India’s 1st ‘Pension Adalat’: Now Govt employees can track their pensions on their mobile

NewsBharati    21-Sep-2017
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New Delhi, September 21: India’s first ‘Pension Adalat’ was inaugurated which will help in addressing the grievance redressal on the spot and better administration. Union Minister of State for Development of North-Eastern Region (DoNER) Dr Jitendra Singh inaugurated the first ‘Pension Adalat’ at the Pre-Retirement Counselling Workshop organised by the Department of Pension & Pensioners’ Welfare, Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions, Government of India. 

He also presented the ‘Anubhav’ awards 2017 to 16 pensioners for their contribution towards creating the institutional memory for the departments. On the occasion, Dr Jitendra Singh launched a Mobile App that has been created to avail the services of Pensioners’ Portal. The Secretary to President Sanjay Kothari was the Guest of Honour.

 

Congratulating the recipients of ‘Anubhav’ awards, Dr Jitendra Singh said that under Anubhav, the retiring employees give an account of their experiences during service. These experiences are of great help to the Government, he added. He said that these experiences will become an important account for research and resource for administrative reference and thus will help in improving our working.

While inaugurating the first Pension Adalat, he said that Pension Adalats will help in on the spot redressal of pensioners’ grievances. He said that this will also inspire the states. He appealed to the states to implement the good governance measures taken by the Government.

Highlighting the initiatives of the Government, he said that one of the main initiatives taken was to fix the minimum pension at Rs 1,000. He said that other initiatives such as Bhavishya, Sankalp, Jeevan Praman-digital life certificates, doing away with the obsolete laws and self-attestation, among others have also been taken.

Shri C. Viswanath, Secretary (Pensions) said that the aim of the department is to provide a life to dignity to the pensioners post-retirement. He said that the pension and gratuity amount has also increased considerably. He further said that about 90% pension accounts have been seeded with Aadhar. He said that Mobile App for Pensioners’ Portal is an initiative of moving from e-governance to m-governance. He said that about 3,700 write-ups have been published under Anubhav. Shri Viswanath said that Pension Adalat will help resolve the grievances of pensioners. In future, the Pension Adalats will be set up in other places outside Delhi also, he added.

The Pension Adalats are being convened with the objective of bringing on a common table the aggrieved pensioner, the concerned department, the bank or CGHS representative, wherever relevant, so that such cases can be settled across the table within the framework of extant rules.

The Anubhav scheme had been instituted on the call of Prime Minister Narendra Modi to encourage retiring/retired employees to submit their experiences while working in the government with the objective to create an institutional wealth for the government for future governance as well as to enthuse and inspire the future generations of government officials in their respective assignments.