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Madhya Pradesh to introduce centralised pension system
June 01, 2008, Bhopal: The Madhya Pradesh government Saturday
announced that it would introduce a centralised pension scheme for its
employees.
The decision was taken at a state cabinet meeting held under the
leadership of Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan.
The Directorate of Pension would be declared Central Pension Treasury
and its office would be upgraded.
Since the Pension Fund Regulatory Depository Authority (PFRDLA) has
appointed the National Security Depository Ltd (NSDL) as central
record keeping agency and the SBI Pension Fund Ltd, UTI Retirement
Solution Ltd and LIC Pension Fund Ltd as pension fund managers, the
state government would also appoint these institutions accordingly.
After the introduction of the centralised pension system, a government
contribution, equal to the contribution of the employees, would be
deposited with the Directorate of Pension.
The cabinet also accorded sanction for payment of five percent
dearness allowance (DA) to the government employees from June 2008 and
six percent DA from July 1, 2008 and also pension relief to
pensioners.
With this move, the rate of DA being paid to the government employees
and dearness relief to the pensioners would be 41 percent from June 1
and 47 percent from July 1 respectively.
This benefit would also be given to the teachers cadre constituted by
the state government in April 2007. The payment of DA and dearness
relief would entail an additional financial burden of Rs.6.98 billion
annually on the government.
Yoga Summer
Camp held in BHEL township
Bhopal, May 31 (Pervez Bari): A Yoga summer camp was organized by the
Yoga Research Center under the Guidance of Dr NC Agarwal, Chief of the
Medical Services, Kasturba Hospital.
About 75 Children in the age group of 7 to 18 years from different
areas of BHEL township and satellite colonies attended the 10 day camp
at Yoga Research Center at Habibganj. Amrit Bindu and Pratima Prasad
conducted the training camp who have been trained and educated in
Bihar School of Yoga, Munger and are practicing the Satyananda Yog.
They are presently responsible for establishing the Yoga Research
Center at Habibganj in collaboration with the doctors of Kasturba
Hospital, BHEL, Bhopal. This center is conducting the various research
studies of certain chronic diseases on a regular basis and running a
regular Yoga OPD consultation at Kasturba Hospital where patients can
get the Consultation regarding the Yogic practices.
In the concluding function, children appreciated the summer camp and
felt subjectively a sense of well being. They wished that such camps
for children should be a regular feature of the center.
In the concluding session, Dr Sarla Menon, Chairperson, Yoga Research
Center appreciated the efforts of yoga teachers and congratulated the
children for taking interest in yoga at such a tender age. (pervezbari@eth.net)
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