Grievances, Pensions, Atomic Energy and Space, Dr Jitendra Singh and sought his intervention for rationalizing the pension benefits available to them.
In a memorandum submitted to the Minister by Nirmal Kumar Jain, General Secretary, Rajasthan Atomic Power Labour Union and other members of delegation,it was stated that though the NPCIL was established in 1987 and currently has over 11,583 employees working under it, yet many of the benefits available to employees in other departments of the Government and other Public Sector Units (PSUs) are not available to them. In this regard, they particularly referred to the absence of any proper pension scheme for them.
The memorandum also alleged that this was an anti-labour policy which has led to tremendous degree of insecurity among the employees of the organization. It recalled that as a follow-up to their repeated representations, a Pension Committee was constituted in 2004 but till date, no definite outcome is visible.
The memorandum demanded that the National Pension Scheme (NPS) introduced by DoPT is quite useful and this scheme should be made available to employees of NPCIL as well without laying the condition that on availing the NPS benefit, an employee would have to surrender the EPF scheme. They stressed that NPS Corporate Sector model will not only ensure social security for the NPCIL officials, but will also motivate them to perform better.
Dr Jitendra Singh gave a patient hearing to the delegation and said that the issue will sought to be viewed with possible coordination between the NPCIL which is part of Department of Atomic Energy and DoPT which is part of the Ministry of Personnel.
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