Vinod Bhat
On the direction of Union Minister of State for Personnel, PG and Pensions, Dr. Jitendra Singh, to enhance “Ease of Living” of pensioners and family pensioners, Department of Pension & Pensioners Welfare, Government of India has taken a number of welfare measures in pension policy as well as in digitization of pension related processes. Department has integrated pension seva portals of SBI, PNB, Bank of Baroda and Canara Bank to provide seamless banking services to pensioners from a single portal.
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 will conduct a workshop for the officers of Bank of Baroda at Ahmedabad on 5th& 6th March, 2024.
The objective of these workshops is to spread awareness of the various rules and procedures relevant for Pension Disbursing Banks and also the steps being taken by 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 so that to reduce pensioners’ grievances. It will enable the Department to undertake new digital initiatives to better serve pensioners.
More than 70 officers from CPPC and pension dealing branches of Bank of Baroda will participate in this workshop.
