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N.S. Ramegowda spends 16 years in fighting for his gratuity dues IGNOU unable to settle the claim with State Government not remitting the amount BANGALORE: You would expect someone who has held the high post of a Vice-Chancellor to have a smooth-sailing as far as retirement benefits go. But not for the former Karnataka State Open University (KSOU) Vice-Chancellor N.S. Ramegowda, who has been frequenting government offices for 16 years seeking his pension and other settlement dues of about Rs. 15 lakh. Till date, Mr. Ramegowda has not received his pension from the State Government, although he had served the State Department of Collegiate Education for 24 years from 1964 to 1988. Yet, the Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU), where he worked for 15 years and also held the post of its Regional Director, did not make him wait for his pension after his retirement in 2003. Pension from the university reaches him every month. Having worked as a teacher for 39 years, Mr. Ramegowda had hoped to retire in peace. But that was not to be, as he realised after his innumerable visits to different government departments. Physically and mentally exhausted, the former Vice-Chancellor still has no solution in sight as his search for his rightful claim continues. IGNOU had taken the responsibility to disburse his pension, but it wanted the State Collegiate Education Department to remit the gratuity of Rs. 2.58 lakh. The department released the amount in small instalments only to withdraw it, apparently because of wrong and incomplete calculations. IGNOU could not release the amount because the department had not remitted the balance Rs. 50,400 to it. The money was simply locked up. Responding to his letter to IGNOU, the open university had written back: “The State Government whose employee is getting absorbed in a central government/central autonomous body will have to discharge its pension liability by paying in a lump sum as a one-time payment for the service up to the date of absorption by the autonomous body. Since the Karnataka Government is yet to remit the amount, the university is not in a position to settle the pension, family pension by reckoning your service with the Government of Karnataka.” On July 10, the Accountant-General’s office had written to the State Collegiate Education Department to furnish a specific sanction order so that the gratuity amount could be released. But that was four months ago, and Mr. Ramegowda is still waiting.
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