Pre-retirement counseling workshop and the ANUBHAV Awards, 2019 26/08/2019 – Posted in: Press Information Bureau – Tags:

ANUBHAV Awards

(Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances & Pensions)

WHAT

The Pre-Retirement counseling workshop and the ANUBHAV Awards, 2019 function held recently. It is organized by the Department of Pension and Pensioners’ Welfare, Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions.

  • This was the fourth annual award in the series.
  • The Minister also inaugurated the All India Pension Adalat organised on the occasion. The Pension Adalats were also organised by various ministries and departments at different parts of the country.

 

HIGHLIGHTS

  • The Anubhav portal was created with a vision to preserve the rich experience of the retired officials in digital form.
  • It is envisaged that their rich experience will be preserved for future generations to learn and explore knowledge on various aspects of governance, culture & development history of a particular region.
  • A Pension Dashboard has been opened for monitoring and various new innovations are being done in making the grievance mechanism more effective.

 

BACKGROUND

An award scheme to incentivize and encourage more retiring employees to submit their write-ups was introduced in 2016 and till three annual awards ceremony has been organized.

 

PRE-RETIREMENT COUNSELLING WORKSHOP

The pre-retirement counselling workshop focussed on educating the retiring employees about various procedures related to retirement. These included:

  • Pension disbursement process
  • Transfer of pension from one bank to another
  • Role of CPPC in pension disbursement
  • Bhavishya portal
  • Digital Life certificate
  • Pensioners’ Portal/CPENGRAMS and welfare schemes of DoP&PW
  • Medical facilities after retirement
  • Wealth management
  • Income tax concessions & other special facilities for senior citizens.

 

IMPORTANT INFO

The Minister also released a Booklet titled “Know Your Retirement Benefits”.

 

Source: PIB

 

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