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with the same Development officer. This wasto ensure ethical practices. The CLIA Schemecontradicts this and does not restrict the CLIAagent from appointing these close relatives whocan be appointed only by the same D.O so asto avoid intentional diversification of business.6. The area of operation prescribed is theDivisional area which is to only encouragediversification and visiting agents business. Onthe contrary the D.O’s are denied credits forbusiness placed outside the branch area. Similaris the case with denial of credit to D.O’s forMail order business when the LIC encouragesan agent to diversify abroad to do Mail orderbusiness.7. The job of a CLIA is the same as that of aDevelopment officer. By placing theDevelopment officer’s club member agents inthe same shoes the corporation has degradedand humiliated the Development officer’s. Thepower and authority of supervision ofDevelopment officer’s is intentionally diluted bythe management. This will affect the businessperformance very badly, encouragedisobedience by agents and destroy the teamwork. Already this has started happening wherethe CLIA agents refuse to attend unit meetings,discuss business and go on joint calls. Due tothe CLIA scheme, the business figures of Apriland May 2008 reflects the low business andpulling down of Market share of LIC to 44%as reported by the media. The enemity betweenthe D.O and Agent is being encouraged by thisCLIA Scheme.8. The job of a Development officer requires agraduation while there is no minimumqualification prescribed for the CLIA agent.Even old agents with lower classes of educationon the basis of their club membership areappointed as CLIA. The CLIA Scheme is seenas a back door entry for under qualified andnon suitable persons as equivalent toDevelopment officers. This will also deprive themeritorious candidates from the generalmarket as CLIA will reduce the number ofVacancies of Development officer’s. Theimage of a Development officer will betarnished as under qualified and unprofessionalpersons without any written test and properscreening are made CLIA doing the same jobof a Development officer. There is a starkcontradiction in the policy of LIC asDevelopment officers are not allowed to getpromoted as Assistant Administrative Officer’sstating that D.O’s are not qualified for AAO.We fear and apprehend that eventually theDevelopment officer’s cadre will be abolished andalso lead to the destruction of LIC due todestabilization of the strong Marketing force.9. The management is pressurizing andthreatening the club member agents with direconsequences to force them to apply forCLIA. This projects a bad intention on thepart of the managers and destabilizing themarketing force.10. The pressure and pulls from the Developmentofficer on the club member agent on one sideand the Manager on the CLIA on the otherside will only result in destabilizing the agent,drastic reduction of their new business andrenewal commission. This will slowlydemoralize the agency force and lead to thedestabilization of the marketing force and LIC.11. The CLIA Scheme is unfair and illegal violatingthe provisions of LIC of India Act and IRDAact.We call upon your good self to kindly re-examinethe whole matter of CLIA Scheme based on theabove factors and do the needful to withdraw theCLIA Scheme in the best interest of LIC of Indiaand to motivate the Marketing force.With Best Wishes and Regards,Yours SincerelyR.JayprakashSecretary General12
14 th June’2008The ChairmanLife Insurance Corporation of IndiaCentral office,’Yogakshema’, Mumbai-400 021Ref: Discussions held on 22 nd of May 2008 and request for Condonation of EOL & grant of Competition awardsDear Sir,We thank you for the invitation extended to <strong>NFIFWI</strong> for the discussions which was held on 22 nd ofMay 2008. We were happy to have a very good meeting with open hearted discussions. As informed to youtelephonically we have taken a step forward and suspended our protest programmes. We were happy to havethe management’s immediate positive response with the clearance of the long pending issue of “Credit forrevival of lapsed policies” vide a circular on 26 th of May 2008.We have placed our detailed representation of all our issues for settlement during the discussions on22 nd May. We request you to kindly consider the following issues for favourable solution and orders1. Condonation of EOL on 5 th March’2008, 15 th March’2008 and 31 st March’2008.2. Salary cut to be imposed only for the days of protests, 5 th March’08,15 th March’08 & 31 st March’083. Grant of competition prizes under Big Leap competition and other competitions.4. Condonation of EOL imposed in 2004 which has been pending.5. Condonation of EOL of Ahmedabad division and Delhi I divisionWith Best Wishes and Regards,Yours SincerelyR.JayprakashSecretary GeneralBiennial General Body Meeting ofSrinagar DivisionZonal President Com Shrikant Vashishat deliveredhis welcome address to the members and asked themto have faith in the leadership. Zonal Secretary ComK. C. Sankhyan in his marathon address to the housemade the members aware about the stand and futurestrategies of the Organization on all the issuesincluding CLIA, MOU & GOIB etc.The house elected the following Office bearers.President: Com Rakesh Mangotra.Gen Secretary: Com Liaquat Sultan.7 th Biennial Divisional Council Meet ofJalpaiguri Division under Eastern Zone:Jalpaiguri Divisional Unit under Eastern Zone hassuccessfully concluded their 7 th Biennial DivisionalCouncil Meeting at “Pawan Kumar Gour Mancha(Rabindra Bhavan), Cooch Behar on 12 th & 13 thJune 2008.Shri S. B. Ray, Zonal Secretary, Eastern Zone inauguratedthe meeting. Divisional President Shri ParthaChatterjee in his presidential address briefly narratedthe activities of the National Federation at all leveland requested the members to deliberate on theagenda. Shri Tapas Baran Chandra, DivisionalSecretary placed a very exhaustive report.Shri S. B. Ray, Zonal Secretary, Shri Rajesh Ghosh,Zonal Vice President and Shri Dhananjoy Ghosh,Zonal Joint Secretary addressed the house.New Office bearers arePresident:Mr. Partha ChatterjeeGeneral Secretary:Mr. Tapas Baran Chanda13
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