Old pension scheme: The demand for old pension scheme has intensified across the country. Once again a big update has come out regarding the old pension scheme.
A committee was constituted by the Central Government under the chairmanship of the Finance Secretary to make changes in the National Pension Scheme ie NPS. On June 9, a meeting was held with the office bearers of the National Council of Staff Site CM.
old pension scheme should be restored
In the meeting, the committee was clearly told by the representative of the central government employees organization that apart from the old pension, the employees organization will not approve anything else. The only way to solve this problem is to abolish the unguaranteed NPS scheme and restore the old pension scheme.
Constitution of committee for amendment in NPS
In this case, the chairman of the committee assured that attention will be given to all the points of the memorandum given by the staff side. Along with this, whatever issues have been raised during the discussion, they will also be looked into. For the time being, a report is required. Therein an attempt will be made to address the concerns expressed by the staff side. Explain that the committee was formed by the government to amend the NPS.
Labor union demands
Here, in the meeting, the representative of the employees’ organization has given various arguments in support of its demands of the committee. The committee says that NPS should be abolished at all costs and the Guarantee Sudha Purani Pension Yojana should be restored.
Tell that after 2004 there has been a demand to withdraw the National Pension System applicable to Indian employees. The employees union demands that all the employees recruited after January 1, 2004 should be brought under the purview of the old pension scheme under the CCS Pension Rules, 1972. Reforms in NPS are not beneficial to the employees in any way and were never demanded by the employees.
The employees organization says that there is no stability in the National Pension Scheme and the employees, satisfied with the scheme, formed a committee of 4 members under the chairmanship of the regular secretary.
The NPS present in the committee is being reviewed. The responsibility has been given to find out whether there is a need to change its structure and functioning. Apart from the committee, the secretary of JCM attended the meeting. Apart from this, many other officials also attended the meeting.
