Old pension of employees will not be restored in Madhya Pradesh, the government replied in the assembly
Publish Date: | Tue, 10 Dec 2005 10: PM (IST)
Bhopal State Bureau. Various organizations of employees in the state are demanding restoration of old pension, but the government is not considering it. Finance Minister Jagdish Deora has clarified in reply to three different questions in the Vidhansabha that no such proposal is under consideration.
January 1 National Pension System is applicable for the employees appointed after. Similarly, there is no proposal to do away with the requirement of obtaining consent of Chhattisgarh for increase in dearness relief of pensioners. In the new pension scheme, four lakh 90 thousand 
of the state Employees come.
Congress’s Suresh Raje, Pratap Grewal and BJP MLA Dinesh Rai Munmun questioned the Finance Department regarding the implementation of the old pension system. In its written reply, the Finance Minister said that no such proposal is under consideration. The government takes decision after proper analysis of the facts.
No proposal regarding old pension has been placed in the cabinet. On the other hand, in response to the question asked by Murli Morwal regarding the dearness relief of the pensioner, it was told that no comparison can be made between dearness relief and dearness allowance. On the question of Ajay Kumar Tunder regarding the salary hike of ASHA workers, it was told that since 2022 the ASHA workers have been agitating and demanding salary hike, but these demands have not been met. But no idea. No proposal is also under consideration at the government level.
Posted By: Hemant Kumar Upadhyay
