We come to know the amount of expenditure that DOT spent for the
years 06-07, 07-08, 08-09 and 09-10 for our retirement benefits. The expenditure
for 10-11 is yet to be spelt but estimate is known. We can get the relevant
figures of BSNL Contribution for those years from its financial statements.
Matching both the figures, one can easily discern that BSNL is
burdened with the maximum of the Pension Liability and the liability is
increasing.
Regarding the figures of DOT, we have taken here only the actual
expenditure shown by them.. The liability is for the entire heads- that is for
those retired in DOT + BSNL Absorbed retirees+ Family Pension+
Grautity+Commutation. The strange compulsion for BSNL is that it is sharing the
burden of pension and other retirement benefits even for those who retired in
DOT. No separate account is maintained for DOT retirees including FP and no
segregation of burden for those DOT retirees and BSNL absorbed retirees.
Some of our RTI experts should get the details so that to help us to
frame our
‘demand’ in order to minimise the burden of BSNL and to get
reassurance from the Govt for the guarantee of pension from the GOVT in any
eventuality.
The Revised Estimate for 2010-11 is shown as 3700 crores and
Estimate for 11-12 is shown as 3959 crores. If the new order of BSNL
(Contribution on existing pay as on 1-1-07) is approved and get cleared by DOT
and MOF, then BSNL may get some relief for the coming years. If the
Contribution is on initial pay, then we can save some more crores. But DOP
guidelines are not helping for that. The better solution would be to seek
segregation of liability for the DOT retirees and Absorbed retirees and pay our
contribution accordingly.
DOT’s Actual Expenditure
as per the records in Crores
|
Head
|
06-07
|
07-08
|
08-09
|
09-10
|
|
Pension
|
711.472
|
824.556
|
1126.945
|
1493.921
|
|
Commutation
|
224.432
|
236.133
|
318.242
|
519.789
|
|
Gratuity
|
279.475
|
306.700
|
336.583
|
598.120
|
|
FP
|
128.005
|
142.475
|
196.404
|
277.120
|
|
Leave Encashment
|
2.343
|
1.997
|
4.505
|
4.688
|
|
Total
|
1345.968
|
1511.947
|
1982.813
|
2893.821
|
Table 2
|
Year
|
DOT Expenditure
|
BSNL Contribution
|
Percentage of DOT’s Burden
|
Percentage of BSNL’s Burden
|
|
06-07
|
1345.968
|
531.85
|
60.49
|
39.51
|
|
07-08
|
1511.947
|
821.15
|
45.69
|
54.31
|
|
08-09
|
1982.813
|
1288.39
|
35.03
|
64.97
|
|
09-10
|
2893.821
|
2023.53
|
30.08
|
69.92
|
The table 2 is self explanatory one. The liability of BSNL goes even
up to 70%. But DOT’s 15-6-2006 order speaks differently.
“Annual Pension liability of the Government in respect of employees
who retired prior to 1-10-2000 and those who have worked / are working on
deemed deputation and those who are absorbed in BSNL shall not exceed 60% of
the receipt to the Govt on the following items a) Dividend from MTNL/BSNL b) LF from MTNL/BSNL c) Corporate tax, excise duty, service tax
paid by BSNL.Any amount exceeding shall be borne by BSNL. “
We can have a simple sample exercise. License Fee levied from BSNL
and MTNL for the YE 2009 are 2092.33 crores and 409.46 crores. Adding both, the
amount received by DOT is 2501.79 crores and for YE 2010 the fig is 2499.25. As
per June 2006 order, DOT may take liability up to 60% (Excise duty Corp tax etc
–we have not taken) of LF- that is 1501.07 crores for YE 09 and 1499.55 crores
for YE 2010. Doing simple arithmetic, one can find the actual liability of DOT
standing to 694.42 crores for 2009 and 870.29 for 2010. DOT is not even returning 35% of its receipts
thro LF and Taxes for Pension Payments and if we able to calculate the exact
burden for the absorbed officials- then the percentage of liability to DOT
would be much lesser – that means more than 70% of the burden is vested with
BSNL only.
‘How to get rid off’ is the question before us…
14-1-12
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