Message from the
Commissioner
During the period from February 2007 till the end of March 2010, there has been manifold improvement in the social security service delivery system both in the twenty-four jurisdictional Regional Offices and the Headquarters office of the Coal Mines Provident Fund Organisation, which is the repository of the Coal Mines Provident Fund and Pension Fund contributions of the members of the two statutory social security schemes in the coal industry in the country.
In the subject of automation and computerization, we have made epoch- making advancement in dispensing with a hitherto imposed very costly dispensation and have successfully put in place a cost effective and user-friendly , and highly secured application programme known as CMPFO-OSS (Coal Mines Provident Fund Organisation- Online Settlement Solutions) developed in- house for the settlement of the claims of Provident Fund Advances and Refunds of the members of the Coal Mines Provident Fund Scheme 1948, and also the claims of pensions under the Coal Mines Pension Scheme 1998 .
With the shifting of the Office of the jurisdictional Regional Commissioner, CMPFO, Hyderabad, to Godavarikhani , in the month of October 2007 , and the opening of the National Electronic Data Processing Centre, and the National Academy of Social Security Studies at Nagole Road, Hyderabad, we have resolved the urgent requirement of expeditious settlement of the PF and Pension claims of the workers and executives of the Singarenni Collieries Company Limited , stationed at Ramagundum, Karimnagar, Adillabad districts , in the State of Andhra Pradesh , and also the need for providing in-service training in automation and other aspects of the processes of the claims settlement, redressal of public grievances and the updation of knowledge levels of the serving employees and officers in accordance with the training schedules drawn for the jurisdictional offices of the CMPFO.
The opposition and unrest to CHANGE have been largely subdued, and the vested interests have been jettisoned. I assure the Workers and executives of the collieries and offices of the Coal Companies, both in the public and private sectors in the country a better service delivery system.
We have publicized the statutory
requirements of the Pensioners receiving pensions under the erstwhile Coal
Mines Family Pension Scheme 1971, and the present Coal Mines Pension Scheme
1998, in vogue, to submit the Survival and Life Certificate in the revised
format in triplicate. The copies of the
revised format of Survival/Life Certificate are available with the jurisdictional
Regional Commissioners’ Offices of the CMPFO, situated at
Any person having a grievance or a complaint against any individual functionary or functionaries employed in the Coal Mines Provident Fund Organisation, in the matter of settlement of claim, and/or demand for monetary consideration, direct or indirect, implied or suggestive, within the meaning of Section 7 of the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988, may write to me, confidentially, giving the full facts. The complainants identity will be kept secret, and investigations will be carried out in statutory and administrative lines, and the offenders will be brought to book.
The members of the public are hereby
notified and informed that the Coal Mines Provident Fund Organisation is a
social security dispensation organisation,. It is not a manufactory or an industry. The Industrial Disputes Act, 1947 does not
apply on the administration and functions of the Coal Mines Provident Fund
Organisation. Thus, no Trade Unions can
be formed in the CMPFO. Only Associations of Officials, as provided in the
Department of Personnel and Training Gazette of India Notification No.
2/10/-JCA (VOL.IV) dated 5th November 1993 and
Members of the public are requested to take note of the foregoing and register their grievances , if any, with the offices of the jurisdictional Regional Commissioners, and Assistant Commissioners of the CMPFO , henceforth, for the beneficial protection of their own interest relating to the payments receivable by them from the CMPFO.
Several proposals for the revision of the provisions of the Coal Mines Provident Fund Scheme 1948 and the Coal Mines Pension Scheme 1998 have been forwarded by the Commissioner, Coal Mines Provident Fund Organisation, Headquarters Office, Dhanbad, to the Central Government, to give its administrative concurrence and approval, in public interest, during the financial years 2007-08, 2008-09 and 2009-10.
We, in the Coal Mines Provident Fund Organisation, are committed to protect the corpus of the contributions received from the workers and executives employed in the coal industry, who are members of the Coal Mines Provident Fund Scheme 1948 and Coal Mines Pension Scheme 1998 .
I congratulate the workers of the Coal
Industry in
A.N. Bhattacharjee
Commissioner.
Dhanbad, 1st May , 2010.