FEDERATION
OF RETIRED LIC CLASS I OFFICERS' ASSOCIATIONS
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Acting
President :
Shri P.P.Dhamija
R-6/104,
Raj Nagar,
GHAZIABAD
– 201002.
Tel:
0120-4107104 / 9810186067
Email
Id – premdhamija38@gmail.com
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General
Secretary : D
Krishnan
No.6/1,
Sreshta Riverside Apartments,
Wood
Creek Road, Nandambakkam, Chennai - 600089
Tel
: 9176635967 / 044 42850049.
Email
Id - dkrishnan1@gmail.com
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circular No.DK/63
19-05-2021
Dear
Friends,
I thought a rather
peculiar situation has suddenly come up, pointing to an area, where
we perhaps need to be alert and tighten up. Yes, I am talking about
Membership of our Associations, and our being not too vigilant, in
bringing into our fold, those who are newly/already retired. I do
know of some units amongst us, who systematically work on the List of
Retiring Officers in their HQ Divisions of LIC, and approach them
with the necessary formalities in right time, to make them part of
us. But there are also Units of ours, where this aspect is not in
their active consideration, resulting in a number of Retired Officers
of LIC, just being left alone without their being brought in.
As all of you know,
our Federation is very actively following up on the problems being
faced by the Retired Officers. If some of them are left out from our
membership, we are still fighting for their cause, and their
remaining out of our fold, becomes a weakness for us. We have,
over the years, learnt it the hard way, that nothing ever gets done
for us, without a sustained action at the All-India level. Then why
leave the newer Retirees out, when legitimately, they should be part
of us, because all their future interests are part of our goals in
the Federation?
The sudden situation
I have referred to in the beginning of this Circular, happens to be a
Circular issued on the 18th May 2021, by the
in-service Federation of Class I Officers, seeking Life Membership
from Retirees, in the Officers’ Cadre! They have asked for the
Retiree Officers to join in, as Life Members, paying a one-time Entry
Fee of Rs 5000/-!
It is a fact that we
have been keeping a good working relationship with the In-Service
Officers’ Federation all through. I remember their General
Secretary being invited during our Annual General Body Meetings, and
in the speeches made on such occasions, the GS of Class I Federation,
has been invariably expressing solidarity with us on all matters of
concern to the Retired Officers, and promising to go along with us on
areas of common concern.
We had never any
doubts regarding any plans for the in-service Federation to come in
into our areas of operation, crossing the lines, which are pretty
clear. Even now, I personally do not believe they have any such ideas
of crossing over into our territory, in a show of contest with us
where the interests of the Retired Officers are concerned. Though I
do not look at this sudden call from them, to the Retired Officers,
as anything more than an attempt to garner some amount of money from
those Retiree Officers who have now received lump sum Arrears, we
still need to take this as a wake -up call, to become alert, in
enlisting into our fold, all Officers who are retiring. I would
therefore like to call upon our Associations to be active in
enlisting all the Retired Officers, which alone will give the
Retiring Officers a feeling of a sense of belonging to this group,
for all their future needs. The old saying, ‘Eternal Vigilance is
the Price of Liberty’ holds good here in a very real way.
Meanwhile,
I have already written to the General Secretary of the In-service
Federation, asking him to withdraw the call for any type of
Membership of Officers who are Retired, as we are there to fulfil
that role for them. I do hope this matter gets sorted out early, so
that the erstwhile goodwill and relationship between the two
Organizations gets back on track, instead of providing Threat
Perceptions, which are not in the interests of both.
It hardly needs to
be stated here that the call given by the in-service Federation
should not be heeded to by our members as such a Membership will not
serve any purpose of theirs, as we are already in business there.
Greetings to all
D.Krishnan.
General
Secretary
