Awareness programme for pensioners is to facilitate redressal of Pensioners' Grievances
Updated: Sep 29, 2015 03:25:33pm
The basic objective of the project is to facilitate redressal of Pensioners’ Grievances as also to provide information and guidance to pensioners on various pension and retirement related matters.
Entities like ministries departments, pensioners, banks, controller general of accounts (CGA), Central Pension Accounting Office (CPAO) and post offices are the stakeholders in this venture aimed at welfare of the pensioners.
With a view to provide know how about the operational aspects of this portal and the grievances redressal mechanism in particular, the Department of Pensions is conducting awareness programmes at different locations in the country.
So far such programmes have been conducted at Chandigarh, Bangalore, Bhubaneswar, Pune, Lucknow, Thiruvanthapuram, Kolkata, Jallandhar, Vadora, Shillong , Agartala and Kohima for Pensioners/Pensioners’ Association who are major stakeholders. (KNN Bureau)