Aadhaar Seeding cum Registration Camp being held in Laxmi Nagar today
The Aadhaar Seeding and Regularization for pensioner in Delhi NCR in collaboration with the Punjab National Bank is being held at Auditorium Hall, Scope Tower, Laxmi Nagar of Delhi NCR, today. These camps are being held by the Department of Pension and Pensioner’s Welfare for the benefit of the pensioners. Similar camps were held in Rajendra Place and Civil Lines areas of Delhi NCR on July 13, 2015 and July 14, 2015 respectively.
Pensioners residing in the Laxmi Nagar area of Delhi NCR may visit an Aadhaar Camp held today at Auditorium Hall, Scope Tower, Laxmi Nagar, Delhi with original PPO, Aadhaar Card, and bank pass book along with photocopies of these documents before 5.00 pm.
Pensioners who do not have Aadhaar number yet may in addition carry a photo ID like Voters Card. Jeevan Pramaan is in addition to the other existing facilities for submission of Life Certificate. All the Nationalised banks, as also UIDAI will participate in these camps which are proposed to be held later in other parts of the country.
Aadhaar camp will be held in Sector 1, Noida on July 16, 2015 at Punjab National Bank, C-13 Sector -1 Noida near Sec 15 Metro Station.
For implementation of Jeevan Pramaan- an Aadhaar based life certification system - all pensioners are requested to furnish their Aadhaar Numbers to their bank, if not already done. The pensioners who do not have “Aadhaar” are requested to obtain Aadhaar number.
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Showing posts with label PENSION. Show all posts
Wednesday, July 15, 2015
Aadhaar Seeding cum Registration Camp
Friday, June 19, 2015
One Rank One Pension Latest News - Retired Defence Personnel Protesting Over One Rank One Pension Begin Relay Hunger Strike
Retired Defence Personnel Protesting Over One Rank One Pension Begin Relay Hunger Strike
NEW DELHI: Ex-servicemen across the country began an indefinite relay hunger strike today, demanding that the government announce a date for the introduction of the 'One Rank One Pension' policy.
Hundreds of retired defence personnel held protests yesterday too, and sought President Pranab Mukherjee's intervention. Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar has assured them the "promises" made would be kept and that they should be "patient".
The OROP was a key poll promise of the BJP-led government, but its introduction has been delayed. What made it more difficult was that it involved various departments. Sources told NDTV that the file is shuttling between the finance and defence ministries.
The Narendra Modi government has said that it is committed to the policy but has refused to specify a timeline for its implementation. Last month, the Prime Minister touched upon the issue during his monthly radio address, Mann ki Baat, saying, "You have been patient for 40 years, wait for some more time. This is a complex issue... I promise we will hold discussions and resolve it."
"The Prime Minister's voice still echoes in our minds when he roared at the ex-servicemen rally on September 15, 2013, in Rewari and demanded a white paper on OROP from the UPA Government. He did not stop there, but declared that had there been BJP government in 2004, OROP would have been a reality by now," read a statement released by the Indian Ex-Servicemen Movement, which is spearheading the agitation.
The scheme seeks to ensure that defence personnel who retire at the same rank and with the same length of service, will get equal pension, irrespective of when they retired. Close to 22 lakh ex-servicemen and over six lakh war widows stand to be its immediate beneficiaries.
Currently, the pension for retired personnel is based on the Pay Commission recommendations at the time when he or she retired. So, a Major General who retired in 1996 draws less pension than a Lieutenant Colonel who retired after 1996.
Source:http://www.ndtv.com/  | |
Message for employees retiring within the next six months-DOPT
Message for employees retiring within the next six months-DOPT
Department of Pension & Pensioners’ Welfare
PRE – RETIREMENT COUNSELLING WORKSHOP
Important message for employees retiring within the next six months
The Department of Pension and Pensioners Welfare is organizing a Pre-retirement counselling workshop on 29th June, 2015 from2.00 PM to 5.00 PM in the Lecture Room-II, India International Centre (Annexe) 40, Max Muller Marg, New Delhi-110003.
The employees of Government of India retiring within the next six months and who have not attended the workshop yet are hereby informed that they may attend the workshop. Confirmation with Name, Ministry & Phone No. may be sent at the emailaddressmkumar.mol@nic.in.
The persons desirous of attending the workshop are also requested to bring their PAN and Aadhar No. A write-up on the Commendable works done by the retiring employee during his entire service is also required to upload the same on ‘ANUBHAV’ on website persmin. nic.in/pension .asp
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US (Sankalp)
Department of Pension & Pensioners’ Welfare
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PM Suggests Aadhaar-Based E-Tracking Of Pension Cases
PM Suggests Aadhaar-Based E-Tracking Of Pension Cases
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi has suggested an Aadhaar-based online system to check delay in processing cases of pensions.
The Prime Minister during a recent video-conference, while discussing problems being faced by Defence pensioners, with senior government officials of Personnel and other ministries had “stressed the need for using Aadhaar based system solutions”.
“He (had) also stated that e-tracking of pension matter would be a good step towards preventing delays,” according to minutes of meeting held on June 3, on Aadhaar-based authentication of life certificate for pensioners.
The Prime Minister suggested putting in place an e-tracking system to monitor delays in pension cases. “It was agreed that possibilities of the Online Tracking System for Pension Sanction and Payment (Bhavishya) being adopted by Ministry of Railways, Ministry of Defence, Department of Posts and Department of Telecommunications would be explored,” it said.
Officials from Department of Financial Services(DFS), present during the meeting, informed that all banks have started accepting digital life certificates (DLCs). So far 2,06,024 pensioners have submitted DLCs. Of these, 1,47,629 take pension through banks and 35,135 through Defence Pension Disbursement Offices.
There are about 55 lakh central government pensioners across the country.
Representatives of the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) informed the meeting that Ministry of Railways, Indian Army and Indian Air Force have been appointed as registrars for enrolment for Aadhaar numbers.
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Wednesday, May 13, 2015
EPS pensioners assured of minimum pension of Rs. 1000 per month
EPS pensioners assured of minimum pension of Rs. 1000 per month
EPFO settles 11.77 lakh claims in April 2015:77% of EPF claims settled within 10 days
The Employees Provident Fund Organisation(EPFO) has settled 11.77 lakh claims were settled in the month of April itself. This fact emerged while reviewing the performance of EPFO in the first month of the new financial year 2015-16. According to Shri K.K. Jalan, CPFC showing an improvement in the time taken for settlement, 48% of the claims were settled within 03 days and 77% were settled within 10 days. More than 15 crore annual accounts were updated in the first two working days of the financial year which is a historical first and this was made possible by the adoption of new updated software by the organization.
A decision was also taken regarding continuation of minimum pension of Rs 1000 to the pensioners of EPS, 1995 on a perpetual basis. This move is expected to benefit more than 19 lakh pensioners who would otherwise draw less than Rs. 1000 as pension under EPS, 1995.
Grievance redressal continued to be given top most priority. More than 14,000 grievances were settled in the month of April leaving a balance of 3,354 grievances pending. Of these more than three-fourths were pending for less than 15 days. As grievance monitoring is being done at the highest level in the government under PRAGATI programme, comprehensive guidelines were also issued to further minimize the number of pending grievances.
A conference of the ten Zonal Addl. CPFCs also took place in last month. Several important decisions directly affecting the working of the organization were taken. Top priority is to be accorded to activation of UAN and also to activate e-life certificate, “Jeevan Praman Patra” for EPS pensioners.Use of e-governance tools has to be adopted in all functional areas including compliance management. This would help the organization in better monitoring and also foster a conducive compliance environment It was also decided to initiate efforts for making the members’ passbook on the portal, available in vernacular languages also, for the benefit and convenience of the PF subscribers.
Source:http://www.pib.nic.in/  | |
Monday, April 20, 2015
Pensioners seek merger of 50 p.c. DA with pay
Pensioners seek merger of 50 p.c. DA with pay
The Tamil Nadu Government Education Department Retired Ministerial Employees’ Association has urged the State government to merge 50 per cent of dearness allowance with pay to benefit both in service employees and retired personnel.
A resolution adopted at its state executive meeting here on Sunday wanted the Treasury Officers to issue identity cards to pensioners.
Another resolution wanted some concession in the bus fare for the retired employees.
The following were elected state office-bearers of the association: B. Viswanathan - president; N. Subbiah vice-president, and A. Janarthanam - general secretary.
Source:http://www.thehindu.  | |
Saturday, March 28, 2015
aadhar based Digital Life Certificate (Jeevan Pramaan): CPAO O.M. Dated 20.03.2015
aadhar based Digital Life Certificate (Jeevan Pramaan): CPAO O.M. Dated 20.03.2015
GOVERNMENT OF INDIA
MINISTRY OF FINANCE
DEPARTMENT OF EXPENDITURE
CENTRAL PENSION ACCOUNTING OFFICE
TRIKOOT-II,BHIKAJI CAMA PLACE.
NEW DELHI-110066
CPAO/Tech/Jeevan Pramaan /2014-15/218-259
20.03.2015
Office Memorandum
Subject:- Aadhar based Digital Life Certificate (Jeevan Pramaan)
The Hon’ble Prime Minister has launched “Jeevan Aadhaar”(Aadhaar based biometric verification system for pensioner). To make its implementation successful Department of Financial Services has constituted a sub-group comprising of RBI, Indian Bank’s Association (IBA),, State Bank of India, Punjab National Bank, Bank of Baroda and Canara Bank. Accordingly,'RBI, IBA and Department of Financial Services have issued necessary guidelines/ instructions to all banks for their convenience. To implement Jeevan Pramaan it is necessary on the part of banks to seed the Aadhaar number with Pension
In the above context Addl. CGA has taken a meeting on 24.12.2014 with the discuss the further strategy for speedy implementation of the system. In the meeting, it was decided that to ensure the genuineness of the pensioner it is necessary to seed the Aadhaar number with PPO and pensioners bank account. Because at present banks are not having pensioners’ data base on their server to link them with the details of PPOs and Aadhaar numbers, they were advised to prepare a data-base of pensioners account first at the earliest and link them with Aadhaar server. For this purpose, they will call the pensioners to come to bank alongwith their original Aadhaar card and its photocopy for identification. The designated officer of the bank will identify the pensioner with reference to the PPO and KYC document and seed his pension account with Aadhaar server.
He will keep the photocopy of Aadhaar Card in the pensioners’ folder for record. The bank will apply this strategy immediately with those pensioners whose life certificates are still pending and are interested to opt for digital certification of their life. Thereafier, they may complete this task well before November, 2015, when life certificate becomes dues.
A column for Aadhaar number has been provided in the format of master data and made available on CPAOs website. All CPPCs are advised to update their master data duly seeded with PPO number & bank account numbers and send the same to CPAO by e-mail at cpao.masterdata{@}gmail.com at the earliest so that CPAO also updates its master data for validation purpose.
This task must be completed on top priority basis.
(Dilip Kumar)
Controller of Accounts
Source: http://cpao.nic.in/pdf | |
Sunday, March 15, 2015
Digital Life Certificate for Pensioners; More Than One Crore Pensioners May be Benefitted by the Scheme
Digital Life Certificate for Pensioners; More Than One Crore Pensioners May be Benefitted by the Scheme
Under the ‘Digital India Mission’, Government has launched ‘Jeevan Pramaan – an Aadhaar based Digital Life Certificate’ for pensioners on 10.11.2014. This facility provides an option to the pensioners to submit their life certificate digitally by authenticating biometrically using UIDAI Database. The pension disbursing agencies integrated with the Jeevan Pramaan Portal will get access to digital life certificate. The pensioners need not go to the pension disbursing agency in person.
Aadhaar numbers is used for bio-metric authentication of pensioners. All pensioners having Aadhaar number may avail this facility. More than one crore pensioners may be benefitted by the scheme. Government has taken a number of steps to bring awareness among the pensioners regarding the digital life certificate scheme such as publicity through leading newspapers, organization of camps for pensioners, regular meetings with pension disbursing agencies etc. This was stated by Shri Jayant Sinha, Minister of State in Ministry of Finance in written reply to a question in the Lok Sabha today. Source:http://www.pib.nic.in/  | |
Wednesday, December 17, 2014
Pension promise in peril?OROP ARTICLE IN TOI
Pension promise in peril?OROP ARTICLE IN TOI
Military veterans claim babus are thwarting PM Modi's poll pledge of one-rank-one-pension by inflating its cost estimates
Roman emperor Augustus started the tradition of military pensions in 13 BC, when every legionary who had fought 20 years for Rome was guaranteed a pension for-life. It set the bar for modern armies, and independent India continued the British tradition of financially privileging military service until the mid-1970s, when soldiers were paid more than civilian bureaucrats, in service and after retirement. All that changed with the Third Pay Commission, which brought military salaries in line with civil services, and while soldiers have long complained about political control over the military in independent India mutating into bureaucratic control, a row over the NDA's promise for one-rank-one-pension (OROP) for military veterans is raising questions about the government's ability to translate its intent into action.
Fifteen months after Narendra Modi first demanded it immediately after being anointed the BJP's PM candidate, 10 months after the UPA government granted it, five months after NDA's finance minister Arun Jaitley confirmed it and almost two months after the PM told soldiers in Siachen that it was his "destiny that onerank-one pension has been fulfilled", military veterans are questioning why the promise has still not been implemented.
Number games
Put simply, OROP means that every pension-eligible soldier who retires in a particular rank deserves the same pension, irrespective of date of retirement. Currently, soldiers who left the armed forces more recently receive more than those who did earlier, because successive pay commissions hiked salaries. Two days after he was anointed BJP's PM-candidate in September 2013, Modi vehemently supported the OROP demand at a veterans' rally in Rewari. With roughly 12 lakh veterans also constituting a huge vote-bank, UPA government approved the demand in February 2014, and it was reaffirmed by NDA in July, when finance minister Arun Jaitley specifically provisioned Rs 1,000 crore in his 2014-15 budget (within an overall defence pensions budget of Rs 51,000 crore). Yet, it remains stuck in bureaucratic wrangling.
At the heart of the problem are bureaucratic disagreements over costs. The finance ministry told a parliamentary committee in 2011 that it would cost Rs 1,300 crore a year while defence ministry pegged annual cost estimates at Rs 3,000 crore. Yet, now that OROP has been approved, the Comptroller of Defence Accounts has reportedly put the bill as high as Rs 9,300 crore per annum (see charts).
Defence minister Manohar Parikkar has held stakeholder meetings to resolve the crisis, most recently on December 10, with no clear solution yet. Veterans' groups are perplexed at the changing goalposts, blaming the bureaucracy for being obscurantist. Says Lt Gen SK Bahri (retd), chairman, Alliance of Ex-Service men Organisations: "The bureaucracy is fighting a rear-guard action. It is not difficult to find funds but our problem is the lower bureaucracy which can stop anything in the ministry . We are fighting an internal enemy ."
Veteran groups, fighting the OROP battle for at least two decades, claim they don't have the ears of the leadership."Whatever the bureaucracy tells them, they believe," says Lt Col Inderjit Singh, chairman, All-India Ex-Services Welfare Organisation. Reassuring doubters, Parrikar was recently quoted as saying that "the government is seriously considering implementing the one-rank-one-pension policy" and the "announcement will be made in four to eight weeks".
His words may reassure veteran groups who have been organizing protest rallies. Their social media networks are full of invective and a growing sense of "betrayal" and "disillusionment", which is fast gaining a political edge. The fight for OROP, in this narrative, is turning into a new cipher for the ever-present military trope of overbearing bureaucrats being allowed to ride rough-shod over them in a defence ministry that is still not integrated with service headquarters, as in other liberal democracies.
The problem is that different departments used different formulas to calculate costs but as Major Navdeep Singh, advocate in Punjab and Haryana High Court points out, "the directive to break this logjam has to come from the top". "There seems to be an anti-services sentiment in the lower bureaucracy ," he adds, "but higher echelons must overrule such disputes."
Soldiers vs civilians
The case for OROP is predicated on military terms of service being much harsher than those for civil services. Most soldiers retire between 35-37 years of age, while officers below brigadier-or-equivalent do so at 54, with limited re-employment options. Civil servants, in contrast, retire at 60.
Moreover, the Sixth Pay Commission granted the facility of what bureaucrats call "non-functional upgrade" (NFU) to officers in all-India Group A services.This is a sort of `pay-promotion', allowing them, under certain conditions, to draw higher pay than their rank, without actually being promoted. Almost all civil servants benefit from this while defence services officers do not, even as their career pyramid is much steeper.Only 0.8% of defence officers make it to the rank of major general after 28 years of service, compared with a much higher rate of civil servants who are eligible to become joint secretaries at 19 years of service. As Major Navdeep Singh says, veterans see NFU as a sort of "OROP by backdoor for civil servants".
Many distinguished veterans argue that they are only asking for what was promised to them, pointing to the aphorism of Chankaya, the architect of the Mauryan empire, who is said to have advised his prodigy Chandragupta Maurya thus: "The day a soldier has to demand his dues will be a sad day for Magadha. From then on you have lost all moral sanctions to be King."
Source:http://timesofindia. | |
Thursday, December 11, 2014
Pre-retirement counselling workshop on 23rd December, 2014-Pensioners porta
Pre-retirement counselling workshop on 23rd December, 2014-Pensioners portal
RETIREMENT COUNSELLING WORKSHOP
Important message for employees retiring within the next three months
The Department of Pension and Pensioners Welfare is organizing a Pre-retirement counselling workshop on 23rd December, 2014 from 2.00 PM to 5.00 PM in the Conference Room of Department of Administrative Reforms, 5th Floor, Sardar Patel Bhawan, New Delhi. The employees of Government of India retiring in the next 3 months are hereby informed that they may attend the workshop.
Confirmation with Name, Ministry and Phone No. may be sent at the email address tripi[dot]ghosh[@]nic[dot]in
Director (PP)
Department of Pension & Pensioners’ Welfare
Phone No. 24624802
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Wednesday, December 10, 2014
Identification of Pensioners Associations under the Pensioners’ Portal- A Mission Mode Project under NeGP.
Identification of Pensioners Associations under the Pensioners’ Portal- A Mission Mode Project under NeGP.
F.No.55/1112014-P&PW(C)
Government of India
Department of Pension & Pensioners’ Welfare
3rd Floor, Lok Nayak Bhawan, Khan Market, New Delhi
Dated the 8th December ,2014
Identification of Pensioners Associations under the Pensioners’ Portal- A Mission Mode Project under NeGP.
A Mission Mode Project Pensioners’ Portal under NeGP entrusted to Department of P&PW aims at the welfare of Central Civil Pensioners across the country. Its specific objective is to facilitate redressal of Pensioners grievances and provide detailed information, guidance etc. on pension and other retirement related matters through various stake holders. The project envisages inter-alia association of registered Pensioners Associations of Central Government Employees and other welfare organizations in the implementation process. The Pensioners Associations so identified are also expected to assist the department in implementation of its project “SANKALP” which is a recent innovative initiative of the department launched to channelize the skills and resources of pensioners towards constructive work in the society. The Pensioners Associations already involved in social activities will thus be preferred in the matter of their identification under the Portal.
Under the above project this Department has already identified a number of Pensioners Associations on the basis of the following broad criteria. These Associations are given one time hardware/software and annual Grant-in-Aid up to Rs.75,000/- per annum to participate in the implementation of the scheme to defray expenses on certain approved components such as telephone/internet connection, stationary etc.
The Department has already on its role 43 Pensioner Associations. A list of these identified Pensioners Associations and the Cities/States where they are located is available on this Department Website at http://pensionersportal.gov.in
To broad base the efforts towards meeting the objectives of Pensioner Portal, this Department now intends to identify more Pensioners Associations in 2014-15 from various Cities/States. Preference will however be given to Central Government Pensioners Associations from the unrepresented Cities/StatesIUTs, which are Arunachal Pradesh, Bihar, Chhatisgarh, Goa, Himachal Pradesh, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Sikkim , Tripura, Andaman & Nicobar Islands, Daman & Diu, Dadar & Nagar Havelli and Lakshdweep, looking after the welfare of Central Government pensioners. The Department of Pension & Pensioners Welfare will have sole discretion either to accept or reject the request for identification and its decision will be final and binding. The Central Government Pensioners Associations desirous of getting identified under the Pensioners Portal may send their details as indicated below alongwith copies of relevant documents with reference to above criteria alongwith a write up on their vision/plan to work towards welfare of Central Government Pensioners to Department of Pension and Pensioners Welfare at the address given above within 15 days from the date of its publication* in Newspapers, super scribing – “Identification under Pensioners Portal”.
(a)Name of Pensioners’ Association with Address etc.
(b) Date of Registration/incorporation
(c) MOA & rules, if any
(d) Objectives of the Association
(e) Sources of funding
(t) Total membership of the Association
(g) Audited Accounts for last 3 years
(h) Annual Activities Report for last 3 years
(i) Publication/journal details
(j) Composition of General Body
(k) No of General Body Meetings held
(I) Premises (whether hired or owned) by the Association
(m)Infra-structural details
(n) With whom the Association interact frequently
(0) Contact details such as Phone No./Mobile No.E-mail ID of Main Functionary of Association
(p) PAN No.1 Name of Bank, Brach, IFSC Code/Account No. of the Association
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(Manoj Kumar)
Under Secretary to the Government of India
Source:http://ccis.nic.in/ | |
Wednesday, December 3, 2014
Simplification of Pension Procedure
Simplification of Pension Procedure
The Ministry of Rural Development is administering National Social Assistance Programme (NSAP), Indira Gandhi National Old Age Pension Scheme (IGNOAPS), Indira Gandhi National Disability Pension Scheme (IGNDPS), Indira Gandhi National Widow Pension Scheme (IGNWPS), National Family Benefit Scheme (NFBS) and Annapurna. These Schemes are for the households living Below Poverty Line (BPL). Under these schemes pension/assistance is provided to the eligible BPL households on fulfilling the eligibility criteria prescribed by the Government.
On the basis of representation received from various quarters for simplification of procedure and process for implementation of schemes under NSAP, the Ministry of Social Justice & Empowerment has issued two advisories, requesting States/UTs to adopt such procedure and process which do not put the onus of identification and selection on the beneficiaries and as far as possible adopt a procedure which is simple and requires minimum documents and certification. Copies of the Advisories issued.
This information was given by the Minister of State for Social Justice and Empowerment, Shri Vijay Sampla in a written reply to a question in Lok Sabha here today.
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