Old Pension Scheme Update: The Rajasthan government has given orders to re-implement the old pension of the government employees of the state. After which the pressure has increased on the Center and BJP ruled states.
Old Pension Scheme: There is no intention of the Central Government to restore the old pension scheme. The government has given this answer in response to the question asked during the Question Hour in Parliament. Union Minister of State for Finance Bhagwat Karad said that no proposal to restore the old pension scheme is under consideration of the government.
In fact, Rajya Sabha MPs Vishambhar Das, Sukhram Singh Yadav and Chhaya Verma had asked the government whether the Rajasthan government has announced to dissolve the New Pension Scheme system and bring all the officials under the purview of the old pension system?
If so, will the Central Government also bring its central employees under the ambit of the old pension system by abolishing the New Pension Scheme similar to that of the Rajasthan Government?
Answering this question, the Minister of State for Finance said that the Rajasthan government in its budget speech on February 23, 2022 has announced to bring all government employees appointed on or after April 1, 2004, under the old pension scheme. But the central government has no proposal to restore the old pension scheme.
In fact, the Congress governments of Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh have given orders to re-implement the old pension of the government employees of the state. However, the pressure from the employees on the Center and the BJP-ruled states has increased.
The Ashok Gehlot government of Rajasthan has again announced to restore the old pension scheme in the state. After which this is becoming a big issue in other states of the country as well.
In other states also, government employees are raising this demand vigorously in front of the governments. In the recently held assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh, the Samajwadi Party promised in its manifesto that the old pension scheme would be restored if the SP became the government in the state.
In fact, in many states of the country, government employees are continuously pressurizing the government to restore the old pension scheme again. Even on the streets there are agitations. In recent times, the discussion of the old pension scheme is also in full swing in the political corridor.
Lakhs of employees are waiting for the old pension scheme to be restored. Not only the employees of the states, but the central employees are also waiting for this. It is expected that the government can bring some central employees from New Pension Scheme (NPS) to Old Pension Scheme (OPS).
These will include those employees for whose recruitment advertisements were issued on or before December 31, 2003. After an order of the Supreme Court, its fragrance has started.
The old pension scheme was closed in 2004,
the government of the then Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee had announced the implementation of the new pension scheme from April 1, 2004, except the Defense Forces. From this date or after that,
whoever joins the government job, it was made necessary to contribute towards the pension in the New Pension Scheme from their salary.
The central government implemented the new pension scheme, but did not make it mandatory for the states. Later gradually most of the states adopted it. But after a short time, the opposition to the new pension scheme started.
