Staff Members' Body Looks For Most Current Family Pension Standards For National Pension System (NPS) Staff

INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Department of Pensions and Pensioners' Welfare (DoPPW) came out with detailed notesThe Centre should extend its directive on the grant of
staff body said on Thursday
Manjeet Singh Patel, the Delhi unit president of the National Movement for Old Pension Scheme (NMOPS), said the Ministry of Personnel,
Public grievances and Pensions had in March issued the Central Civil Services (Implementation of National Pension System) Rules, 2021 which
The NMOPS has over 13 lakh central and state government employees as its members.Patel said the Centre and state government have implemented
a share-market based pension system for their employees, including the ones in autonomous organisations since January 2004
grievances related to central government departments -- for implementing the Personnel Ministry's order for all categories of NPS
Echoing Patel's demand, Sushant Panda, the General Secretary of Western Railway Employees Committee for Movement for Old Pension Scheme,
said the Central government should ensure that these rules apply to all categories of NPS employees so that they can take the benefit of
We want that these rules be made applicable to railways and other employees covered under the NPS also so that they get the benefit of the
were notified, the Department of Pensions and Pensioners' Welfare (DoPPW) has come out with detailed notes -- one for employees under Old
Pension Scheme and the other for those under NPS -- to facilitate expeditious disbursement of all entitlements of the family on the death of
a government staff
"In addition, employee's contributions and returns thereon in the NPS pension corpus shall also be paid to the family member," the DoPPW
has said.The head of office will start the process to sanction family pension and simultaneously close Permanent Retirement Account Number
(PRAN) under the NPS
Government contribution and returns thereon would be transferred into the government account, it said