
Union Minister Jitendra Singh launches integrated portal for pensioners
The Hindu
The portal has links to ‘Bhavishya’, an end-to-end electronic processing of all retirement dues
Union Minister Jitendar Singh on Tuesday launched an integrated portal aimed at ensuring “ease of living” for the central government pensioners.
The portal – www.ipension.nic.in – will act as a one-stop solution for all the pensioners' needs.
Mr. Singh, the Minister of State for Personnel, launched the single integrated pensioners’ portal developed in collaboration with State Bank of India (SBI), a statement issued by the Personnel Ministry said.
The portal has links to ‘Bhavishya’ – an end-to-end electronic processing of all retirement dues besides real-time tracking of pension processing file by retiree, besides ‘CPENGRAMS’ – Centralised Pension Grievances Redress and Monitoring System.
The integrated portal also has links to ‘Abhinav’ – a platform for retiring government officials to leave a record of their experiences while in government service – and the ‘pensioners’ portal’ that has details of all welfare measure being undertaken for pensioners/family pensioners.
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