Kohima, March 16 (MExN): Office of the Accountant General, Nagaland has informed all retired State Government officers/ officials that pension and GPF Final payment cases settled up to the month of February 2016 have been uploaded on its website. Pensioners may log on to the website at www.agnagaland.gov.in, click at Felicitation and Pension or GPF Felicitation or directly click on the Sticky Note written “Click here to view list of settled Pension/GPF final payment cases.” The list has also been put up for display at the Public Relation Cell and can be viewed on any working days during office hours.
A press release from Senior Accounts Officer, Information System Cell, AG Nagaland office further informed that the Accountant General (A&E) has requested all retired Government employees once again to record their personal mobile numbers in the pension documents to enable the Office to intimate them on the progress of their pension cases through SMSs. The SMSs will be triggered through Pension Database SMS gateway No.9402739265; since the number is integrated with the system, pensioners have been requested not to call the number but to note it down as all SMSs will be initiated through the same number. SMSs will be sent during the following stages: When confirmation on the pension case is received; when the case is sent back to the department due to observation/objections; and when the pension case is completed.
Aggrieved pensioners or Government officials with genuine problems have been requested to write directly to the Deputy Accountant General (A&E) Kahoto J Yepthomi via e-mail at kahoto_j@yahoo.co.in or agaenagaland@cag.gov.in or through a handwritten letter to the address given below for immediate clarification and redressal of their grievances: Kahoto J Yepthomi, IAAS, Deputy Accountant General (A&E), Office of the Accountant General (A&E), Kohima, Pin No.797001, Nagaland. They can also submit suggestions to strengthen the delivery system.
Gazetted officers, HoDs informed
Meanwhile, the release also informed all gazetted officers whose payslips are issued from the Accountant General Office that Incumbency list and post continuation orders for more than fifty departments are yet to be received by the Office. The matter is already taken up with the department of P&AR in a letter dated.11-03-2016 with copies duly endorsed to the concerned Secretaries and Directors, it said. The Departments in receipt of the letter have been asked to adhere to the guidelines and expedite the submission of Incumbency list and post-continuation order for further action.
Further, all Heads of Department in the State government have been requested once again to ensure timely submission of all retirement related documents (that is, six months before the date of retirement) to avoid harassment to retired officials at various processing stages. Cases of many officials received before the date of retirement have been settled by the AG Office on their retirement date/day as a demonstration of seriousness the office accords to sensitivities of retired officials and their retirement benefits, the release said. “Departments may seriously take up the matter of timely submission of retirement documents, so as to enable the pensioners to receive their retirement benefits in time,” it added.
