PRESS NEWS
Ministry of Personnel, Public
Grievances & Pensions
Public
Awareness Initiatives aimed at Pensioners’ Welfare across the country
Posted On: 16 DEC 2021 3:39PM by
PIB Delhi
Union
Minister of State (Independent Charge) Science & Technology; Minister of
State (Independent Charge) Earth Sciences; MoS PMO, Personnel, Public
Grievances, Pensions, Atomic Energy and Space, Dr Jitendra Singh said,
during the last four years, Department of Pension & Pensioners’
Welfare has conducted 5 Pensioners’ Awareness Workshops towards the schemes
aimed at Pensioners’ Welfare across the country.
In a
written reply to a question in the Rajya Sabha today, DrJitendra Singh informed
that apart from 5 workshops, 15 Pre-retirement Counseling (PRCs) Workshops and
8 Workshops for Training of Trainers (TOTs) were also conducted during the
period.
The
Department also utilizes the Social Media Platforms i.e., Facebook, Twitter and
YouTube. Awareness regarding important orders as well as pension rules are done
through social media for the benefit of pensioners. Theme-based series of
Tweets in Q & A form were carried on ‘Family Pension’ Rules, Know your
retirement benefits, Life Certificate Rules etc. Family Pension entitlements
and Doorstep Service for Digital Life Certificate (DLC) carried out through
short animated videos on YouTube.
The
Minister also informed that the Department of Pension & Pensioners’
Welfare, has been conducting online conferences/ interactions for the
pensioners. The conferences included the following:
- An online workshop covering Pensioners
from ten (10) different cities of Northern region was held on 07.09.2021.
Another workshop was held on 28.10.2021 which covered pensioners from
various cities in India.
- Pension Rules and use of Digital Life
Certificate (JeevanPramaan) were demonstrated during both the workshops.
- First ever on-line All India Pension
Adalat held in December 2020 by leveraging technology through Video
Conferencing.
- For ensuring preventive health care of
pensioners living in 20 Indian cities, an online programme was organized
during which Yoga professional gave a demonstration to Pensioners in order
to boost immunity during lockdown and to stay fit.
- To address the psychological health of
pensioners, this Department had scheduled an interactive session on the
topic “Power of Thoughts and Meditation in COVID-19 pandemic”.
The
Department of Pension & Pensioners’ Welfare has released the following
e-publications for Ease of Pensioners:
i.
A handbook on Family Pension
ii.
Compendiums 2019 & 2020
iii.
Consolidated instructions on 7th CPC related orders
iv.
Clickable e-book on Retirement benefits.
vi.
Ease of Life for Pensioners-Digital Life Certificate.
SNC/RR (Release
ID: 1782230)
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