Thiruvananthapuram: Nearly seven months after a committee appointed by Government submitted its report on Partnership Pension Scheme ,National Pension Scheme, NPS) Applicable to state government employees, the government has not taken any decision on the report keeping the secret without disclosing the recommendations of the committee.
After the committee submitted its report to the government on April 30 this year, the report reached the Additional Chief Secretary (Finance). Rajesh Kumar Singh Who examined it on July 20 this year and forwarded it to Finance Minister KN Balagopal, as evident from the government’s electronic file records. The file is now lying on the Finance Minister’s table.
It is reliably learned that the government is slow on the report as the committee recommended that the scheme be continued, which is against the pre-poll assurances of the LDF in 2016 that if the plan is withdrawn. If taken, the plan will be withdrawn. LDF The government comes to power.
NS Satish Chandra Babu The committee was last appointed on November 6, 2018 by UDF The government will reconsider the NPS applicable to employees who have joined service after April 1, 2013. The tenure of the committee, which was originally appointed for a period of six months, was extended four times.
One right to Information The question seeking recommendations of the committee’s recommendations to the government was rejected by the government saying since the matter is “under investigation” and the decision on the report is “important for a large number of government employees”.
The Finance Minister had told the Assembly in August this year that the recommendations of the committee included continuation of the NPS scheme keeping in mind the future financial position of the government. It had also recommended that the government’s share be increased to 14% (which currently stands at 10%), provide death-cum-retirement gratuity (DCRG) to employees under NPS, provide ex-gratia pension to those employees who are NPS. are retiring without completing 10 years, and provide an option to continue in the statutory pension scheme for those employees who received the appointment order before 1st April, 2013 but only after this date due to administrative reasons to join the service.
Out of about five lakh government employees in the state, 1.4 lakh employees are currently under NPS. Even though NPS is implemented in the state, the state government has not yet given the full benefits of NPS to the employees under the scheme, citing that providing all the benefits under it would mean that the state government has not implemented the scheme. Fully supported. The government had spent Rs 70 lakh for the functioning of the committee to revisit the NPS, including the honorarium and other expenses of the chairman and members.
After the committee submitted its report to the government on April 30 this year, the report reached the Additional Chief Secretary (Finance). Rajesh Kumar Singh Who examined it on July 20 this year and forwarded it to Finance Minister KN Balagopal, as evident from the government’s electronic file records. The file is now lying on the Finance Minister’s table.
It is reliably learned that the government is slow on the report as the committee recommended that the scheme be continued, which is against the pre-poll assurances of the LDF in 2016 that if the plan is withdrawn. If taken, the plan will be withdrawn. LDF The government comes to power.
NS Satish Chandra Babu The committee was last appointed on November 6, 2018 by UDF The government will reconsider the NPS applicable to employees who have joined service after April 1, 2013. The tenure of the committee, which was originally appointed for a period of six months, was extended four times.
One right to Information The question seeking recommendations of the committee’s recommendations to the government was rejected by the government saying since the matter is “under investigation” and the decision on the report is “important for a large number of government employees”.
The Finance Minister had told the Assembly in August this year that the recommendations of the committee included continuation of the NPS scheme keeping in mind the future financial position of the government. It had also recommended that the government’s share be increased to 14% (which currently stands at 10%), provide death-cum-retirement gratuity (DCRG) to employees under NPS, provide ex-gratia pension to those employees who are NPS. are retiring without completing 10 years, and provide an option to continue in the statutory pension scheme for those employees who received the appointment order before 1st April, 2013 but only after this date due to administrative reasons to join the service.
Out of about five lakh government employees in the state, 1.4 lakh employees are currently under NPS. Even though NPS is implemented in the state, the state government has not yet given the full benefits of NPS to the employees under the scheme, citing that providing all the benefits under it would mean that the state government has not implemented the scheme. Fully supported. The government had spent Rs 70 lakh for the functioning of the committee to revisit the NPS, including the honorarium and other expenses of the chairman and members.
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