New Delhi: The minimum pension has been increased to Rs9,000
per person besides a two-fold hike in ex-gratia amount for central
government employees, union minister Jitendra Singh said on Thursday.
Addressing the 29th meeting of the Standing Committee of Voluntary
Agencies (Scova) in the city, he said almost 88% of pension accounts
have been seeded to Aadhaar. There are about 50-55 lakh pensioners in
the country, said Singh, minister of state in Prime Minister’s office.
He
further said that minimum pension has been increased to Rs9,000 per
person and ex-gratia amount has been increased from Rs10-15 lakh to
Rs25-35 lakh, as per a release issued by personnel ministry.
The
Scova meeting is organised by the Department of Pensions and Pensioners’
Welfare (DoP&PW). Singh said there is a need to put in place an
institutionalised mechanism to make good use of the knowledge,
experience and efforts of the retired employees which can help in the
value addition to the current scenario.
He said the retired
employees are a healthy and productive workforce for India and we need
to streamline and channelise their energies in a productive direction.
“We should learn from the pensioners’ experience,” said Singh. The
minister also said that the DoP&PW should be reoriented in such a
way that pensioners become a part of nation building process.
Many
issues related to pensioners were discussed threadbare, such as
revision of Pension Payment Orders of Pre-2006 pensioners, health
insurance scheme for pensioners including those residing in non-Central
Government Health Service (CGHS) area and special higher family pension
for widows of the war disabled invalidated out of service, etc. The
meeting was attended by the member of pensioners associations and senior
officers of the important departments of the central government.
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