Title - Railway pensioners

The Railway Pensioners Welfare Association has asked the government to ensure that revised pension should not be lower than 50 per cent of the sum of the pay in the pay band and grade pay to the revised pay scale from which the pensioner had retired. Addressing to the AGM of the association, president KL Chitkara further demanded that dearness relief be merged with pension as it had gone beyond 50 per cent, or else pension be revised every five years. The meeting also called for five per cent additional old age pension and better facilities at sub divisional railway hospital with provision of super specialist doctors and diagnostic facilities.