New Pension System Pilot Run Successful: Mandaviya
By Rediff Money Desk, New Delhi Nov 08, 2024 18:55
India's Labour Minister announces successful pilot run of the Centralized Pension Payments System (CPPS) for Employees' Pension Scheme 1995, aiming to streamline pension disbursement.
New Delhi, Nov 8 (PTI) Minister of Labour & Employment Mansukh Mandaviya on Friday announced successful completion of pilot run of new Centralized Pension Payments System (CPPS) under Employees' Pension Scheme 1995.
The CPPS is a paradigm shift from the existing pension disbursement system that is decentralized, with each Zonal/Regional Office of EPFO maintaining separate agreements with only 3-4 banks, a labour ministry statement said.
In CPPS, there will be no need for pensioners to visit the bank for any verification at the time of commencement of pension and the pension shall be immediately credited upon release, it stated.
The minister mentioned in the statement that the pilot run was completed on October 29-30 with the pension disbursement of about Rs 11 crore for October 2024 to more than 49,000 EPS pensioners of Jammu, Srinagar and Karnal regions.
Earlier, during the announcement of the new CPPS system, Mandaviya had said, "The CPPS marks a significant milestone in modernization of the EPFO. By enabling pensioners to receive their pension from any bank, any branch, anywhere in the country, this initiative addresses the long-standing challenges faced by pensioners and ensures a seamless and efficient disbursement mechanism."
This is a crucial step in our ongoing efforts to transform the EPFO into a more robust, responsive, and tech-enabled organization, committed to serving the needs of its members and pensioners better, he had said.
The CPPS system would also ensure disbursement of pension throughout India without any need for transfer of Pension Payment Orders (PPO) from one office to another even when the pensioner moves from one location to another or changes his bank or branch.
This would be a great relief to pensioners who move to their hometown after retirement.
The new CPPS system will be fully rolled out as part of EPFO's ongoing IT modernization project Centralized IT Enabled System (CITES 2.01) by January 2025 and will benefit more than 78 lakh EPS pensioners of EPFO.
EPFO is continuously working towards improving services for EPS pensioners and new CPPS system is a major reform in this direction, it said.
The CPPS is a paradigm shift from the existing pension disbursement system that is decentralized, with each Zonal/Regional Office of EPFO maintaining separate agreements with only 3-4 banks, a labour ministry statement said.
In CPPS, there will be no need for pensioners to visit the bank for any verification at the time of commencement of pension and the pension shall be immediately credited upon release, it stated.
The minister mentioned in the statement that the pilot run was completed on October 29-30 with the pension disbursement of about Rs 11 crore for October 2024 to more than 49,000 EPS pensioners of Jammu, Srinagar and Karnal regions.
Earlier, during the announcement of the new CPPS system, Mandaviya had said, "The CPPS marks a significant milestone in modernization of the EPFO. By enabling pensioners to receive their pension from any bank, any branch, anywhere in the country, this initiative addresses the long-standing challenges faced by pensioners and ensures a seamless and efficient disbursement mechanism."
This is a crucial step in our ongoing efforts to transform the EPFO into a more robust, responsive, and tech-enabled organization, committed to serving the needs of its members and pensioners better, he had said.
The CPPS system would also ensure disbursement of pension throughout India without any need for transfer of Pension Payment Orders (PPO) from one office to another even when the pensioner moves from one location to another or changes his bank or branch.
This would be a great relief to pensioners who move to their hometown after retirement.
The new CPPS system will be fully rolled out as part of EPFO's ongoing IT modernization project Centralized IT Enabled System (CITES 2.01) by January 2025 and will benefit more than 78 lakh EPS pensioners of EPFO.
EPFO is continuously working towards improving services for EPS pensioners and new CPPS system is a major reform in this direction, it said.
Source: PTI
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