First Pension Adalat

Dr Jitendra Singh to inaugurate first ‘Pension Adalat’ tomorrow

Question: Recently, how many persons have been given ‘ Anubhav ‘ Award, 2017, for tendering remarkable services or works in their departments?
(a) 14
(b) 15
(c) 17
(d) 25
Answer- (c)
Related Facts:

  • On September 19th, 2017, the Union Minister of State (Independent Charge) Development of North-Eastern Region (DoNER), MoS PMO, Personnel, Public Grievances & Pensions, Atomic Energy and Space, Dr Jitendra Singh inaugurated the first ‘Pension Adalat.
  • He also honored the Pensioners for their outstanding contribution towards ‘Anubhav’.
  • ‘Anubhav’ is a platform for retiring employees for sharing their experience of working with Government.
  • Moving ahead from e-governance to m-governance, a Mobile App, created to avail the services of Pensioners’ Portal was also launched by him.
  • With this App, a superannuating Central Government official will be able to monitor the progress of his pension settlement, and retired officials will be able to self-assess their pension through the pension calculator and will also be able to register their grievances, if any, and get updates on orders issued by the Department.
  • As a measure of welfare to the pensioners of Government of India, a workshop on Pre-Retirement Counseling (PRC) of 300 retiring Central Government employees was also held.
  • The event was organized by Department of Pension & Pensioners’ Welfare, Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions, Government of India.
  • The objective of this workshop is to create awareness about the post-retirement entitlements as well as an advance planning for life after retirement.
  • The ANUBHAV AWARDS 2017 has been given to 17 pensioners for their contribution towards creating institutional memory for the departments.
  • It was the first of a series of Pension Adalats launched by the Pension Department in this programme.
  • The objective of the Pension Adalat is to bring the aggrieved pensioner, the concerned department, the bank or CGHS representative, wherever relevant, on a common table so that such cases can be settled across the table within the framework of extant rules.

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