Pension Day has been observed through out the country by various pensioners organisations on 17th December, 2012.

Com.K.G. Jayaraj,General Secretary inaugurated a well attended Convention, jointly organised by the district units of AIBDPA

and CGPA , Alappuzha in Kerala. Com.Jayaraj narrated a brief history of pension and other pensionary benefits in the country

and the struggles conducted by the unions in the past to achieve the genuine demands of the pensioners.He cautioned about

the big challenges being faced by the workers and pensioners,particularly in the form of PFRDA bill aimed to scuttle the very

concept of statutory pension.The need of the hour is to forge complete unity of pensioners and workers and fight against the

onslaught of the ruling class.In this context he emphasised the importance of two days national strike by all the central trade unions and federations on 20th and 21st February,2013 and appealed to the pension community to support the strike in every respect.Com.Kunju Pillai District President,CGPA,presided and Coms.K.P.Kesavan Nair,T.X.Zacharia,K.G.Pillai,N.Guruprasad and Khalid spoke.

In Palakkad in Kerala also a mammoth convension of pensioners was held jointly by various pensioners organisations which was inaugurated by Com.P.V.Chandrasekharan, All India Patron,AIBDPA with an educative and elaborate speech.