HP Brings Old Pension Scheme For Employees

Shimla
The Himachal Pradesh government on Friday decided to implement the old pension scheme (OPS) for the existing 1.36 lakh employees, and for the future employees too.
A decision in this regard was taken at the Cabinet meeting chaired by Chief Minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu here. It was decided that the OPS beneficiaries would also be brought under the ambit of GPF and those employees under the new pension scheme (NPS), who retired after May 15, 2003, will be given OPS from the prospective date.
It was decided that after necessary amendments to rules, the contribution by the government and the employees under the NPS will stop from April 1, 2023.
No deductions would be made from the employees from their salary under the NPS from April 1. If any employee wants to be governed under the NPS, he/she can give his consent to the government in this regard.
The government will spend an additional amount of Rs 1,000 crore in fiscal 2023-24 on the implementation of the OPS. The Cabinet also passed a resolution to be sent to the Central government to return Rs 8,000 crore under the ambit of the state’s NPS.
The Cabinet asked the Finance Department to amend the rules and issue necessary instructions in this regard. It was also decided to engage 780 ASHA workers under the National Health Mission (NHM) on an incentive basis to provide affordable and reliable healthcare to the people. It gave nod to guidelines for the engagement of ASHA facilitators under the Community Process Programme.