Chhattisgarh state restored old pension scheme

Tags: State News

Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel in his budget statement announced the government's plan to roll back the old pension scheme (OPS) for state employees and quadruple the monthly MLA Local Area Development amount.

• More than three lakh people who started work after January 1, 2004 will benefit from this change.

• This change will not apply to members of All India Services like Indian Administrative Service and Indian Police Service.

• According to the new notification, the deduction of 10% monthly contribution from the salary of government servants under the New Contributory Pension Scheme will stop from April 1, 2022.

• According to the notification, a separate directorate will be created for all the operations related to account maintenance and pension of GPAF, which will be named Directorate, Pension and Provident Fund.-

• About Chhattisgarh State -

• Formation - 1 November 2000

• Capital- Raipur (Atal Nagar)

• Governor- Anusuiya Uikey

• Chief Minister- Bhupesh Baghel

• Assembly seats- 90

• Lok Sabha seats-11