Pensioners Day Celebration – Wishes to all the Pensioners – 17.12.2024
December 17th, is celebrated every year as Pensioners Day since 1983 in India.
It was on this day in 1982 that the Supreme Court delivered the landmark judgment guaranteeing dignity and decency to the retired officials.
‘Pensioners Day’ is celebrated in our country to remember, with gratefulness, the late D.S. Nakara who fought for years to bring dignity and grace to the community, through the judgment dt 17.12.1982.
The pension system in India was brought by the British government in 1857. The scheme was similar to pension system then prevailing in Britain,which was
finalised by the Indian Pension Act of 1871.
DS Nakara, then finance to Ministry of Defense, retired in 1972. He also, faced problems in getting his pension like other pensioners. Therefore, he filed a petition in the Supreme Court. It was on December 17, 1982, that the top court delivered a judgement in favour of pensioners.
Late Justice Y.V. Chandrachud, then Chief Justice of India had ruled: “Pension is neither a bounty, nor a matter of grace depending upon the sweet will of the employer, nor an ex-gratia payment. It is a payment for the past services rendered. It is a social welfare measure rendering socio-economic justice to those who in the heyday of their life ceaselessly toiled for the employer on an assurance that in their old age they would not be left in the lurch”
Even after four decades of the historic judgement, the plight of bank pensioners is very well known to us.
On this Pensioners’ Day 2024, let us pledge to continue our fight for justice to all pensioners.
BDPA (INDIA) CELEBRATED it on 14.12.2024 with Pensioners Associations in City
