Fast unto death protest if NPS is not cancelled, warns NPS employees
Mangaluru, November 18: As the National Pension Scheme (NPS) is detrimental to the state government employees, they would conduct fast-unto-death protest at the Freedom Park in Bengaluru if the NPS is not cancelled, said NPS employees association general secretary Naganagouda.
Delivering a keynote address at the NPS employees district convention and the 12th executive committee meeting at the SCDCC auditorium here on Sunday, he said that the employees have come to the street due to NPS and have been fighting for abolishing the system. They were not fighting against the government, but for their right.
A retired government bill collector who served for 37 years was getting just Rs 685 monthly pension. But a 98 year old person who served as the primary school teacher for 40 years was getting Rs 22,000 pension. Why such anomaly? The state government should cancel the NPS system and reintroduce the old pension scheme to help the retired employees. They were trying to apprise the government of the need to reintroduce the old system. They have the confidence that the state government would consider their demand. If the government failed to respond to their problem, they would fight about it during the Belagavi Session, he said.
NPS is bogus scheme: Ivan D'Souza
MLC Ivan D'Souza said that the National Pension Scheme would not suit to the government employees as it was a bogus scheme. He would support the fight of the employees. It was the duty of the government to consider the fight. He would raise the issue in the next Session, he said.
MLC Ayanur Manjunath said that he would raise the issue in the Belagavi Session.
MLA Vedavyas Kamath also addressed the employees.
Before the conference, the NPS employees took out a protest march from the government employees Bhavan to SCDCC auditorium. Association district president Ibrahim presided over the programme, in which SCDCC president Dr MN Rajendra Kumar, Association state president Shantaram, Senior vice president Siddappa P, State vice president Chandrahas, KEBA Mangaluru Zonal president Manjappa, representatives of various organizations like Shivashankar Bhat, Swany Thavro, Vittal, Jagadeesh, Dileep Kumar, Hariprasad, H.S. Gurumurthy, Roopa, Adarsh, Prof. Rajashekar Hebbar and others were present.
When MLAs are getting pension, why not you? , asks Bhoje Gowda
In a democratic system, the people's representatives like MLAs, MLCs and MPs were getting the pension in the name of honorarium. But it was a serious question as to why the government employees who serve for most of their life, were not getting the pension? The government should introspect it's decision on forcing the government employees who have come to the street for their rights, said MLC Bhoje Gowda.
Right from the Supreme Court judges to elected representatives, their honorarium was being revised on regular basis. He would be with the government employees in their protest. He would arrange the meeting with the Chief Minister within 15 days, he said.
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Jharkhand horror: Man kills live-in partner, chops body into 40 pieces
Ranchi (PTI): A 25-year-old man, who works as a butcher, allegedly strangled to death his live-in partner and chopped her body into 40 to 50 pieces in a forested area in Jharkhand’s Khunti district, police said on Wednesday.
The accused, identified as Naresh Bhengra, was arrested.
The matter came to light after around a fortnight after the killing when a stray dog was found with human body parts near Jordag village in Jariagarh police station on November 24.
Bhengra was in a live-in relationship with the deceased, a 24-year-old woman also from Khunti district, in Tamil Nadu for the past couple of years. Sometime back, he returned to Jharkhand, got married to another woman without telling his partner anything and went back to the southern state without his wife to join her.
"The brutal incident occurred on November 8 when they reached Khunti as the accused who had married another woman did not wish to take her home. Instead, he took her to a forest near his house at Jordag village in Jariagarh police station and chopped the body into pieces. The man has been arrested," Khunti Superintendent of Police Aman Kumar told PTI.
Inspector Ashok Singh who investigated the case said the man worked in a butcher shop in Tamil Nadu and was expert in slicing chicken.
“He admitted chopping the body parts of the woman into 40 to 50 pieces before leaving those in the forest for wild animals to feast on. The police recovered several parts on November 24 after a dog in the area was seen with a hand," Singh told PTI.
Singh said that the woman, who was unaware of his marriage, pressured him to return to Khunti. After reaching Ranchi, they boarded a train on November 24 and headed to the man's village.
"Under a plan, the man took her to Khunti in an autorickshaw near his home and asked her to wait. He returned with sharp weapons and strangulated her with her dupatta after raping her. He then cut the body into 40 to 50 pieces and left for his home to live with his wife," Singh said.
The woman, however, had informed her mother that she had boarded a train and would be living with her partner, the police officer said.
Following the recovery of body parts, a bag was also found in the forest with the murdered woman's belongings including her Aadhaar card. The mother of the woman was called at the spot and she identified her daughter's belongings.
"The mother suspected the man behind the crime who after being nabbed by the police admitted to chopping the woman into pieces," the official added.
The incident has sent shockwaves among people in the region, with the Shraddha Walker murder case of 2022 still fresh in their memory.
Walker was killed by her live-in partner who chopped her body into pieces before dumping them in the jungle in South Delhi’s Mehrauli.
