PUDUCHERRY: The JIPMER Anti-Autonomy People’s Action Committee has warned of an agitation against Union Minister of State for PMO and pension V Narayanasamy both in New Delhi and Puducherry for his “irresponsive stand” in providing Central pensionary benefits (including family pension), after JIPMER became an autonomous institution through an act of Parliament on July 14, 2008.Briefing mediapersons at a press conference on Friday, T Murugan, president of the committee, and C H Balamohanan, general secretary, said that as per the assurance given by the Union Health Ministry to the department-related Parliamentary Standing Committee on Health and Family Welfare that the absorbed employees of JIPMER, on retirement, would be eligible for pension from the Central government as per extent rules in force.Subsequently, Union Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad had also written to Narayanasamy regarding the matter, but he had not taken necessary measures to grant pension, said Murugan.It was required to expedite the desired amendment to Rule 37-A of CCS (pension) rules to ensure release of pensionary benefits out of consolidated fund of the Government of India to the retiring employees who joined the institution before January 1, 2004.The stand taken by the Department of Pension and Pensioner’s Welfare not to amend Rule 37-A on the same lines, as was done earlier for Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) employees, would affect the welfare of as many as 1,644 JIPMER employees , who would have otherwise got the pension out of the consolidated fund of India if the government had not decided to convert JIPMER into an autonomous institution, Azad stated in his letter to Narayanasamy.Already the rule was amended for the Department of Telecom Services and Telecom Operations and there was no reason why the same benefit could not be extended to the absorbed employees of JIPMER, Puducherry, he asked.
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