The Central Government has decided to provide the option of Old Pension to the employees coming under the National Pension System (NPS). Let us know which employees will benefit from this?
New Delhi. The Narendra Modi government at the Center is going to give good news by fulfilling the old demand of government employees. In fact, most government employees have been campaigning to re-implement the old pension system since the implementation of the National Pension System (NPS) in the year 2004. Also Read: RBI Alert! RBI issued fraud alert for customers says avoid these things know about it
Now the central government has decided to give the benefit of old pension scheme to the employees coming under NPS. Minister of State Dr. Jitendra Singh says that the order of the court is being implemented in this matter. Also Read: Petrol-Diesel Price Today: New rates of petrol-diesel released, know what has changed in the price of 1 liter today?
Which government employees will get the benefit of OPS
This decision of the government will benefit those employees who have been appointed after December 31, 2003. These employees will be given the option to choose the old pension system, that is, they can choose the option of old pension. Let us inform that the central employees had filed a petition in the Delhi High Court.
The court said that the advertisement for the job was issued in 2003 and the selection process ended in February 2004. Therefore, the court does not agree with the decision to implement the new pension scheme on the employees. This delay has come from the side of the government. When the advertisement was taken out in 2003, they should have got the benefit of that time.
The government decided to fully implement
The High Court ordered to give the benefit of the old pension scheme to the employees under the Central Civil Services (Pension) Rules, 1972. Union Minister of State Jitendra Singh says that the Ministry of Finance had started NPS for the Central Government employees on the notification of 22 December 2003.
NPS is mandatory for all new appointments (except armed forces) to the Central Government service from January 1, 2004. However, after the court’s decision, the government decided to implement it completely. With this, now the option of old pension can be given again to the employees declared successful for recruitment in the results declared on 31 December 2003 for vacancies before 1 January 2004.
