Department of Pension & Pensioners’ Welfare to conduct workshop

10 Jun 2023: Under the aegis of Dr. Jitendra Singh, Union Minister of State for Personnel, PG, and Pensions, to enhance the “Ease of Living” of pensioners and family pensioners, the Department of Pension & Pensioners Welfare, the Government of India has taken several welfare measures in pension policy as well as in digitization of pension related processes. 

 Department of Pension & Pensioners’ Welfare to conduct a workshop. 

Several amendments to the pension rules have been made, and several clarificatory orders/ instructions have been issued during the last 50 years. These have been consolidated and brought out as Central Civil Service (Pension) Rules, 2021, in December 2021.

Since the major Pension Disbursing Authorities are banks, the Department of Pension and Pensioners’ Welfare has started a series of Awareness Workshops for Central Pension Processing Centers (CPPCs) of Banks as well as their field functionaries handling pension-related work in the bank. 

For this purpose, a Central Government Team led by Shri V. Srinivas, Secretary, Department of Pension and Pensioners’ Welfare, is at Srinagar to conduct a workshop for the State Bank of India officers tomorrow.

Workshops aim to spread awareness of the various rules

These workshops aim to spread awareness of the various rules and procedures relevant to Pension Disbursing Banks and the steps being taken by the Government of India to ensure “Ease of Living” for Pensioners. The workshop shall also focus on the issues faced by Bank officials in handling these processes and pensioners’ grievances and note any suggestions forwarded by the Bank officials.

The workshop for officers of State Bank of India is being held on 10th & 11th July 2023, at Winter Hall, Sher-i-Kashmir International Convention Center, Srinagar, J&K. More than 50 officers from CPPCs and pension dealing branches of State Bank of India are participating in this workshop.  Bankers’ Awareness workshops, on similar lines, will be conducted in collaboration with other Pension Disbursing Banks in 2023-24. 

The workshop is also expected to firm up a road map towards integrating 17 banks with the single-window Integrated Pensioners’ Portal of DoPPW to provide pensioners with a host of services related to pension and banking. Dr. Jitendra Singh inaugurated the integration of the SBI pension seva portal with the Integrated Pensioners Portal in October 2022.