Department of Pension to conduct bankers’ awareness for Punjab National Bank and Pensioners’ awareness program
Kanwar Inder Singh/ royalpatiala.in News/ March 18,2025
On the direction of Dr. Jitendra Singh, Minister of State for Personnel, PG and Pensions, to enhance “Ease of Living” of pensioners and family pensioners, Department of Pension & Pensioners Welfare, Government of India has taken a number of welfare measures in pension policy as well as in digitization of pension related processes. Department has integrated pension portals of PNB, SBI, Bank of Baroda, Canara Bank, Bank of India, Central Bank of India and Union Bank of India to provide seamless banking services to pensioners from a single portal.
Since the major Pension Disbursing Authorities are banks, the Department of Pension and Pensioners’ Welfare has started a series of Awareness Workshops for Central Pension Processing Centers (CPPCs) of Banks as well as their field functionaries handling pension related work in the bank. Further, the Department has taken a number of initiatives for the welfare of pensioners and there is a need to familiarize them about the latest guidelines and policies related to pension. To spread awareness about the measures taken for Ease of Living of pensioners, the Department organizes Pensioners’ Awareness Programs in areas having large concentration of pensioners.
For this purpose, a Central Government Team from Department of Pension and Pensioners’ Welfare will conduct Awareness Programs for the officers of Punjab National Bank and for pensioners of Jaipur and neighboring areas at Rajasthan International Centre, Jaipur on 18th March, 2025, under chairmanship of V. Srinivas, Secretary, P&PW.
The objective of these workshops is to spread awareness of the various rules and procedures relevant for Pension Disbursing Banks and also the steps being taken by Government of India to ensure “Ease of Living” for Pensioners. The workshop shall also focus on the issues faced by Bank officials in handling these processes so that to reduce pensioners’ grievances. It will enable the Department to undertake new digital initiatives to better serve pensioners. More than 150 pensioners and 70 officers from CPPC and pension dealing branches of Punjab National Bank are participating in these interactive programs.
