Tamil Nadu government apparently distributed DA arrears to State Government retired employees recently. A good gesture especially in view of the upcoming தமிழ் வருடப்பிறப்பு (Tamil New Year) on 13th April 2012.
The twist in the story is - while distributing the arrears to old pensioners, the guys who distribute such money have been unabashedly taking bribes.
My friend's father-in-law, a 82 year old frail gentleman, who was in a senior position while in service had to pay Rs. 5,000 to collect his arrears of Rs. 82,000.
This is downright disgusting.
Imagine if there are 10,000 such pensioners and if these culprits take Rs. 5,000 from each one of them, these thieves are making a cool money of Rs. 5 crores!
When do these bandits stopping looting these old pensioners (actually their ex-colleagues)?
How this malaise can be stemmed? Don't these guys have moral?
Do we need an Anna Hazare for this?
Yeah, when we have Anna Hazare pointing out such corruption at lower levels, the same culprits participate as if they are white like swans and point at big money swindlers.
I am ashamed to hear about this. Shame on you cheats who steal money from old pensioners.
My suggestion to stem this malaise would be to make it mandatory for all the departments to transfer these amounts automatically to the bank accounts of the pensioners.
This could have happened to our fathers/mothers and our grandfathers/mothers. No need to wait for an angel to raise these issues. After reading this post if you felt what happened was wrong, please share this on your networks. Lets build a pressure group and such group can only emerge from the Internet.
My friend's father-in-law, a 82 year old frail gentleman, who was in a senior position while in service had to pay Rs. 5,000 to collect his arrears of Rs. 82,000.
This is downright disgusting.
Imagine if there are 10,000 such pensioners and if these culprits take Rs. 5,000 from each one of them, these thieves are making a cool money of Rs. 5 crores!
When do these bandits stopping looting these old pensioners (actually their ex-colleagues)?
How this malaise can be stemmed? Don't these guys have moral?
Do we need an Anna Hazare for this?
Yeah, when we have Anna Hazare pointing out such corruption at lower levels, the same culprits participate as if they are white like swans and point at big money swindlers.
I am ashamed to hear about this. Shame on you cheats who steal money from old pensioners.
My suggestion to stem this malaise would be to make it mandatory for all the departments to transfer these amounts automatically to the bank accounts of the pensioners.
This could have happened to our fathers/mothers and our grandfathers/mothers. No need to wait for an angel to raise these issues. After reading this post if you felt what happened was wrong, please share this on your networks. Lets build a pressure group and such group can only emerge from the Internet.
