From the speech of CHV, it is obvious that he is a reluctant negotiator for improvement/updation in Pension/Family Pension. Luckily, FinMin has considered the plight of the family pensioners of bank employees and felt the need for improvement.
It appears that the Finance Ministry has been caught on the wrong foot by agreeing to RBI Employees demand for a 'systematic'/'well-defined' updation in pension. One may wonder, why it is so ? For, even in the Central Government Employees' (Pension) Rules, there is no provision for updation of pension BUT the Government, in a gratuitous measure, HAS BEEN ISSUING 'EXECUTIVE ORDER' instead of 'amending' Pension Rules every time after implementation of Pay Commission Recommendations in respect of serving employees. This is basically the reason for the IBA (read also FinMin) not agreeing for amendment to Bank Employees' (Pension) Regulations BUT offering payment of a certain lumpsum/some other formula for improvement in Pension & Family Pension. The Bank Unions are guilty, yes guilty, in the previous settlement for not taking up the cause of pensioners/family pensioners in THE EARLIER SETTLEMENTS SIMULTANEOUSLY ; and, HAD THE unions pressed and achieved it, the burden would not have been much that the present situation of 'begging' would not have arisen.
HOW THE UNIONS SHOULD PROCEED IN SUCH A SCENARIO ? Even if the Bank Employees' (Pension) Regulations are not amended as proposed by the IBA, the lumpsum payment to different-periods of pensioners/family pensioners improvement should be such that like one-rank-one-pension. MOST IMPORTANTLY, SECONDLY, it should be ENSURED THAT the implementation of the improvement in pension/familyl pension SHOULD BE SIMULTANEOUS TO implementation of BPS to the serving employees (otherwise, IBA/FinMin will take everyone for a ride as in the past).