Minister Dr. Jitendra Singh chaired All india pension Adalat 2022

New Delhi: Dr. Jitendra Singh Hon'ble Minister of State (Independent Charge) for the Ministry of Science and Technology and Minister of State (Independent Charge) ministry of earth science and Minister of State for Prime Minister's Office; Personnel, Public Grievances, and Pensions; Department of Atomic Energy and Department of Space today chaired All India Pension Aadat, 2022 at Dr. Ambedkar International Centre, New Delhi.

Joint Secretary Sanjiv Narain Mathur, Secretary V Srinivas, and other official seniors were also presented. The Adalat proceeded with taking issues from pan India along with 200 officials, Ministries. However, they presented the cases in front of Minister Jitendra Singh. Further, he interacted with senior officers regarding the issues faced by the pensioners.

Addressing the 7th All India Pension Adalat in New Delhi, Dr. Jitendra Singh said that steps like an extension of Family Pension to a differently-abled child of a deceased Government employee/Pensioner or giving a major hike in the Family Pension emoluments for Divyang children of a deceased government servant/pensioner are not only pension reforms but these are social reforms having wide implications.

Dr. Jitendra Singh directed the Department's senior officials to come out with a comprehensive “Manual for Pensioners” based on the feedback received from all the Central Ministries/Departments and Subordinate Offices for bringing further ease to pensioners. In the Pension Adalat, the Minister today randomly interacted and obtained feedback from the Pensioners, Staff, and Officers dealing with the cases in Delhi and about 225 locations across the country. Over 1000 cases are listed today for the resolution and the Department is giving special preference to cases pertaining to family pensioners and super senior pensioners aged 80 years and above.

Dr. Jitendra Singh in his concluding remarks said that the primary objective of the exercise is to provide “Ease of Living” to the Pensioners and to prevent litigation that involves financial stress to the pensioner as well to the Government and at the same time is a very lengthy process. It also creates an All-India impact and conveys a message to all the Ministries/Departments/Organizations about the importance this Government attaches to Pensioners’ grievances, the Minister added.

V.Srinivas, Secretary Pension stated that the Department of Pension & Pensioners’ Welfare has ensured end-to-end digitization of the Pension payment process by making BHAVISHYA software mandatory for all the Ministries to process their pension cases. He stated that this software has laid out deadlines for every stakeholder to complete the Pension processing so that the pension is started on time. All Ministries have been instructed that their Nodal Officers should conduct weekly review meetings of pending grievances to ensure accountability of Government officials dealing with Pensioners’ grievances.

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