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Ensure textile mill workers get pension: PMK

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Party leader Ramadoss writes to Oscar Fernandes

Puducherry: Pattali Makkal Katchi parliamentary party leader M. Ramadoss has urged Union Minister of State for Labour Oscar Fernandes to ensure that the employees of textile mills in Puducherry were paid pension as per the Supreme Court order.

In a letter to Mr. Fernandes on Wednesday, he said a large number of employees had enrolled themselves as members of the Employees Pension Scheme, 1995, and have been contributing their payment to the scheme regularly. These employees had worked for more than 35 years. After retirement, they were paid very meagre amount as pension.

Mr. Ramadoss also said that the Supreme Court had upheld the Employees Pension Scheme and had also ruled that all the members of the pension scheme would be entitled to 50 per cent of the last drawn salary as monthly pension provided they had completed 35 years of continuous service. It would be 60 per cent if an employee had completed 40 years of service. Mr. Ramadoss said the court in a writ petition gave the ruling in November 2003.

Order not implemented

Mr. Ramadoss said that despite this clear instruction from the court, the PF authorities did not implement the order and consequently the pensioners were put to hardship. Mr. Ramadoss appealed to the Central Government to intervene and relieve the workers of their agony and pay them 50 per cent of the last drawn salary.

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