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Tuesday, December 2, 2025
TopicPension scheme

Topic: pension scheme

NPS-Lite can streamline welfare funds & pension schemes for the poor—with 2 key reforms

To widen pension coverage in the informal sector, India must use existing infrastructure to its full extent. The mechanism in place for the NPS can be used to implement other schemes as well.

Rs 7,500, Rs 6,000, Rs 5,100 — INLD, Congress, JJP compete on old age pension ahead of 2024 Haryana polls

Purported video from Abhay Chautala's yatra shows him promising Rs 7,500 pension to elderly. Bhupinder Hooda commits Rs 6,000, Dushyant Chautala has talked of Rs 5100 pension since 2019.

Why India’s retired domestic women cricketers are left out of BCCI pension scheme

India's retired women cricketers are ensured some financial security if they have played for the country. For domestic players, it's all down to who can produce what data.

Congress’s Praveen Chakravarty says no ‘internal strife’, day after comment on Old Pension Scheme

In a tweet Monday, Chakravarty said the 'Old Pension Scheme will cost roughly 15% of tax revenues' in Gujarat. The Congress has distanced itself from his comment.

Freebies, bailouts, revival of pension scheme — why many states are at risk of fiscal stress

Power sector reforms, preventing leakages in subsidies payments and avoiding fiscally unwise decisions like reversion to old pension system can help improve their financial health.

‘Lauta do purani pension’: The steady growth of Old Pension Scheme agitations across India 

Starting with Vijay Kumar Bandhu’s initiative, demand for OPS has now become a key issue in UP, MP, Himachal, Andhra Pradesh & Jharkhand and features in the SP’s poll manifesto.

Rajasthan’s pension system reversal is anti-reform, it will reintroduce inequality

The decision to move away from the defined benefit old pension scheme for civil servants was based on the fact that the old pension system was inherently inequitable.

Raise minimum EPS pension to Rs 5,000, start urban MGNREGA: RSS-affiliate BMS’ Budget demands

In pre-budget meet with Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, BMS calls for income tax exemption for senior citizens, constant interest rates for FD schemes.

5 years of One Rank One Pension scheme a momentous occasion, says PM Modi

OROP is aimed at ensuring uniform pensions for armed forces veterans retiring in the same rank with the same length of service irrespective of when they retire.

In photos, Modi woos traders by announcing collateral-free loan & other schemes

PM Modi at the convention also announced that if re-elected, he would form a National Traders' Welfare Board.

On Camera

Why won’t Modi fix Delhi’s airpocalypse?

The Prime Minister has never been shy about centralising authority. Surely, he should treat this problem the way that the leadership in Beijing treated China’s smog crisis over a decade ago?

New cess on ‘pan masala’ to fund national security and healthcare programmes

The Health Security Se National Security Cess Bill, 2025, explained. Oppn has attacked the proposed cess as 'a new financial burden' on the citizens.

Op Sindoor hit Pakistan’s economy hard, we forced their navy to stay restricted to ports—Navy chief

Admiral Dinesh Tripathi at annual media interaction ahead of Navy Day celebrations announced that an operational demonstration is expected at Thiruvananthapuram, President Murmu to attend.

Gaali cricket: Bavuma stands tall, India’s Test ego cut to size

The India-South Africa series-defining fact is the catastrophic decline of Indian red ball cricket where a visiting team can mock us with the 'grovel' word.