Thursday, 22 December 2022 | PNS | DEHRADUN
Enthused by the success of the recent mega conclave in Karnataka, the Uttarakhand chapter of the National Movement for restoration of the Old Pension Scheme ( NMOPS) has decided to give momentum to the agitation for the OPS in the State. After returning from Bengaluru, the State President of NMOPS, Jeetmani Painyuli convened a meeting of the office bearers on Tuesday. In the meeting the general secretary of the state NMOPS, Mukesh Raturi suggested that in-charges should be appointed in every district. This proposal was unanimously accepted by the members. Painyuli said that programmes would be organised in all the blocks of the State to give further momentum to the demand for restoration of OPS. He informed that conventions and rallies would be organised in all the districts by the NMOPS. Painyuli added that the morale of the employees of the State is high after the decision of the new government of Himachal Pradesh to restore the OPS in the State.
He said that the results of HP have shown the strength of employees to the political parties and now the agitation for OPS would intensified in Uttarakhand.
There are more than 80,000 employees, teachers and officers which are currently under the New Pension Scheme (NPS) in Uttarakhand. The NPS was started in the year 2004 to reduce the ever increasing burden of pension on state exchequer. Under it a portion of the salary of the employees is deducted every month and the government makes an equal contribution. This is invested in different debt and equity instruments to build up a corpus for the employee and on his retirement he or she receives the pension from the interest incurred from the corpus. The employees are finding the NPS non lucrative and are demanding the restoration of OPS in which the retiring employee gets 50 per cent of his last drawn salary as pension. In the OPS the employees also get the benefit of Dearness Allowance (DA), family pension and commutation.
