Lucknow, Feb 28 (PTI) Uttar Pradesh Finance and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Suresh Kumar Khanna on 𓃲Wednesday said the government will ensure reso🌳lution of all the issues facing pensioners, including timely and error-free payment of pensions to them.
Inaugurating the new building of the Pension Directorate at the Institute of Financial Management Trainin🃏g and Research campus in Indira Nagar, Lucknow, Khanna s𒉰aid it will help enhance facilities for pensioners of the state.
According to a statement issued by the state government, the Finance Minister said, "Ensuring timely disbursement of pensions to pensioners should be our top priority. Pensioners must not face any kind of trouble. We have got the opportunity to serve the el🀅derly and we must perform our duty."
Suresh Khanna urged the treasuries to develop a foolproof mechanism to ensure there are no errors in payment of pensions and the designa🐼ted amounts are paid on time to the right beneficiaries.
"We must avoid c⛦omplications like recovery due to incorꦕrect disbursement", he said.
The Pension Directorate was established on June 2, 1988, to get pension cases of government employees🅺 settled within the state instead of at the 💝Accountant General's Office.
Until now, the directorate was f⛦unctioning on the eighth floor of Indira Bhawan, but due to insufficient space for document preservation and record-keeping, it has been relocated to the campus of the Institute of Financial Management Training and Research.
The renovation of this adminܫistr🌞ative building has been carried out by the Public Works Department at a cost of Rs 1 crore.
Currently, the🎃 directorate is handling pension cases of officers in the Group A category, members of various commissions, and employees of agricultural universities and tech𝓡nical colleges including the Khadi Board.
Besides, in case of death of personnel covered under the National Pension Syst💖em while serving, there is a provision to sanction family pension to their dependents based on their option.
So far, the pension directorate has undertak♕en thℱe resolution of pension cases of more than 81,000 employees.
Presently, action is being taken to issue an online pension authorisation 🔥letter through e-pension system, the statemen𓂃t read.
