20-Jul-2026

Comrades,
The most alarming, concerning, and highly condemnable moves of the NDA Government towards Pensioners are
1. The gazette notification issued by the government unambiguously mentions its Terms of Reference that Pension if Central Government Pensioners is Unfunded and Non Contributory. Blatant distortion and completely misleading. Central Govt Employees have and keep on paying Pension Contribution every month towards Consolidated Fund of Govt.of India. Today a corpus of about 15 lakh crores exists as Pension Fund with G.O.I , and, yet, Government brazen facedly has stated in its Terms of Reference of 8th CPC that Pension is Unfunded and Non Contributory, thereby clearly conveying to the 8th CPC that existing and future Pensioners of Central Government are not entitled for Pension Revision.
2. In order to legitimize denial of Pension Revision to existing and future Pensioners, Finance Minister introduced Validation Act, 25, in the most deceitful and condemnable manner by making it a part of Finance Bill which is completely against the Rules of Business of Parliament.
3. The crux and sole objective of Validation Act, 25, is to discriminate Pensioners on the basis of their date of retirement so as to deny them Pension Revision. This is blatantly against the 13 member and 5 member Judgments of Constitutional Benches of Supreme Court. Validation Act, directly violates Article 14 of the Constitution which is an essential ingredof Basic Structure of the Constitution.
4. The most disturbing aspect is that 8th CPC refused to discuss the issue of Pension Revision with the National Council of JCM which is only legitimate and recognized body by the Govt. to discuss issues of Working Employees and Pensioners of the Central Government. This was revealed by Com Shiv Gopal Mishra, Leader of the Staff Side of National Council of Joint Consultative Machinery, apex body for consultations and resolution of issues of Working Employees and Pensioners of the Central Government.
In view of these thretening and dubious developments, and to fully expose and defeat the devilish and sinister intentions of the Government towards Pensioners, above Programme of Protest Actions had been chalked out by National Coordination Committe of Pensioners Associations at Chennai in its marathon deliberations on 18th and 19th July, 2026.
Comrades, it becomes the bounden duty of each and every Comrade of SNPWA throughout the Country to make intense preparations for massive participation in the aforesaid Programme of Protest Actions. CHQ is confident that the aforesaid Programme of Trade Union Actions to expose, condemn and defeat the ulterior motives of this Govt shall be made a astounding and huge success.
Comradely yours,
G. L. Jogi, GS/ SNPWA.

20-Jul-2026

20-Jul-2026

20-Jul-2026

20-Jul-2026

National Executive council meeting of NCCPA at Chennai on 18-07-2026:
Open Session:
he National Executive Committee of NCCPA at Maharashtra Bhawan, Chennai started with flag hoisting by veteran leader and Patron, Com. V. A. N. Namboodiri followed by offering floral tributes to the martyrs at 10 AM.
The open session began at 1030 AM. Com. V. A. N. Namboodiri presided. Com. K. G. Jayaraj, Officiating Secretary General, welcomed one and all. He also made a presentation on the memorandums submitted to the 8th CPC in the form of 18 and 9 questionnaires. As there is no progress on the issues of Validation clause and retrograde Terms of Reference of the 8th CPC even after two phases of agitation, the National Executive is duty bound to decide appropriate third phase of agitation. Com. Shiva Gopal Mishra, President, NCCPA and Secretary, Staff side of NJCM, inaugurated the open session. He elaborated on the recent developments with regard to the 8th CPC and the discussion had with full member CPC on two occasions in New Delhi. Though the Chair -person of the 8th CPC stated that pension revision can't be discussed, he assured that it will be discussed and sorted out. Otherwise, we have no other option than big struggle. Pensioners have no religion or caste, and they can't be discriminated. The government is on a privatization spree. Modi government has become a serious threat to democracy. We have to build broad unity and fight against the onslaught.
Com. D. K. Debnath, Deputy Secretary, NCCPA & General Secretary, AIPRPA, Com. S. K. Sharma, Working President, NCCPA, Com. A. K. Ghosh, Working President, NCCPA, R. Elangovan, President, DRPU and S. Sridhar, President, AIRRF addressed the open session and reiterated for further struggles.
With vote of thanks by Com. R. Rajasekar, Reception Committee, the open session was concluded at 1.30PM.
More than 400 comrades participted and the hall was jampacked.
The Reception Committee under the leadership of Coms. P. Mohan, C K Narasimhan, R. Rajasekar and K Govindaraj have made excellent arrangements for the successful conduct of the National Executive on 18th and FCPA meeting on 19th July, 2026.
By 2 pm the committee started with com. A K Ghosh in chair. Com.Misraji was present in Dias.
Officiating General Secretary Com..K G Jayaraj presented organisational issues and proposed 3 phased agitational programs culminating in DELHI MARCH in the winter session of Parliament.
As part of discussion,Com. R.Muraleedharan Nair ,General Secretary,AIBDPA fully supported the proposal of General Secretary and requested NCCPA to include the issue of pension revision of BSNL/MTNL Pensioners in the charter of demand.
R.Muraleedharan Nair also requested Com.Shivgopal misraji to spare his valuable time to convene a meeting of all the pensioners associations of BSNL/MTNL to explore the possibility of a consensus and avoid further litigation.Also,it is requested that Secretary Staff side may utilise his good office to arrange another round of discussions at the level of Secretary,DOT.
Com.Misraji ,present in the Dias immediately responded positively.

After detailed discussions, the following decisions were taken unanimously.
1.Decided to organise Parliament March during winter session of parliament.
2.Demands day and 3 days DHARNA ,Prelude to the parliament march.
3.Demands will include Validation Act,TOR of 8th CPC,Pension revision of BSNL/MTNL ,CGHS issues-which can be finalised by 19-07-2026 at the FCPA Meeting.