4.The appellant has not realised that most of the workforce in the private sector is drawn from rural areas and consequently, the correct information relating to the right to receive pension under the aforementioned scheme, is not available with them. Firstly, like in the instant case, the trauma that is left behind, due to sudden disappearance of the breadwinner, itself requires lots of character to overcome. That itself consumes considerable amount of time. That explains the reason why on 19.11.2007, for the first time, the writ petitioner laid a claim for pension. The heartless officers of the Employees Provident Fund Organization, which organization has been established for taking care of the welfare and wellbeing of the workforce and their dependents, has not acted with the spirit with which they are expected to act. They kept on delaying the payment of pension on one ground or the other and the only semblance of justification for their conduct was, the fact that the writ petitioner died after rendering only 27 days of service with the contractor of the company. It is no doubt true that false claims, which are too many these days, have to be weeded out carefully, but, in the name of dealing with the suspicious claims, no effort should be spared to settle the pension in a genuine case. Unfortunately, in the instant case, the respondents or the appellant and his officers have kept on returning the proposals for sanction of pension on one ground or the other so that the blame for not settling the pension would not lie at their door step. The essential reason, as we could make https://hcservices.ecourts.gov.in/hcservices/ out, behind this kind of attitude was, lack of appreciation of the pain and suffering of people like the writ petitioner and to ensure that no fault would directly be attributed to themselves.
