Centre Permits Lady Workers To Nominate Son, Daughter For Household Pension – Kashmir Observer

New Delhi- In a path-breaking resolution with far-reaching socio-economic impression, the Centre has allowed girl workers to appoint her son or daughter for household pension, as a substitute of her husband, in line with an official assertion issued on Monday.

Beforehand, household pension was granted to the partner of a deceased authorities servant or pensioner, whereas different members of the family turned eligible solely after the partner’s ineligibility or demise, the assertion mentioned.

Union Minister of State for Personnel Jitendra Singh mentioned that the Division of Pensions and Pensioners’ Welfare (DoPPW) has launched an modification to the Central Civil Providers (Pension) Guidelines, 2021, permitting feminine authorities workers or pensioners to grant household pension to their eligible youngster/kids after their very own demise, rather than of their partner.

The modification will handle conditions the place marital discord results in divorce proceedings or circumstances filed underneath legal guidelines such because the Safety of Ladies from Home Violence Act, Dowry Prohibition Act or the Indian Penal Code, he mentioned.

“In a path-breaking resolution with far reaching socio-economic impression and in step with Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s coverage to offer equitable rights to ladies, the federal government has amended the long-standing established rule, thereby granting the lady worker the appropriate to appoint her son or daughter for household pension, as a substitute of her husband as has been observe thus far,” mentioned the assertion issued by the Personnel Ministry.

Singh mentioned, the modification is according to PM Modi’s coverage of giving simply and bonafide rights to the ladies functionaries in each sector.

The DoPPW mentioned, the feminine authorities servant or pensioner should make a written request to the involved head of workplace, stating that household pension needs to be granted to her eligible youngster/kids in priority to her partner, within the occasion of her dying in the course of the ongoing proceedings.

“If the feminine authorities servant or pensioner passes away in the course of the proceedings, the household pension will probably be disbursed accordingly,” the assertion mentioned.

If a lady worker is survived by a widower with no eligible youngster, the household pension will probably be payable to the widower, it mentioned.

Nonetheless, if the widower is the guardian of a minor youngster or a toddler affected by a psychological dysfunction, the household pension will probably be payable to the widower, so long as he stays the guardian, the assertion mentioned, including that when the kid attains majority and stays eligible for household pension, it is going to be payable on to the kid.

For circumstances the place the deceased feminine authorities servant or pensioner is survived by a widower and kids who’ve attained majority however are nonetheless eligible for household pension, the household pension will probably be payable to such kids, it mentioned.

Singh mentioned {that a} collection of governance reforms have been launched underneath the Prime Minister to offer an enabling atmosphere for working ladies.

The minister mentioned that the Division of Personnel and Coaching (DoPT) has taken concerted efforts to extend the illustration of ladies in central authorities jobs and to offer them a steadiness between skilled in addition to household life.

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