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Chairman, PFRDA calls for increasing the coverage of State Autonomous Bodies (SABs) and to bring the unorganised workers including Anganwadi & Asha workers and SHGs within the ambit of NPS; State Governments urged to generate awareness to maximise coverage under Atal Pension Yojana (APY) as the benefit of Government co-contribution would be available to those subscribers only who join APY before 31st December, 2015

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..... Chairman, PFRDA calls for increasing the coverage of State Autonomous Bodies (SABs) and to bring the unorganised workers including Anganwadi & Asha workers and SHGs within the ambit of NPS; State Governments urged to generate awareness to maximise coverage under Atal Pension Yojana (APY) as the benefit of Government co-contribution would be available to those subscribers only who join APY before 3 .....

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..... 1st December, 2015 - News and Press Release Dated:- 11-12-2015 - News - The Chairman, PFRDA, Shri Hemant Contractor stressed the need for increasing the coverage of State Autonomous Bodies (SABs) and bring the unorganised workers like Anganwadi workers, Asha workers and SHGs within the ambit of National Pension System (NPS) so that they may also benefit from the scheme. Shri Contractor commended .....

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..... the substantial increase in the subscriber coverage of the State Governments subscribers which crossed the figure of 28 lacs and the increase in Asset under Management (AUM) of the State Governments subscribers which crossed ₹ 50,000 crore in November 2015. Shri Contractor was delivering the Welcome Address at the Conference on implementation of National Pension System (NPS) by the State .....

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..... Governments organised by the Pension Fund Regulatory Development Authority (PFRDA) here today. Senior officials from almost all the State Governments attended the conference. The prime objective was to provide a forum to all the State Governments where the progress in the implementation of NPS with respect to subscriber coverage and services could be brought to the fore and a way forward could b .....

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..... e provided. Shri Contractor said that PFRDA was intent on achieving its twin objective of ensuring orderly growth of pension sector and protection of subscribers interest. He informed that barring two States viz. Tripura and West Bengal, all other States have notified NPS and have registered subscribers under NPS. He further informed that the main areas of concern while implementation of NPS by t .....

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..... he State Governments include coverage gaps and process related issues at the level of nodal offices. He insisted the State Governments for improving the IRA compliance and updating subscribers details to avail of the latest technological benefits in provision of subscriber services and to avail smooth exit/ withdrawal process. Earlier, Shri Ajay Narayan Jha, Special Secretary (Expenditure), M .....

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..... inistry of Finance (MOF) in his Keynote Address informed that a third of the total staff enrolled in both the Central and the State Governments are registered in NPS and the pension liabilities of all the State Governments was around 3% of total revenue expenditure excluding salary and interest payment in 2004-05 which increased to 12.30% in 2012-13. NPS can be instrumental in reducing liabilities .....

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..... of the Government and the challenges include providing optimum returns on the deposits and for that ensuring timely collection of contributions by the nodal offices across all the Government offices. Dr Shashank Saksena, Economic Advisor, Dept. of Financial Services(DFS), Ministry of Finance (MOF) urged the State Governments to generate awareness with a sense of urgency and maximise coverage .....

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..... under Atal Pension Yojana (APY) as the benefit of Government co-contribution would be available to those subscribers only who join APY before 31st December, 2015. Currently, NPS including APY has more than 1.02 Crore subscribers with total Asset Under Management (AUM) of more than ₹ 1, 05,000 crores. Speaking on the occasion, Shri R. V. Verma, Member (Finance), PFRDA, congratulated the S .....

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..... tate Governments for their efforts in increasing the coverage of subscribers under NPS. He highlighted the robust mechanism put in place by PFRDA through notification of important regulations like Grievance Redressal and Exit Withdrawals. He emphasised the need for enhancing capacity building of the nodal officers especially in view of their enhanced role as envisaged in the regulations and the .....

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..... provisions of the PFRDA Act. He stressed on maintaining discipline of timely remittance of subscriber contribution, ensuring 100 percent IRA compliance, reducing coverage gaps and subscriber grievances among others. - News - Press release - PIB Tax Management India - taxmanagementindia - taxmanagement - taxmanagementindia.com - TMI - TaxTMI - TMITax .....

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