Press Information Bureau
Government of India
Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances & Pensions
07-February-2014
Meeting of Standing Committee of Voluntary Agencies (SCOVA) HeldSankalp Pilot Project Launched to Channelise Skill and Experience of Pensioners
Union Minister of State for Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions,
Shri V. Narayanasamy has said that with increasing life expectancy,
government servants when they retire have a number of years of active
service left and therefore, the Department, has launched a programme
called ‘Sankalp’ to channelize skill and experience of pensioners into
socially useful and constructive work. This would be taken up on a pilot
basis initially for 500 pensioners.
Addressing the 24th meeting of Standing Committee of Voluntary Agencies
(SCOVA) in New Delhi, Shri Narayanasamy said that an Online Pension
Sanction and Payment Tracking System called ‘Bhavishya’ has been
launched to track the progress of sanction of pension and other
retirement benefits. This would benefit individual pensioners as well as
administrative authorities.
Due to rigorous monitoring, the Department has been able to dispose off
22,498 pension related grievances during the year which resulted in
bringing down the pendency to 6,882 as on 31.12.2013, bringing relief to
a large number of pensioners. The address by the MOS(PP) was followed
by an interactive session with the representatives of the Pensioners
Associations .
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Source: PIB
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