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MINUTES OF THE MEETING HELD ON 02-11-2017 UNDER THE
CHAIRMANSHIP OF W/ACSF:- REVIEW OF ACTION TAKEN REPORT ON
THE DECISION TAKEN IN THE PREVIOUS MEETING HELD ON 06-09-2017
A meeting was held under the chairmanship of ACSF on 02-11-
2017 at 03.00 P.M. in the Committee Room, 7th Floor, Haryana Civil
Secretariat, Chandigarh to review the Action Taken Report on the decisions
taken in the previous meeting held on 06-09-2017. The list of participants is at
Annexure ”I”.
Detailed discussion was held on the agenda items with the Officers
present in the meeting, as under:-
1. Commutation of Pension:
SBI officers confirmed that this exercise has been completed at
their end and necessary recoveries have also been effected/initiated
accordingly.
The ACSF directed that Banks will send the number of such cases
to the Government (PDC), alongwith the details, in which recoveries have
been initiated. The ACSF also directed the Banks to duly inform the
pensioners about the reasons for which the recoveries have been made
from their pension. (Action- SBI and PNB).
2. LTC:
In this regard, SBI officers informed that they have checked more
than 6000 cases out of total 8633 cases, till date and necessary recovery
has been initiated/ affected in 44 cases, as per Govt. of Haryana
guidelines. PNB officers confirmed that no such case of overpayment has
been reported by their Branches in the State.
The ACSF directed that Banks will inform the pensioners the
reason of recovery and also provide the details of such recoveries to the
Government (PDC). ACSF also directed PNB to direct their branches for
carrying out the process of scrutiny or verification again for such cases
within a week’s time. (Action- SBI and PNB).
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3. Enhanced family pension :
SBI officers confirmed that they have initiated the recovery in 55
detected cases and will issue the notice to the pensioners accordingly with
the reasons of recovery. (Action- SBI and PNB).
4. SMS Alerts etc.:
(i) In this regard, Bank officers informed that they have made necessary
software changes and SMS alerts regarding submission of life
certificate/ non-marriage certificate/ non-employment certificate etc. will
be sent to the pensioners in the month of November, 2017.
The ACSF desired to know the number of pensioners who are 80
years old or above and require special assistance for life certificate due
to their old age/ health. He directed that the possibility of submission of
life certificate and updation of PPO through mobile applications or by
sending an official in person, business correspondent associate (BCA)
with a digital device for life certificate to the pensioners’ place may be
explored for the facilitation of old age pensioners. (Action- Banks and
NIC)
(ii) The matter regarding providing link on the official website of Bank where any
registered pensioner can view/print the detail of pension will be discussed in
the meeting to be held on 15.11.2017 with the technical team of Banks and
NIC officers.
(iii) The matter regarding providing facility to the pensioners for downloading of
Form 16 issued by the Income tax department from the official website of the
Bank link will be discussed in the meeting to be held on 15.11.2017 with the
technical team of Banks and NIC officers.
5. Outsourcing of data entry/ scanning/ digitization of more than 50,000 PPOs
(Pension Payment Orders) to be shifted from CPPC of State Bank of India,
Sector-5 Panchkula to Pension Disbursement Cell, Sector-4, Panchkula.
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Bank officers requested for the meeting to be arranged with the IT
officials of the Bank in order to provide the hassle-free customized
technology based solutions.
The ACSF constituted a Committee consisting of IT team of Banks
(SBI and PNB), NIC, PDC and Pension Branch of Finance Department of
the Government. The Committee will discuss the technical aspects to
provide the hassle-free customized technology based solutions by the
Banks at par with the e-pension project of State Government. The
Committee will hold the meeting on 15th November, 2017 at 11.00 A.M. in
the Conference Room of Yojana Bhawan, Sector-4, Panchkula.
ACSF further directed that the process of transferring of PPOs’ from
SBI and PNB will remain deferred till 31st December, 2017 so that a hassle-
free customised solution as per the requirement of Rules/ instructions of
Haryana Government may be provided by Banks and Action Taken Report
will be reviewed in the 1st Week of January, 2018 (Action- SBI, PNB, NIC,
PDC and Pension Branch, FD).
6. Transfer of PPO from Treasuries to Bank:-
The Account officer, Pension Branch informed that the matter
regarding the transfer of PPOs from Treasuries to Bank is under process at
the Government level. (Action- Pension Branch, FD).
7. Providing personal loan to the pensioners by the Banks:-
The Account Officer, Pension Branch sought clarification whether the
instruction to the effect that if any pensioner give the application for the
change of his/ her bank account in the e-pension system from one branch
to another branch of bank, then NOC from the concerned bank branch from
where the pensioner is holding bank account may be submitted to the TO/
ATO for change of account in e-pension system, is to be issued by loan
branch or pension branch of the FD. The ACSF clarified that the matter is
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related to e-pension project. Hence, action will be taken by the pension
branch of FD. (Action- Pension Branch, FD).
8. Integration of JPP with CSC for life certificate (Life Certificate through
Jeevan Pramaan Portal):-
The ACSF directed Sh. Virender Trivedi, Technical Director, NIC,
Haryana to explore the possibilities for integration of Jeevan Pramaan
Patra (JPP) portal with CSCs for the life certificate of the pensioners
drawing pension from Treasuries/ Sub Treasuries/ PDC. For this purpose,
ACSF further directed that Sh. V. Trivedi will take up the matter with the
concerned officers of Hartron and Government of India dealing with CSCs.
(Action-NIC)
9. Life Certificate and updation of PPO:-
The matter regarding life certificate and updation of PPO was
discussed in detail. It was brought to the notice of the ACSF that many
pensioners are making complaints to the Hon’ble Chief Minister, Chief
Secretary, Finance Minister, Additional Chief Secretary to Government,
Finance Department and Director General, Treasuries & Accounts Deptt.,
Haryana regarding visiting Treasury/ Sub Treasury twice in a year for life
certificate and PPO updation whereas in Banks and Government of India,
pensioners are required to visit/ provide life certificate only once a year
The grievances of the pensioners and particularly of the old aged
pensioners were considered sympathetically and after detailed discussion,
it was decided that the provision of updation of PPO as required vide
Government letter no. 14/81/2012-5FA dated 10.09.2012 and no.
2/32/2012-1 Pension (FD) dated 01.07.2014 may be examined on file and if
required the relevant Rules/ Instructions may be amended as per
procedure. (Action- Pension Branch of FD).
The meeting ended with a vote of thanks to the Chair.
Annexure-I
The list of officers who attended meeting held on 02-11-2017 at 03.00
P.M. under the Chairmanship of Worthy Additional Chief Secretary to Government
Haryana, Finance Department in the Committee Room, 7th Floor, Haryana Civil
Secretariat, Chandigarh to review the implementation of e-pension scheme:-
Govt. of Haryana/ T&A Deptt.
1. Sh. P. Raghavendra Rao, Additional Chief Secretary to Government
Haryana, Finance Department, Chairperson.
2. Sh. Sunil Saran, Director General, Treasuries & Accounts Deptt.,
Haryana.
3. Sh. Rajwinder Singh, Under secretary, Finance Department.
4. Sh. O. P. Bishnoi, Joint Director (DMC), Treasuries & Accounts,
Haryana, Chandigarh.
5. Sh. M. Beg, Joint Director, Pension Disbursement Cell, Treasuries &
Accounts Deptt.
6. Sh. R.K. Rathi, Deputy Director, Pension Disbursement Cell,
Treasuries & Accounts Deptt.
7. Sh. M. K. Gupta, Flying Squad Officer, Treasuries & Accounts Deptt.,
Haryana (the then Treasury Officer, Jagadhari, Haryana).
8. Sh. Virender Trivedi, Technical Director, National Informatics Center.
9. Sh. Rajesh Miglani, Account officer, Pension Branch, Finance
Department.
10. Smt. Ritika, Programmer, Pension Disbursement Cell, Treasuries &
Accounts Deptt.
11. Sh. Amit Kumar, Data Entry Operator, Pension Disbursement Cell,
Treasuries & Accounts Deptt.
Reserve Bank of India
12. Smt. Gurpreet Kaur, Assistant Manager, Reserve Bank of India,
Sector 17, Chandigarh.
State Bank of India
13. Sh. Anirudh Danda, Assistant General Manager, SBI Chandigarh.
14. Sh. Pardeep Sharma, Deputy Manager, CPPC, SBI, Panchkula.
15. Sh. Pardeep Gupta, Deputy Manager, CPPC, SBI, Panchkula.
Punjab National Bank
16. Sh. Pramod Pande, Chief Manager, PNB, Zonal Office, CPPC,
Chandigarh
17. Sh. Charan Jeet Grover, Manager, Punjab National Bank, CPPC,
Sector-17, Chandigarh