Notice from Praveen Sood (Additional Commissioner for Traffic, Mumbai) - 022 22942276.
Information you should have: If you are getting caught quite often by traffic police, then please read on. From now onwards, the Traffic Police cannot catch a motorist just to examine the driving license or vehicle documents. They can catch you only if you have violated any traffic laws or if you are driving drunk. Remember that when caught for traffic violation, the fine you pay must be limited to the violation. In other words, the police can't bloat the bill saying that you have no insurance cover or emission certificate, etc. Many motorists do not know this. According to the law, no policeman can slap a penalty on you just because you have no insurance or emission certificate. If you have not purchased insurance cover for your vehicle, then the police officer must issue a notice, not impose penalty. You must be given 15 days' time to purchase insurance cover and one week for obtaining the emission certificate. Days later, meet the sub-inspector at his station with the insurance cover or emission certificate, so that he will annul the charge at once. Police can fine you only if you fail to produce these documents within the stipulated period. If your vehicle is brand new, then you need not bother about obtaining the emission certificate for one full year. In response to a question as to why policemen fine people instantly without giving them time to obtain insurance cover or emission certificate, Additional Commissioner for Traffic Praveen Sood said, "Yes, it is a mistake. People must force policemen to issue notice or complain to me at least the following day.” The best way to teach the police a lesson is by filing a written complaint with their higher officials and, a week later, using the Right to Information Act (RTI) to know the action taken against them. Remember, any question or application filed under RTI cannot be ignored and no official is bold enough to ignore the RTI Act. Praveen Sood (Additional Commissioner for Traffic, Mumbai) 022 - 22942276.
Showing posts with label Welfare of veterans. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Welfare of veterans. Show all posts
Monday, November 15, 2010
Tuesday, November 9, 2010
Ex-Servicemen will be addressed as Armed Forces Veterans: Veteran Prabhjot Singh Chhatwal PLS (Retd)
Ex-Servicemen will be addressed as Armed Forces Veterans
Appended below is some important info for ESM as published
in AFA (Air Force Association)News, which you may like to know.
1. Provision of ECHS Card (Add On Card) for dependent parents:
Air Hq has taken up a case with ECHS Central Organisation and
MOD for extending this provision to dependent parents.
2. Purchase of Car by Retired PBOR: There is no requirement of
producing/ attaching the copy of driving license by PBOR for
purchase of Four Wheelers. Authy:
QMG Branch letter No. 96410/Q/DDGCS dated 01 July, 2010.
3. Addressing Ex-Servicemen as Armed Forces Veterans:
Based on the recommendations of the Chief of Staff Committee,
Raksha Mantri (MOD) has approved the proposal that henceforth
"Ex-Servicemen" will be addressed as "Armed Forces Veterans"
4. The vacancy circular for selection of administrative members
for AFT (Armed Forces Tribunal) was posted by the MOD on its
website www.mod.nic.in under the link 'new additions'.
Interested members are advised to look out for future vacancies
on the mentioned site.
Friday, August 13, 2010
AFT removes anomalies in disability pension rules :Veteran Prabhjot Singh Chhatwal PLS Retd.
AFT removes anomalies in disability pension rules Extends broad-banding plan benefits to thousands of pensioners.
Vijay MohanTribune News Service
Chandigarh, August 12-In a landmark judgment affecting thousands of disabled personnel, the Armed Forces Tribunal yesterday extended the benefits of “broad-banding” disability pension to those who are released on the completion of their terms of engagement or on superannuation. Earlier, these benefits were applicable only to those invalided out of service on medical grounds.
This had resulted in a peculiar situation wherein the disability pension for an individual discharged even a single day before his actual date of discharge or normal retirement was fixed on the basis of higher disability percentage, while a person discharged on his actual date is not entitled to the same.
Acting upon a petition filed by former vice-chief of the Army Staff, Lt Gen Vijay Oberoi, the Bench comprising Justice NP Gupta and Lt Gen AS Bahia held that withholding the benefit of broad-banding from certain categories of ex-servicemen by the government was discriminatory. The pension of a large number of disabled ex-servicemen may now be enhanced.
In order to curtail medical subjectivity and mottled declaration of disability percentages for similar disabilities by different medical boards, the government had initiated a system of “broad-banding” or “rounding-off” of disability percentages in which it was provided that disability percentages for 20-49 per cent, 50-75 per cent and 76-100 per cent categories would be treated as 50, 75 and 100 per cent, respectively, for calculating disability pension.
The Ministry of Defence, however, added a line in the sanction letter that broad-banding would be applicable only to “invalided” personnel and not to those disabled persons who are released on the completion of terms or on superannuation.
Distinguishing the present case from a Supreme Court judgment in Lt Col PK Kapur vs UOI, where the principle of broad-banding was rejected, the Bench observed that the reason behind the concept of broad-banding and statutory rules concerned had not been then brought to the notice of the SC by the Defence Ministry and, hence, the judgment rendered without full disclosure of facts and law was sub-silentio and not binding on other courts as per the SC’s own rulings.
The MoD had “misleadingly” informed the SC in Kapur’s case that broad-banding was introduced to grant benefit to personnel whose career was cut short due to invalidation. Documents, however, show that the policy was in fact introduced to avoid subjectivity and variance in calculating disability percentage. Further, the SC was also not informed that according to rules, superannuating disabled personnel are deemed as “invalided” for the purpose of granting disability pension.
Vijay MohanTribune News Service
Chandigarh, August 12-In a landmark judgment affecting thousands of disabled personnel, the Armed Forces Tribunal yesterday extended the benefits of “broad-banding” disability pension to those who are released on the completion of their terms of engagement or on superannuation. Earlier, these benefits were applicable only to those invalided out of service on medical grounds.
This had resulted in a peculiar situation wherein the disability pension for an individual discharged even a single day before his actual date of discharge or normal retirement was fixed on the basis of higher disability percentage, while a person discharged on his actual date is not entitled to the same.
Acting upon a petition filed by former vice-chief of the Army Staff, Lt Gen Vijay Oberoi, the Bench comprising Justice NP Gupta and Lt Gen AS Bahia held that withholding the benefit of broad-banding from certain categories of ex-servicemen by the government was discriminatory. The pension of a large number of disabled ex-servicemen may now be enhanced.
In order to curtail medical subjectivity and mottled declaration of disability percentages for similar disabilities by different medical boards, the government had initiated a system of “broad-banding” or “rounding-off” of disability percentages in which it was provided that disability percentages for 20-49 per cent, 50-75 per cent and 76-100 per cent categories would be treated as 50, 75 and 100 per cent, respectively, for calculating disability pension.
The Ministry of Defence, however, added a line in the sanction letter that broad-banding would be applicable only to “invalided” personnel and not to those disabled persons who are released on the completion of terms or on superannuation.
Distinguishing the present case from a Supreme Court judgment in Lt Col PK Kapur vs UOI, where the principle of broad-banding was rejected, the Bench observed that the reason behind the concept of broad-banding and statutory rules concerned had not been then brought to the notice of the SC by the Defence Ministry and, hence, the judgment rendered without full disclosure of facts and law was sub-silentio and not binding on other courts as per the SC’s own rulings.
The MoD had “misleadingly” informed the SC in Kapur’s case that broad-banding was introduced to grant benefit to personnel whose career was cut short due to invalidation. Documents, however, show that the policy was in fact introduced to avoid subjectivity and variance in calculating disability percentage. Further, the SC was also not informed that according to rules, superannuating disabled personnel are deemed as “invalided” for the purpose of granting disability pension.
Saturday, January 30, 2010
Vacancies abroad : Veteran Prabhjot Singh Chhatwal PLS Retd.
Dear Veterans,Regards. There is a welfare
message from Veteran Thomas manimala.
You may avail the chance if you like.
Veteran Prabhjot Singh Chhatwal PLS Retd.
05:42 AM on January 29, 2010
Cryptographers kindly contact me. EX MCTE Mhow.
(IAF) 0097150 1018604, (Vacancy for security guards
/supervisors/security officers please post your resume
PO box 1507 RAK, UAE, Attention , Managing Director ,
Abu Sultan Security Services LLC) or mail at
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