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Sanjay Bumbroo
Tribune News Service
Panchkula, September 15
Retired HMT employees have been waiting for the Haryana Government to formulate a plan with regard to old-age pension promised to them during the previous assembly elections.
The retired HMT employees were getting old-age pension earlier and it was stopped in 2011 as they were registered under the ESI and EPF Act.
Local BJP leaders had promised the HMT employees in 2014 that if their party came to power, they would formulate a policy to provide old-age pension to those who were getting less than Rs 2,000 under the EPF scheme, but nothing has been done in this regard. According to estimates, there are about 1,000 persons in Panchkula district alone who are getting pension under the EPF scheme.
Vijay Bansal, senior Congress leader and patron of the HMT Bachao Samiti, had sent a legal notice to the Chief Secretary, Haryana, and Principal Secretary, Haryana Social Empowerment and Justice, that old-age pension of the retired HMT employees should be released soon. He said he had also given several memorandums to the Haryana Chief Minister in this regard since 2014, but due to the discriminatory attitude towards the Kalka assembly segment, nothing had been done. He also claimed that unpaid allowances of the retired HMT employees had also not been paid.
Bansal said HMT retired personnel had played an important role in bringing Pinjore’s map on the international map and any injustice to them was unbearable.
Meanwhile, Vishal Saini, District Social Welfare Officer, said they had sent a file in this regard to the higher authorities in 2014.
Unkept promise
Local BJP leaders had promised the HMT employees in 2014 that if their party came to power, they would formulate a policy to provide old-age pension to those who were getting less than Rs 2,000 under the EPF scheme, but nothing has been done in this regard. According to estimates, there are about 1,000 persons in Panchkula district alone who are getting pension under the EPF scheme.
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