Published On: Tue, Oct 13th,
Centre For Prompt Disposal Of Pensioners Grievances: Jitendra Singh
New
Delhi: The Centre has taken various initiatives for prompt disposal of
all pension-related grievances of pensioners, Union Minister Jitendra
Singh said today and asked departments to focus on best utilisation of
their experience.
Union
Minister Jitendra Singh is today addressing a meeting of the Standing
Committee of Voluntary Agencies (SCOVA),in New Delhi.
Addressing
27th meeting of Standing Committee of Voluntary Agencies (SCOVA), Singh
said due to increasing life expectancy, the number of pensioners in the
country today are larger than the number of serving employees.
The Government is seized of the matter as to how best to utilise the services of the retired employees, he said.
Singh,
Minister of State for Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions, said
the government has taken various initiatives for the prompt disposal of
grievances received from pensioners across the country. The Minister
said that the pendency without reason has to be taken care of
completely.
He
said that they are the human resource with vast experience and the
focus should be on best utilisation of their experience and services.
Singh
called for pre-retirement counselling of the retiring persons so that
their experience can be utilised in best manner and they can be served
in a better way.
Addressing
the meeting, he called upon the pensioners to involve their vast
experience and resources to assume the role of job creators.
Recalling
the ‘Startup India, Standup India’ initiative of the Prime Minister
Narendra Modi, announced from the ramparts of the Red Fort in his
Independence Day speech this year, Singh said the government looks to
the pensioners as a large pool resource to achieve this end and they can
become the torch bearers of this initiative.
As
many as 9,505 pension related complaints have been settled during the
first six months of financial year 2015-16. As on date, only 2,737
grievances are pending.
Speaking
on the occasion, Secretary, Department of Pensions & Pensioners’
Welfare, and Department of Administrative Reforms and Public Grievances,
Devendra Chaudhary, said 2,200 pending pension grievances will be
settled within one month’s time.
Stating
that there are legal issues to be addressed while linking Aadhaar
Number with the Pension Payment Order (PPO), Chaudhary said more than
9,000 Drawing & Disbursal Officers (DDOs) have been linked on the
‘Bhavishya’–an online pension sanction and payment tracking system to
monitor delays in grant of pension and other retirement benefits.
Regards,
E.R.Iyer
