Dr Jitendra Singh to inaugurate 8th All India Pension Adalat in Delhi

Union Minister of State (Independent Charge) Science & Technology; Minister of State (Independent Charge) Earth Sciences; MoS PMO, Personnel, Public Grievances, Pensions, Atomic Energy and Space, Dr Jitendra Singh will inaugurate the 8th All India Pension Adalat in Delhi, where chronic cases will be taken up and resolved.

The Pension Adalat will be linked through VC at different locations where Pension Adalats are being organized by Min/Depts across India to take up complicated cases. Till date 7 All India Pension Adalat have been organised by the Department, in which 24218 cases have been taken up and 17235 cases have been resolved.

The Minister will also preside over the 50th PRC (Pre-Retirement Counselling) Workshop in New Delhi tomorrow. Conducted by Department of Pension & Pensioners’ Welfare, this PRC is being organized for 1200 officers of all Ministries/Departments who are going to retire in next 6 months.

The workshops will benefit retiring central government civil employees and pension dealing officials on the following aspects like formalities necessary for timely payment of retirement benefits, how to fill pension forms on BHAVISHYA, brief on Integrated Pensioners’ Portal and Bhavishya, CGHS/Fixed Medical Allowances after retirement, Income Tax Incentives for Senior Citizens/Pensioners, DLC, Face authentication, Pensioners Associations and ANUBHAV, i.e., the platform for showcasing outstanding work done during service.    

So far 49 PRCs have been conducted by the Department – 29 for various Ministries/Departments in Delhi and 20 for the CAPFs, i.e., CRPF, BSF and Assam Rifles in New Delhi, Jalandhar, Shillong, Kolkata, Tekanpur, Jammu, Jodhpur and Guwahati. In all 6972 retiring personnel attended these PRCs.

The Department of Pension & Pensioners’ Welfare has now decided that keeping in view the rationale for integrating portals viz. Ease of Living for the Pensioners at large, all portals like Pension Disbursing Bank portals, ANUBHAV, CPENGRAMS, CGHS etc. should be integrated in the newly created “Integrated Pensioners’ Portal” (https://ipension.nic.in). The task of Integration of Pension Seva Portal of SBI and Canara Bank with Bhavishya portal have been completed. With this integration, the pensioners can now get their pension slip, status of submission of Life Certificate and Form-16 through the Integrated Pensioners’ Portal. All 18 Pension disbursing banks will be integrated in Integrated Pensioners’ Portal.

The Pension Adalat initiative was started on experimental basis in 2017 by the Department of Pension & Pensioners’ Welfare. In 2018 National Pension Adalat was held by leveraging technology for speedy resolution of Pensioners’ grievance. The model adopted is that all stakeholders to a particular grievance are invited on a common platform and the case is resolved as per every stake holder to complete the Pension processing so that pension is started on time.

In line with the Government’s objective of transparency, digitization and service delivery, the Bhavishya platform introduced by this Department has ensured End-to-End digitization of the Pension processing and payment. The Bhavishya system has got the 3rd rank among all the Central Government e-Governance Service Delivery Portals as per the NeSDA Assessment 2021.