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Monthly Journal of KARNATAKA POSTS and TELECOMMUNICATIONS PENSIONERS' ASSOCIATION (R) CGHS Wellness Centre to Mysuru Monthly Journal of KARNATAKA POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS PENSIONERS' ASSOCIATION (R) (KSR Act 1960, REG. No. 1069/98-99) (FORMERLY RMS PENSIONERS' ASSOCIATION) Registered as "A Wholly Charitable Trust" U/S 12A of I.T. Act 1961 Registered Office: Pensioners’ Bhavan, Telecom Layout, Sriramapura Phase II Bengaluru-560064 Working Office: # 165, 4th Main, 3rd Block, 3rd Stage, Basaveshwaranagar, Bengaluru-560 079 Phone: 23230545 e-mail: [email protected] Website : www.kptpa.org G. Babu M.N. Gopinath K.B. Krishna Rao V. Gopal K.R. Anantha Ramu President, Vice President Secretary, Joint Secretary Treasurer Ph.: 23220355, 94480 40355 Mob: 9480586661 Ph.: 23230545 Mob : 8197918085 Mob : 9448477129 VOLUME XXII ISSUE 6 JUNE 2021 Annual Subscription : Members- Rs. 180/- Others - Rs. 240/- Single Copy - Rs. 20/- CGHS Wellness Centre to Mysuru Two decade old demand accepted by the Government A dream come true for the Pensioners of Mysuru city and towns nearby The background, the organisations and the individuals who strived hard over the past 20 years or more to make the dream a reality. It was the Karnataka Posts and for discussions in the meeting of SCOVA in Telecommunications Pensioners Association, January 2006 regarding opening of CGHS then a member of the Standing Committee of Wellness Centre in Mysuru city. Voluntary Agencies (SCOVA) and headed by All India Central Confederation of Sri B.Sadashiva Rao IPS (Retd.) as its Pensioners’ Association, New Delhi had written President and the Veteran P&T Trade Union a letter on 19-8-2002 to the Ministry of Health leader Com N.Bhaskaran as its Secretary, and FW, furnishing the required statistical data both of whom also headed the Coordination requesting opening of CGHS Dispensary in Committee of Central Government Pensioners’ Mysuru stating that there was full justification. Associations Karnataka (CCCGPA) as its Chairman and General Secretary respectively, (Source: page 8 of Pensioners Champion responding to the consistent demand from the January 2006 issue) Central Government Pensioners Association, Dr. T. S. Sathyanarayana Rao, President Mysuru, also an affiliate of CCCGPA, notified of Central Government Pensioners’ a subject for inclusion in the Agenda items Association, Mysuru a strong votary for Association’s Bank Account for crediting Subscription: SBI, NTI Layout Branch, Vidyaranyapura, Bengaluru, Account Holder : Karnataka P&T Pensioners' Association, Current Account No. 36418697411 - IFSC: SBIN 0009045 establishment of CGHS WC in the city, had Dr. Sathyanarayana Rao President, CGPA, moved heaven and earth, made many trips to Mysuru, P. Gangadhara Rao, President All New Delhi, met the concerned authorities in India BSNL Pensioners’ Welfare Association the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare and and K.B. Kishna Rao, Secretary, Karnataka had strongly pleaded with all concerned to P&T Pensioners’ Association presented the open a Wellness Centre in Mysuru. Dr. Rao, demands on which they had been asked to who used to attend the meetings of the speak by CCCGPA. Dr. Sathyanarayana Rao CCCGPA, had never forgotten to invariably brought to the notice of the Pay Commission remind the Management Committee to pursue the long pending demand regarding CGHS the matter with the government. facility to Mysuru stating that though the issue In the ‘Pensioners Day’observed on had been taken up by Members of Parliament 3-1-2010 in Mysuru in which Sri Vijayashankar and raised by them in Lok Sabha and Rajya Ex-Member of Parliament, Loksabha was the Sabha, CGHS to Mysuru City was yet to Chief Guest, Dr. Sathyanarayana Rao, become a reality. President CGPA, Mysuru was honoured in (Source : Page -2-5 of the Journal recognition of his service in the cause of Pensioners’ Champion August, 2014) pensioners. Efforts made during the last 2 Karnataka Posts and decades by CGPA Mysore in getting CGHS Telecommunication Pensioners’ Association facility to the City were traced in the meeting. (KP&TPA) had been pursuing this issue since (Source : Journal Pensioners Champion 2018 and had notified a subject for inclusion January 2010 issue) in the Agenda items for discussions in the 30th meeting of the Standing committee of Before the 7th Central Pay Commission voluntary agencies (SCOVA) held on The pay commission had accepted 23-3-2018 requesting for opening of CGHS the request for oral hearing made by the WCs in Mysuru, Mangaluru and Hubballi- Coordination Committee of Central Government Dharwad. (page 9 of Pensioners’ Champion Pensioners Associations Karnataka (CCCGPA) February 2018 issue). This item was again and their representatives met the Pay included in the issues proposed by KP&TPA Commission in Bengaluru on 24-8-2014. The for the 31st meeting of SCOVA held on demand for opening CGHS Wellness Centre in 5-9-2019. (page 4 of Pensioners’ Champion Mysuru was also one of the many other issues February 2019 issue). But the item was not like grant of Interim relief, merger of DR with included in the Agenda by DoP&PW. This pension, complete parity in pension, reduction issue was discussed in the Annual General in age for grant of additional pension, increase Body meeting of CCCGPA heldon 3-8-19 and in the quantum of pension and family pension, it was decided to submit memorandums to extension of 7th CPC benefits to BSNL Members of Parliament of the respective pensioners etc. which were placed before the Constituencies named above. Pay Commission by the President/ Secretaries Pursuing the matter further, CCCGPA of the affiliates of CCCGPA who attended the submitted memorandum to Shri Pralhad Joshi, meeting.S/s. S. Radhakrishna, Chairman, Hon’ble Minister of Parliamentary Affairs on CCCGPA, N Bhaskaran, General Secretary 31-8-2019 in Hubballli.(Pages - 8&9 of CCCGPA, S.S. Ramanatha Rao, President Pensioners’ Champion September 2019), Karnataka Central Govt. Pensioners’ Sri S. Radhakrishna, GS, CCCGPA and Association, A. Balaram, President, Coffee Sri T.V. Suryaprakash, Jt.General Secretary Board Pensioners’ Association, met Sri Sadananda Gowda Hon’ble Minister of PENSIONERS' CHAMPION 2 JUNE 2021 Chemicals and Fertilisers in Bengaluru on KMs were also included in the statistical data 19-2-2021 and submitted a memorandum to as there is every possibility of the pensioners him regarding (1)Opening of Allopathic Central of those towns also opting for CGHS benefits. Government Health Scheme (CGHS) CCCGPA, Karnataka in coordination with Dispensaries/ Wellness Centres in Mysuru, the Confederation of Central Government Mangaluru and Hubballi (2) Empanelment of at Employees and Workers Karnataka State, least one Private Hospital in each District furnished the number of employees and headquarter of the state under CGHS (3) Health pensioners in respect of other Central Govt. care facilities to the Pensioners of Autonomous/ Departments residing in Mysuru City and other Statutory Bodies of Central Government places mentioned above. (Pages-10 &11 of Pensioners’ Champion Number of Central Employees and Pensioners February 2021). Shri P M Parameshwaraiah, Employees Pensioners in Secretary, CGPA Mysuru submitted a in Mysuru Mysuru, memorandum to Shri Pratap Simha Member Mandya, of Parliament, LokSabha, Mysuru on Nanjanagudu & 1-10-2019 requesting him to take up the issue Srirangapatna with the Health Ministry. Postal, DoT 466 2705 Inputs Shri Pratap Simha Member of and BSNL by Parliament, Lok Sabha, Mysuru along with KP&TPA Shri Tejasvi Surya, Member of Parliament, Other Central 1447 1750 Inputs Bengaluru South Lok Sabha, met Dr. Harsh Departments by COC Vardhan Hon’ble Union Minister for Health & Total 1913 4455 Family Welfare in December 2019, handed Total Employees 6368 No. of beneficiaries and Pensioners: over the memorandum and requested the Employees: 1913X4=7652 Minister to establish a CGHS W C in Mysuru. Pensioners: 4455X2=8910 CGHS Directorate vide letter dated Total likely 8-8-2019 had called for information about the beneficiaries = 16562 likely number of Central government employees There is justification for opening of 2 CGHS Wellness Centres and pensioners that would be the beneficiaries in Mysuru to examine the request for opening of a CGHS (Page-4 of the Journal Pensioners Champion Wellness Centre at Mysuru. Additional Director, August, 2019) CGHS Bengaluru had asked KP&TPA to give Subsequently, the Hon’ble Minister of the inputs needed in this regard. Health and FW wrote a personal letter on In response to the request by the 11-2-2021 to the Hon’ble Minister of Finance Additional Director, CGHS Bengaluru, requesting that the proposal for opening of K P&T PA furnished the number of employees CGHS WCs in 16 cities (List of 16 included and pensioners of the Department of Posts, Mysuru also) in the country may be positively Dept. of Telecom and BSNL residing in Mysuru considered. Further on 12-3 -2021, Shri Ashwini city and towns near the city, which could be Kumar Choubey, Hon’ble Minister of State, ascertained through its efforts. Since the Ministry of Health & FW, in reply to a question pensioners are eligible for CGHS benefits by Sri Prajwal Revanna, Member of Parliament, irrespective of their place of residence, the Hassan Lok Sabha Constituency replied in the number of pensioners residing in the cities/ Parliament that “there is a proposal for opening towns which are very near to the city of Mysore of CGHS Wellness Centre in Mysuru and the Viz: Srirangapatna at a distance of 18 KMs; likely number of beneficiaries would be around Nanjanagudu at 23 KMs; and Mandya at 46 20,000.” PENSIONERS' CHAMPION 3 JUNE 2021 And finally, the Ministry of Health &FW as a result of the joint efforts of the vide its order dated 10-6-2021, (reproduced pensioners’ organisations supported by elsewhere in this journal) not only approved Central Ministers, Members of Parliament, establishment of CGHS Wellness Centres in Officers of the Health Ministry and CGHS the 16 cities mentioned therein including Doctors. Mysuru, but also simultaneously, sanctioned The support extended by Dr.
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