Dear Comrades,
Today (01.10.2024), we observed the World Elders Day and World Pensioners day as per the Call of the WFTU and TUI for Pensioners and Retirees and NCCPA CHQr , New Delhi-110001, under the banner of Odisha Co-ordination Committee of Pensioners and Retirees Association ( OCCPRA) as a State level program through demonstrations at Cuttack in front of Cuttack GPO from 10.00 hrs to 12 . 00 hrs under the leadership of Com R N Dhal, Convenor, OCCPRA-Cum-State Secretary of AIPRPA.
The following Pensioners Associations participated in the program with rank and file members of their organizations. That is Odisha State Retired Employees Federation, AIPRPA, AIBDPA, AOLICPA, AOGICPA, AOBEPA.
Com R N Dhal initiated the program in brief as per demands of today's program and told as to what is today's significance and told about the messages issued by GOI, Ministers of the Social justice and Empowerment and by Mr Sourav Garg, IAS, Secretary to GoI, Ministry of Social justice and Empowerment when the Day is observed as world Elders day before the members.
The following leaders spoke and delivered their speech on the occasion on our charter of demands.
Com R N Mallik(LICPA), Com Pradipta Ku Mohanty ( OSGIPA), Com P K Sarangi ( From AOBEPA), Com Debadutta Das( AIBDPA), Com Rashmi Ranjan Das and Com H K Mohanty( AIPRPA), Com Gokulananda Behera and Com Nirmal Das ( OSREF) and Com Gangadhar Behera ( CGPA) .
The demands were :-
Universal Pension and Decent Pension, Decent and Dignified life:
To provide house who has no house,
To provide food and portable water,
To Provide free Treatment,
To provide medicare facilities,
To Provide free Transportation,
To provide all kinds of concession to all senior citizens,
To extend free excursion facilities to the elders,
Construction of more old age homes under the Union Government and State Governments
To provide better facilities to olders ,
To Scrap NPS / UPS and Restore OPS for all Employees and Pensioners and
To defend Pension and Social Security for survival in the hey days of life .
Pension is neither a bounty nor a grace of any Employer, but it is a fundamental right of the workers/ employees to avail it as a deferred wage for his service Contribution for the interest of the nation and for the organization for 30-40 years. There should not be any disparity or discrimination in pension - Said by the Apex Court in D S Nakara Judgment delivered on 17.12.1982.
About 30-40 Pensioners from the above pensioners associations attended the program and it was a grand success.
I am thankful to all Pensioners who attended the program in their older age and made it a successful. 🙏🙏🙏
In quilab - Zindabad.
WFTU-Zindabad.
TUI for (P&R) - Zindabad.
NCCPA-Zindabad.
OCCPRA- Zindabad.
Pensioners Unity- Zindabad.
World Elders day and World Pensioners day-Zindabad.
:- R N Dhal
Convenor, OCCPRA/ State Secretary, AIPRPA,
Odisha State Committee.
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