Minutes of the Pre
Retirement Counseling workshop held on 31st May,2016
Minutes of the Pre
Retirement Counseling workshop held on 31st May,2016 at Vigyan Bhawan under the
chairmanship of Secretary (Pension)
A Pre Retirement Counseling
workshop was conducted on 31st May,2016 at Vigyan Bhawan, New Delhi for
retiring employees of various Ministries/Departments of the Central Government.
At the outset, Joint
Secretary (Pension) welcomed the participants and gave a brief overview of the
workshop. During the technical sessions she informed the participants about the
road map for sanction of pension and other retirement benefits and the role and
responsibility of the retiring employee as well as that of Head of Office for
timely payment of retirement dues. Participants were asked to complete all
formalities in time and submit Form 5 to Head of Office. Head of Departments
were requested to monitor the delay at various stages through Bhavishya.
In the next session,
participants were informed about Sankalp, the scheme of Department of Pension
& PW for engaging pensioners for voluntary work. Retiring employees were
asked to share their experience through Anubhav portal so that the institutions
could benefit from their experience and the institutional memories could be
strengthened. The Anubhav forms submitted by pensioners were collected.
Dr.Tiwani, Director, CGHS
informed the participants about the CGHS scheme for pensioners and family
pensioners and the procedure to get temporary card after retirement.
In the next sessions basic
advice on investment, preparation of will and benefits available to senior
citizens including Income Tax benefits were also covered.
During the question and
answer session, following issues were raised by the participants:
Issue 1: Service
verification has not been completed in time and there was an round delay in
processing of pension cases.
• It was agreed that the
matter would be taken up with the concerned Ministry. A general set of
instructions would also be sent.
Issue 2: A participant
raised a point that for the CGEGIS, payment is delayed due to missing entry in
the service book.
• JS(P) stated that the
matter has been taken up with Department of Expenditure and would be followed
up.
Issue 3: One of the
participant asked whether vigilance clearance is required at the time of
retirement.
• It was informed that
there is no provision in pension rules.
Issue 4: One participant
enquired whether any pension process will be delayed on account of non
availability of record of government accommodation and not informed by
Directorate of Estates.
• JS (P) stated that
Directorate of Estates is responsible for giving timely information on dues to
be deducted on account of license fee etc. Gratuity may be paid by office it
Directorate of Estates does not inform in time.
The workshop ended with
Vote of Thanks to the participants.
Source: Pensioners Portal
