New Delhi. Ashwini Vaishnaw on Unified Pension Scheme:  The central government had constituted a committee under the chairmanship of former Finance Secretary TV Swaminathan in the year 2022 to review the NPS.

This committee had prepared a report after detailed discussions with the unions and other representatives of central employees, state governments, RBI, World Bank, labour organisations including political parties. On the basis of this report, it has been decided to implement the Unified Pension Scheme (UPS).

Ashwini Vaishnav attacked Congress

Information and Broadcasting Minister Ashwini Vaishnav accused the Congress that their governments in Himachal Pradesh and Rajasthan had definitely announced to implement the Old Pension Scheme (OPS) in place of NPS, but no steps have been taken so far. On the other hand, PM Narendra Modi took the pension issue seriously and formed a committee on it and has now decided to implement the new scheme.

There will be no burden on central employees: Vaishnav

He clarified that no burden will be put on central employees for this new scheme. While OPS was a guaranteed payment scheme without any financial contribution, the Centre's contribution has been increased to raise additional resources for UPS. Earlier this contribution amount was 10 percent, which was increased to 14 percent by the Modi government in the year 2019. Now it has been decided to make it 18.5 percent.

PM Modi met the delegation of JCM

According to news agency ANI, a delegation from the employee side of the Joint Consultative Mechanism (JCM) for Central Government employees met Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday. The meeting took place at a time when the Central Government has approved the Unified Pension Scheme (UPS), which includes assured pension and assured family pension.

Shiv Gopal Mishra, secretary of the National Council of JCM, said that after several days of protests, Prime Minister Modi acknowledged the concerns of the National Council and called a meeting with the standing committee. JCM is a statutory forum for dialogue to resolve disputes between the government and its employees amicably. It has members from more than a dozen government organisations.