We are once again publishing an Article for the information of all our veteran
brothers
We once again appeal to
one all to kindly look for such innocent
War Widows in your areas and help them
or lease gives us the particulars , we will help them.
Where ever the Prefix- in
the PPO is F/ BC/…… and F/…………. They
are eligible for a Liberalised Family pension/
Special Family pension..
Veteran brothers. Please
go through the Article, you find the pitiable case.
We hope there will be many
more such Widows drawing ordinary family pension.
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THE PLIGHT OF A 2ND WORLD WAR WIDOW
THE PLIGHT OF A 2ND WORLD WAR WIDOW
Signal Man (No.A5861) Muthu Mayyan was
recruited in the British Indian Army on 01.10.1940 with a liability to take
part immediately in overseas war theatres of the British empire. The War
came to an end with a great victory to the British empire in 1945. The
British Indian Army played a vital role for this great victory.
But Signal Man Muthu Mayyam, never came back
after the War. His whereabouts not known. It was only on 01.11.1948, (After the
Independence) the then Signals records confirmed that the Signalman Muthu
Mayyan presumed dead as on 01.11.1948. Thereafter, the independent India released a
Scroll of honour ( The Scroll of honour with Ashok Chakra is
given below) and sanctioned Liberalised Family pension to the widow Smt.Maruthi
with a PPO No.F/W/1939 (CA)83093 w.e.f. 01.01.1950 with a monthly pension of
Rs.8 for self and Rs.4 p.m. as children allowance.
From 01.01.1950 to 27.12.2012 for more than 62
years, the widow lived with whatever pension paid by the Bank. During
these 62 years, the pension hd undergone revision for more than 6 times. Every
time the OFP and LFP had undergone various changes. But it
appears that the changes have not been effected to this widow for Liberalised
pension throughout this period. There is not a single communication from the
Signals record office to this widow during the past 62 years.
It was when the Exwel Trust’s Liaison Officer
Sgt.S.Kandiah, while going through the pension list of the particular bank, he
noticed that Smt.Maruthi, with a PPO Prefix “F/W” was getting a basic pension
of Rs.3500. Immediately the Trust members contacted the widow and the bank and verified
all the records, which showed that she is a 2ndWorld War Liberalised
Family pensioner. She is eligible for a basic pension of Rs.9200 w.e.f. 01.01.2006 and
Rs.11,040 from 20.11.2011 with 20% additional pension.
The Trust also immediately confirmed from the
Signals records that she is eligible for Liberalised family pension. The
young bank Manager Mr.Papanasam was astonished to see how quickly the Trust was
trying to restore the correct pension to an aged and ailing widow. The
Manager was fully convinced over the short payment of her pension for a long
period, at least from 01.01.96 and assured to restore her right pension and
arrears during the life of the widow.
As promised, the Manager arranged for payment
of revised pension and arrears and paid all dues just 3 days before her death
on 06.01.2012. He has done a marvelous job by preparing all documents from the bed side of
the ailing widow and arranged safe deposit of the arrears to the legal heirs.
The most sorrowful part of the story is that
the widow never knew that her monthly pension was Rs.17,444/- at the time of
her death. Had she known, she would have died more happily remembering her
husband’s sacrifice in the 2nd World War. This is the condition of most of our old family pensioners. But for
the immediate action taken by the Exwel Trust and the most sincere Manager
Mr.Papanasam’s help, the widow would not have received the good amount of
arrears to her legal heirs.
Dear Friends and readers of this Blog, please
help aged pensioners by listening their grievances patiently. Verify
the old documents discreetly, enquire the full story of the deceased soldier,
only then you will be able to help them.
You will be surprised to know, that the we
could get this good amount of arrears to the legal heirs only with a Basic
knowledge that all defence family pension PPOs with prefix “F” are
Special Family Pension with a minimum pension of Rs.7000 p.m. and with with
prefix F/W and F/BC are Liberalised family pension with a minimum pension of
Rs.9200/-. With this simple information, we could get arrears to many widows more than
one crore during the past 3 years. Still there are many cases hidden here
and there. We are on constant search out for these poor widows.
Recently on 26.01.2012
we have published a list of 115 widows belonging to Special category defence
family pension getting less pension. We have also estimated a total arrears of
Rs.3.5 crores payable to these widows goes unnoticed by the pensioners and the
bank.
I give below the link for the list. My dear
readers in Tamilnadu, please go through the list, and if you happen to know any
one, kindly ask them to contact us over our mobile No.9786449036 or 9894152959
to get their correct pension and arrears. This
will be a noble service to our community. Please
do so.
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