BPS – 65th Virtual A.G.M. of Bharat Pensioner Samaj, New Delhi held on 30.12.2020 successfully.

31 Dec

BPS – 65th Virtual A.G.M. of Bharat Pensioner Samaj, New Delhi held on 30.12.2020 successfully. Shri M.M. Kapoor, presided over the meeting.

BPS virtual AGM the Zoom meeting of Bharat Pensioners Samaj held at 11AM today. 86 persons participated online. In addition to the Agenda items such as Annual Report, Annual Accounts, Election of office bearers and appointment of Auditor, the following issues were raised:
1-All CGHS Wellness centres should have facility for Vaccination against Covid.
2-Hyderabad hospital charged upto Rs 20 lakh in one fatal case, but not even 5 lakhs reimbursed so far putting the family into misery.
3-All CGHS claims should be settled within 3 months.
4-Legal heirship certificate is insisted, even in cases where the particulars are given in Form 3 declaration pasted in SB, causing delay in sanctioning FP.
5-Banks are insisting on several documents and KYC for disbursing FP, whereas only a copy of Death Certificate was required.
6-PPOnunber is not noted in Bank passbooks, causing difficulty in transferring pension account to a different branch.
7-Is it necessary that daughter nominated as dependent for FP should recide with parents?
8-Delay in uploading PPO to the System of the Bank concerned. Pensioners copy sent through WhatsApp is not accepted.

The Secretary General clarified the current rule position and promised to take up the issues.
One important resolution adopted related to the denying of benefits of Supreme Court orders, even in rem cases. SG requested that individual Associations should send separate representations digitally to put pressure on DOPT.

All Agenda items discussed, debated and approved. Keeping in view majority view, it was decided to continue printing of Bharat Pensioner as is done at present and also emagazine. 

Shri R.K. Chauhan, was elected as President and Shri Nanda and Kapase as V.P.

GS BDPA (INDIA) will continue to function as Secretary BSNL/PSU

There were no major changes.

S/Shri D.D. Mistry, R.C. Sharma, H.C. Bhatia, N.A. Patel, M.C. Waghela, N.G. Parmar, R.R. Patadia from Ahmedabad and Shri B.G. Salunke and J.P. Patel from Surat also participated and witnessed the proceedings.