PENSIONERS AWAREWNESS MEETING.

ESM PENSIONERS AWARENESS MEETING

AT SRIVILLIPUTTUR , TAMIL NADU.

An awareness meeting of Ex-Servicemen was held at Srivilliputtur, Virudhunagar –Dist of Tamil Nadu on Sunday, the  13-12-2015.About 400 Esm and widows attended the meeting.

Brigadier CS.Vidyasagar(Retd)  accompanied by  Cmde. Sudik Parkalla  Were the chief guests.

Col.Arasu and Col.Navaneetha Krishanan were among the organizers.

Brig. Vidyasagar  explained  with  Power Point Slides  about various  heads  regarding  pension- Service/Disability/War Injury  /Ordinary /Special and Liberalised family pensionand ECHS . He explained with examples and calculations, which was very much impressive  and easy to understand.

He also  explained the main features of 7^th Pay commission - Plus and Minus points  in brief.

He  informed with regret that many widow pensioners are being paid short pension  as they are not aware of their entitlement.

He advised  the veterans to help such innocent widows  in their areas  to get  their correct Rate of family pension.

He  informed the Gathering that there are deficiencies in the cir 547 and 549 regarding  pre-2006 arrears payment  and taken up the issue with Dept.of ESM Welfare .

The veterans and widows were happy and satisfied with the meeting  and thanked the Touring  senior  veteran Officers.

The meeting concluded with a Vote of thanks by Nb.Sub.Shanmugam  and National Anthem.,

 Veterans at Arunachalam Valliammal Kalyana Mandabam-Srivilliputtur.

 Brigadier CS.Vidyasagar (Retd)  Addressing the Veterans. Cdr.Sudk Parrikar and Nb.Sub. Shanmugam seated on the dias.

 Brigadier  explaining the different heads by the help of Power point Slides.

 Veterans are keenly listening to the lectures  of Brigadier.