The Sukhwinder Singh Sukhu-led Congress government in Himachal Pradesh has fulfilled its promise made before last year’s assembly elections. The state government has approved the restoration of the old pension scheme in its first cabinet meeting held on Friday.
Significantly, there are a total of 1.36 lakh employees including employees and pensioners under the New Pension Scheme (NPS). Congress party had promised to restore Old Pension Scheme (OPS) In the first cabinet meeting and it stood by it.
Talking to reporters after the cabinet meeting, Sukhu said that from today the benefit of the old pension scheme would be given and a notification in this regard would be issued soon.
He said that we will fulfill our promise to provide 1,500 per month to women and a sub-committee with cabinet ministers including Chander Kumar, Dhani Ram Shandil, Anirudh Singh and Jagat Negi has been formed to prepare a road map for its distribution. 1,500 per month in 30 days.
A committee has also been constituted to explore the possibility of one lakh jobs,
The liability under OPS for this year is approx. since 800 900 crore increase will be borne by raising resources like VAT on Diesel.
Sukhu reiterated that the state government has reinstated OPS not for votes but to provide social security and to protect the self-respect of the employees who write the history of Himachal’s development.
He said that the matter has been studied in depth and despite some objections by the Finance Officers, the issue has been resolved and all the employees will be covered under OPS under the New Pension Scheme.
sukhu Said that the previous BJP government did not give the dues about 11,000 crores, including 4,430 crore to the employees, 5,226 crore to pensioners and 1000 crore dearness allowance of 6th pay commission.
Sukhu also said that the state is in debt 75,000 crore due to financial mismanagement and extravagance by the previous BJP government.
Govt denotifies over 900 institutes opened by previous BJP government without budget Rs 5,000 crore was required to make them functional. He said that tough decisions have to be taken as the government cannot run under heavy debt.
Employees joining Government service from January 1, 2004 are covered under the New Pension Policy (NPS).
The new pension scheme is a contributory scheme in which the government and employees contribute 10 and 14 per cent of the salary, respectively, to the pension fund, whereas in the old pension scheme, employees with 20 years of service got 50 per cent of the last drawn salary. as pension.
“We had informed the government that the liability under NPS for 2022-23 1,632 crore out of which the employees and the government will deposit 680 crores and 952 crores respectively while the liability under OPS will be only 147 crore,” said Pradeep Thakur, president of the New Pension Scheme Employees Federation of Himachal.
(With PTI inputs)
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