Pension reforms launched with delicate concern for elder residents, ladies: Dr Jitendra

NEW DELHI: Union Minister of State (Unbiased Cost) Science & Know-how; MoS PMO, Personnel, Public Grievances, Pensions, Atomic Vitality and House, Dr Jitendra Singh on thursday  stated, ever since Prime Minister Narendra Modi took cost in Could 2014, a collection of pension reforms had been launched, one after the opposite, with a delicate concern for elder residents and girls specifically.

Newest know-how instruments have been employed to hunt ease of dwelling for these sections of society, he stated.

Chairing the thirty third assembly of the Standing Committee of Voluntary Businesses (SCOVA) and tenth Nation-wide Pension Adalat in New Delhi, Dr Jitendra Singh stated, the Division of Pension is consistently engaged in formulating insurance policies for attaining the aim of ladies empowerment thereby guaranteeing a dignified life and ease of dwelling for ladies.

Dwelling on the Ladies-Centric reforms within the Division of Pensions and Pensioners’ Welfare, Dr Jitendra Singh stated, orders have been issued whereby a divorced daughter, in whose case a decree of divorce was issued after the demise of her mother and father, can be eligible for household pension if the divorce petition was filed earlier than demise of the mother and father.

Equally, the Minister stated, the households of lacking workers lined underneath NPS can now get a household pension inside 6 months of lodging FIR and never await 7 years after which the worker thought of deemed useless. Even in instances the place the Authorities servant dies earlier than finishing a service of seven years, household pension shall be payable to the household at an enhanced fee of fifty% of final pay for the primary 10 years and thereafter @ 30% of final pay.

Even the pension for Divyangs have been resolved to convey ease of dwelling for all, the Minister added.

Dr Jitendra Singh stated that the Division of Pension underneath Prime Minister Narendra Modi has turn out to be the Division of Reforms with enormous social implications. He requested the SCOVA physique which consists of 15 non-official members, representing Pensioner Welfare Associations and Official Members to come back out with solutions and new concepts for the good thing about the division. The Minister knowledgeable that it was on his suggestion {that a} single pension kind was launched as an alternative of the sooner observe of three varieties.

Referring to Jeevan Praman (Digital Life Certificates) launched by the Prime Minister in November,2014, Dr Jitendra Singh underlined that it supplies an choice to pensioner for submission of Digital Life Certificates on-line, anytime and from wherever.

Dr Jitendra Singh additionally took delight in informing the SCOVA members that to boost ‘Ease of Dwelling’ for Pensioners/Household Pensioners, DoPPW in collaboration with MeiTy and UIDAI has developed a “Face-Authentication Know-how” based mostly system to submit Life Certificates from any Android smartphone which was launched by in 2021, the primary by any authorities division..

The Minister additionally underlined that DoPPW coordinated with Banks, India Posts and Cost Financial institution (IPPB) for offering the doorstep facility of DLC submission from residence for incapacitated Pensioners/Household Pensioners. Equally, BHAVISHYA platform, is an built-in on-line pension sanction processing system made obligatory for all Central Authorities Departments w.e.f 01.01.2017.

Dr Jitendra Singh additionally presided over the Nation-wide Pension Adalat, which lined pensioner grievances of 12 Ministries/ Departments together with Ministry of Residence Affairs, Division of Defence Finance, CBDT, Division of Financial Affairs, Division of Ex-Servicemen’s Welfare, Ministry of Housing & City Affairs, Ministry of Railways and Ministry of Tradition. 105 Pensioner Grievances have been listed for dialogue comprising of Superannuation instances, Household Pension Circumstances and Voluntary Retirement Circumstances. 60 % of the instances have been resolved on the spot.

Dr. Jitendra Singh stated, redressal of Pensioners Grievances is a excessive precedence of Modi Authorities and for fast decision of Pensioners Grievances Pension Adalats are being organized by Division of Pension and Pensioners Welfare through which a number of stakeholders are introduced on one platform for on-the-spot redressal.

In 2023, Division of Pension & Pensioners’ Welfare had organized two Pension Adalats on seventeenth Could, 2023 and twenty third October, 2023. Throughout these Adalats, 603 instances have been taken up, out of which 440 instances have been resolved on the spot.

Pensioner Welfare Associations from Gujarat, Odisha, Maharashtra, New Delhi, Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra, Jharkhand, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal, Karnataka and Puducherry could be taking part within the thirty third SCOVA deliberations. DOPT, Ministry of Railways, Ministry of Well being and Household Welfare, Division of Telecom, Division of Expenditure, CPAO, Division of Monetary Companies, CGDA and State Financial institution of India may even be taking part within the deliberations.