KOHIMA, NOV 9 (DIPR): Having seen many employees landing into financial hardship after superannuation due to delay in processing of the pension cases and to mitigate such hardship, the Personnel and Administrative Reforms Department has informed all administrative departments to furnish information in prescribed proforma (statement of pending pension cases) on the retired/retiring employees including information such as name of the department and officer in charge of the pension section to the P&AR Department.
In and official memorandum, Principal Secretary, P&AR CJ Ponraj has said this step is being taken to facilitate timely payment of pension to the retired employees. “Under Central Civil service (CCS) (Pension) Rules 1972 the pension papers of all Government employees should be initiated 6 months before the date of retirement. Unfortunately many employees are put into unavoidable financial hardship after superannuation due to delay in processing of the cases and failure to furnish requisite information.”
Thus, ‘to mitigate the difficulties of employees through liaising with the Accountant General, Nagaland, the Pension Cell in the Department of Personnel & Administrative Reforms needs these particulars’, the Office Memorandum stated.
It also sought suggestions from Departments to improve the system of disposing pension cases ‘expeditiously’.
