18.06.2024
The Principal Hindu College
University of Delhi
Delhi 110007
Subject: Restoration of pension
Dear Madam
It is in continuation of my previous requests for restoration of my proper pension from over five years after my retirement from the college from the post of the Associate Professor of Political Science. Let me backup the case once again.
1. I retired from my above mentioned job on 28 february, 2019.
2. I waited for the communication regarding grant of pension for months but did not receive any.
3. For two and half years, I neither received the pension nor any communication for the reasons of withholding my pension.
4. During this period I made several written, verbal and telephonic requests to you and the university officials pleading for the restoration of my pension.
5. In March 2020, I was told by the legal cell that my pension was being withheld owing to a case in High Court against the arbitrary action against 7 teachers for being signatory to a letter to the LG of Delhi in 2014 regarding ensuring the NGT clearance for the construction of the girls hostel, which has been constructed and is functional for long. I was verbally advised by the legal cell of the university to withdraw my name from the case so that it would not be subjudice. Subsequently I withdrew my name from the case.
6. I received a letter of congratulation via email from you dated 27 August 2020 about the closure of the above-mentioned case by the Governing Body in its meeting on 28 May 2020.
7. I continued making requests for release of my pension to no effect.
8. In August 2021, I received a telephonic communication to sign an undertaking to receive “provisional pension” fixed at the initial scale of the Associate Professor but did not receive any communication for the basis/grounds/reasons for it.
9. In two and half years during which I didn't receive any pension, I exhausted my retirement benefits leaving me with no emergency funds.
10. The provisional pension does not have the provision of the right to commute a part of the pension that sabotaged my long cherished post retirement plans of building a couple of rooms in my home village.
11. The Delhi University has written to you to sympathetically reconsider my case as it is not subjudice.
My endurance to the prorated, inhuman and cruel financial and mental harassment; cruel torture and stress for over 5 years has reached a saturation point. Over 5 years of stress for a 70 years old heart patient, having suffered two heart attacks may prove to be fatal. The first massive heart attack, I suffered on 10 December 2018 after learning that the college administration was stipulating to obstruct my pension after retirement and second, not so massive on 3 November 2019 after learning that the college administration was withholding my personal file from sending to the pension cell of the University.
I sincerely request you to sympathetically reconsider my case and restore my full pension at the earliest. Your sympathetic reconsideration with a humane sense is the only way to end the grave injustice I am undergoing. The other alternative to seek justice, undertaking an indefinite hunger strike involves risking life, as a heart patient has to regularly take medicine and that is not allowed empty stomach and death of a retired teacher would not even make the news and would not shake the conscience of the powers that be. It may, probably quench the thirst of some peoples’ sadistic pleasure.
Once again, therefore, I sincerely request you to do the needful to restore my full pension and save me from further, pain, agony and stress.
Regards
Sincerely yours
Ish N. Mishra
Associate professor (Retired)
Department of political Science
Hindu College
University of Delhi
Delhi 110007
Phone : 9811146846
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