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Dhanbad, Jan 8: Pensioners of Coal India Limited (CIL) have resented the delay in the release of the Pension Payment Order (PPO) to the bank and have requested Chairman PM Prasad and the chairman-cum-managing director of the coal subsidiary company to intervene in the matter.
The Coal Pensioners Association (CPA), the frontal organisation of retired coal men of CIL, has, in this regard, shot off a letter to the CIL chairman and CMDs of BCCL, CCL, ECL, WCL, MCL and others regretting that despite repeated reminders, the Coal Mines Provident Fund Organization (CMPFO) has not issued PPO so far.
“Whenever the Association/ Federation delegation met CMPFO authority, they assured of issuing the PPO soon. But on different alibi PPO is held up every time,” said CPA president Ramanuj Prasad in his letter to the CIL chairman.
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Prasad said that on January 2, while meeting with the CMPFO commissioner, the CIL chairman directed the management of all CIL subsidiaries to provide pensioners’ family-related information to the CMPFO. He added that the authorities of CMPFO got another opportunity to delay releasing PPO in the name of the chairman letter to subsidiary coal companies.
“Coal company sends detailed information of its retired employee including a joint photo of concerned staff and his wife to CMPFO. Based on the information, PPO is issued to the bank. So, all information is available with the coal company and CMPFO. Still, PPO is not issued,” said the CPA president.
In his letter to the CIL chairman, the Coal Pensioners Association has urged to take immediate steps for bailing out beleaguered pensioners who are in poor health and mentally tired.
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