PRESS NEWS
Ministry of
Personnel, Public Grievances & Pensions
UNION MINISTER DR JITENDRA SINGH ANNOUNCES SETTING UP OF
SINGLE WINDOW PORTAL FOR BENEFIT OF PENSIONERS AND SUPERANNUATED ELDER CITIZENS
PORTAL WILL ENABLE CONSTANT CONTACT
WITH PENSIONERS AND THEIR ASSOCIATIONS ACROSS THE COUNTRY AND WILL ALSO
REGULARLY RECEIVE THEIR INPUTS, SUGGESTIONS AS WELL AS GRIEVANCES FOR PROMPT
RESPONSE: DR JITENDRA SINGH
THE MINISTER CHAIRS THE 32ND MEETING OF STANDING COMMITTEE OF VOLUNTARY
AGENCIES (SCOVA) FOR REVIEW AND RATIONALISATION OF PENSION RULES I.E (CCS)
(PENSION) RULES, 2021
Posted On: 12 APR 2022 4:26PM 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 today
announced setting up of Single Window Portal for benefit of pensioners and
superannuated elder citizens. The Portal, he said, will not only enable
constant contact with pensioners and their associations across the country but
will also regularly receive their inputs, suggestions as well as grievances for
prompt response.
Addressing
the 32nd Meeting of Standing
Committee of Voluntary Agencies (SCOVA) for Review and Rationalisation of
Pension Rules i.e (CCS) (Pension) Rules, 2021, Dr Jitendra Singh said under
Prime Minister Narendra Modi, several revolutionary changes were brought in
since 2014 in Pension Rules for bringing “Ease of Living” to the common man.
Dr Jitendra Singh said, the objective of Common Pension Portal
is to create a single window digital mechanism for pensioners to raise their
grievances and get the same resolved without approaching different authorities
in person. He said, all Ministries responsible to process, sanction or disburse
pension dues, are interlinked to this system and grievances are forwarded after
assessment to the concerned Ministry/Department for resolution. Pensioners as
well as Nodal officer can view the status of the grievance online till disposal
in the system.
SCOVA is a useful platform
for holding consultation with the stakeholders i.e. the pensioners through
their Associations and concerned Ministries/Departments. It provides the
Associations an opportunity for raising their issues concerning pensioners’
welfare etc. directly before the concerned Ministries/Departments. Pensioner Associations from Jammu, Jaipur, Tamil
Nadu, Karnataka, Chandigarh and other parts of the country participated in the
meeting.
In today’s meeting,
discussions were held on the issues relating to shortage of doctors in CGHS wellness
centres, periodical health check-up of pensioners, various issues related to
CGHS wellness centre at Jammu, Nomination of Pensioners for life time arrears,
Pension Adalat and Sanction of Grand-in-Aid and Laptop to Identified
Pensioners’ Associations.
Dr. Jitendra Singh said we
need to emphasise making good use of the knowledge, experience and efforts of
the retired employees which can help in value addition to the Department of
Pension & Pensioners' Welfare.
Dr Jitendra Singh informed that since the launch of Doorstep
Service for submission of Digital Life Certificate (DLC) through Postman in
November 2020, more than 3,08,625 Life Certificates through India Post Payments
Bank (IPPB) have been done. The facility to submit life certificate online
through Jeevan PramaanPortal was launched by the Prime Minister in November,
2014 with the objective to provide a convenient and transparent facility to
pensioners for submission of Life Certificate. He also added that Doorstep
banking for collection of Life Certificates is in place in 100 cities by Public
Sector Banks and the number of Life Certificates done through Banking Agents is
4253.
Dr
Jitendra Singh said that Face Authentication Technique through Android phone
for submission of life certificate digitally has been launched on 29.11.2021
and till date, more than 20,500 Life Certificates through face authentication
have been done. Similarly, he informed that as on date total number of DLCs
submitted by the Central Government Pensioners is around 1,07,75,980 /- since
2014. In 2021 total DLCs submitted till date is 19,80,977.
Dr
Jitendra Singh said that the ‘Bhavishya’ platform, an integrated online pension
processing system is at present being successfully implemented in the main
Secretariat of 96 Ministries/ Departments including 813 Attached Offices. As on
date, more than 1,50,000 cases have been processed ie. PPOs issued which
includes more than 80,000 e-PPOs. The Minister also informed that Bhavishya 8.0 released
in August, 2020 with a new feature to PUSH the ePPO in Digilocker. Bhavishya’
is the first application to use the Digilocker Id based PUSH Technology of
Digilocker.
The
Minister said that the Department had started in 2017 the unique experiment of
holding Pension Adalats to resolve chronic grievances of Central Government
Pensioners, falling within the four walls of extant policy and the First
Pension Adalat was held on 20.09.2017. So far, the Department has conducted a
total of 6 Pension Adalats. The next Pension Adalat is scheduled to be held on
05.05.2022.
Dr
Jitendra Singh directed the officials to create widespread awareness of the
initiatives for the welfare of pensioners through official and social media
channels.
Dr
Jitendra Singh said, the earlier Pension Rules were notified 50 years ago in
1972. Since then, a large number of amendments to the CCS (Pension) Rules, 1972
have taken place. He said, in the light of such changes and several office
memoranda clarifying different provisions of these Rules, the Department has
brought out a revised and updated version of the Rules i.e. Civil Services
(CCS) (Pension) Rules, 2021.
Dr
Jitendra Singh clarified that the revised Rules do not make any changes in
regard to entitlement of amount of pension, family pension or gratuity.
However, the new Rules bring about several new policy and procedural
improvements over the Central Civil Services (Pension) Rules, 1972. Also, some
provisions in the old rules, which have become redundant over a period of time,
have been omitted from the new Rules, the Minister added.
Secretary, Department of
Pension & Pensioners' Welfare, Shri V Srinivas also spoke about the recent
reforms and initiatives of the Department.
SNC/RR (Release ID:
1816031)
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