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Setting-up
of a Standing Committee of Voluntary Agencies (SCOVA)
to help mobilize voluntary efforts to supplement the Government
action as well as to serve as a useful forum for providing a
feedback for the
policy initiatives and implementation of welfare programmes
for pensioners.
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Establishment
of an Information
and Facilitation Counter (IFC)
for the pensioners, in Lok Nayak Bhawan at New Delhi to
provide information about the pension-related services, schemes
and procedures, and to facilitate not only the
lodging of their complaints/applications but also to
provide the status on the disposal of their complaints as a
single-window service.
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Setting-up
of a separate fund (Compassionate
Fund)
for providing relief to the families of Government servants if
they are left in indigent circumstances on account of premature
death of the Government servant (upon whom they depend for
support) and do not
receive any other form of death benefits, such as Contributory
Provident Fund, Gratuity or Family Pension.
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Introduction
of Family
Pension
Scheme allowing for payment of pension for life for the family
of a Central Government servant who dies while in service.
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Introduction
of the scheme for Payment
of Pension to Central Government Civil Pensioners through
Authorized Banks
to ensure a speedy and timely
disbursal of pension using the vast net work of their
branches.
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Simplification
of procedures to cut delays in the processing and disbursal of pensionary
and retirement benefits.
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Liberalization
of provisions
relating to ex- gratia
lumpsum payment to the
families of Government servants who die while in service under
certain circumstances.
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Liberalization
of pensionary
awards in the case of death/disability to the Government
servants while in service under certain circumstances.
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Amendments
in relevant rules to facilitate granting of enhanced pension and
retirement benefits (Converting dearness allowance equal to 50%
of basic pay as
dearness pay and treating the same as emoluments
for pension, enhancing the
maximum amount of gratuity to
Rs. 3.5.lakhs, increasing the
minimum amount of pension to Rs.
1913, increasing the limit for commutation to 40%, treating
‘Dearness Allowance’ as ‘emoluments’ for
retirement/death gratuity etc.)
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Revising
the rate of family pension uniformly as 30% of pay last drawn,
and granting uniform percentage of pension as ‘dearness
relief’ for both the serving and the retired Government
servants.
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Making
dependent parents, widowed/divorced daughters eligible for
family pension
