Supply of Information under RTI Act for Shri G. Murugaiyan

Employees' Provident Fund Organisation (Ministry of Labour & Employment, Govt. Of India) Head Office Bhavishya Nidhi Bhawan, 14, Bhikaji Cama Place, New Delhi - 110066 Website: www.epfindia.gov.in

No. RTI/11011/91/2018-pension-56489/3639 Dated: 13 JUL 2018

To

OICs/ROs (For Point No. 4 & 6)

Sub.: Supply of Information under RTI Act - 2005 - reg.

Sir,

Please find enclosed herewith an online RTI application dt. 01.07.2018 under RTI Act of Sh. G. Murugaiyan received in Pension Section for seeking information under the Right to Information Act. The copy of the letter is transferred to you for necessary action under the Right to Information Act, 2005. The information has to be provided directly to the applicant under intimation to the undersigned.

If the desired information does not pertain to the concerned division or some part of information is held by other division or public authority, the concerned CPIO shall forward/transfer the application or such part of it as may be appropriate to relevant division/Public authorities u/s 5(4) and 6(3) of the RTI Act, 2005 respectively and inform the applicant immediately about such transfer. However, if the CPIO is not able to find out as to which division/public authority is concerned with the information even after making reasonable efforts to find out the concerned division/public authority to which the application could be transferred. It would, however, be the responsibility of the CPIO, if an appeal is made against his decision, to establish that he made reasonable efforts to find out the particulars of the concerned division/public authority.

Name & address of the Appellate Authority may also be mentioned in the reply, so that the applicant can make an appeal within 30 days from the expiry of such period or from the receipt of decision given by the public authority, if he is aggrieved by the decision.

In this context please refer the order of the full bench of CIC in Appeal No. CIC/AT/A/2008/01280, dated 29.09.2009 between Sri Ketan Kantilal Modi Vs. Central Board of Excise & Customs wherein it is held as under:-

"In case CPIO, CBEC transfers appellant's RTI application electronically to the subordinate Commissionerates, the latter shall process these information requests as independent requests under Section 6(1) and collect from the petitioner all requisite fees including the application fee as if the application were made independently by him to that public authority subordinate to the CBEC."

No copy is required to be endorsed to Head Office for information

Encl: As above

Yours faithfully,

(Kartikey Singh) CPIO/Regional P. F. Commissioner-I (Pension)

Copy to:- Shri G Murugaiyan 183 F1 MANICKAM FLATS, BHARATHIYAR STREET, KAVERI RENGAN NAGAR, SALIGRAMAM, Chennai, Pin:600093 - For information.

You are advised to approach the above Public Authority for further information regarding the matter and for any grievance regarding non-receipt of information.

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RTI REQUEST DETAILS

• Registration Number: EPFOG/R/2018/56489
• Date of Receipt: 01/07/2018
• Type of Receipt: Online Receipt
• Language: English
• Name: G Murugaiyan
• Gender: Male
• Address: 183 F1 MANICKAM FLATS BHARATHIYAR STREET, KAVERI RENGAN NAGAR, SALIGRAMAM, Chennai, Pin:600093
• State: Tamilnadu
• Country: India
• Phone Number: Details not provided
• Mobile Number: +91-9884461612
• Email-ID: fcieugs@gmail.com
• Status (Rural/Urban): Urban
• Education Status: Details not provided
• Is Requester Below Poverty Line?: No
• Citizenship: Indian
• Amount Paid: 10 (original recipient)
• Mode of Payment: Payment Gateway
• Request Pertains to: RPFC-1, Pension, EDU

Information Sought

From G. Murugaiyan 30-6-2018

Dear Sir

Kindly provide the following informations under RTI act 2005. concerning the LIFE and LIBERTY of Senior Citizens and pensioners, at the earliest

• (a) EPFO HQ directive No. P&D/Misc/2017/3224 dated 20/25/9/2017 for treating RTIs on pension matters as concerning Life & Liberty and to be disposed of within 48 hrs as per decision of CIC in CIC/BS/A/2016/001238
• (b) EPFO HQ no P&D/HQ/Appeal/2017/945 dated 30-5-2017 advising that information relating to PF accounts is neither of Third party nor personal information and the time limit for providing the information must be strictly adhered as per decision of CIC in CIC/BS/A/2015/002064 DATED 22-03-2017.

During 1995 the Government and EPFO advertised that the Better Pension Scheme is EPS 1995 pension scheme and with other benefits are also simultaneously introduced by replacing the EPF and MISC ACT 1952 and 1972 schemes.

In this connection kindly provide the following information with relevant copies of documents.

1. The D.A introduced through the scheme is abruptly stopped and reason is not circulated by EPFO to its members.
2. The reason to withdraw the DA and the correspondence letters in this connection may be provided.
3. At the time of introducing the EPS-1995 scheme there was no such discrimination between pensioners. From which date the concept of Exempted and Unexempted establishments identified / introduced and started using by the EPFO. Any orders / letters issued in this regard may be provided.
4. Whether the term Exempted and Unexempted is informed to the Honorable Supreme Court and in any other High Courts through EPFOs reply in the courts. If so kindly provide the copies of the documents.
5. Whether the newly recruited employees of Exempted organization were given chance to contribute full pensionable amount to EPS-95 pension scheme.
6. Which are the establishments requested the EPFO to contribute pensionable amount for full salary for its employees. Provide the list of such organization. If the request was denied, the reason for this with the letters correspondence may provide.
7. The assurance given by the EPFO for the commuted amount will be restored in pension on completion of 100 months recovery. Whether the commuted amount has been restored on recovery completion of 100 months to the pensioners in time. If so the details and the list of such pensioners all over the country, Region wise whose pension is revised to normal pension may be provided.

Further any amount remitted by me will be remitted through on line, on receipt of intimation from you

Thanking you

Yours Truly

G. Murugaiyan fcieugs@gmail.com 9884461612