The Punjab Government on Sunday set a time-frame for the registration of the new entrants in the Government service under new pension scheme (NPS). Any Government employee or officer, who joined the Government services January 1, 2004, has to register themselves under new pension scheme, said an official government spokesperson.
He said that now, the State Government has set a time-frame for different operations which are to be fulfilled by the employees for the registration under NPS.
It would be the responsibility of concern DDO to get the CSRF-I form filled by the new employ within 15 days of joining and to forward this form within next three days to district treasury office, he said.
Spokesperson said that the district treasury officer would be responsible for sending this form to Principal Accounts Officer (New Pension Scheme) afterwards Principal Accounts Officer would furnish this form to the facilitation centre of National Securities Depository limited (NSDl).
He said that the time-frame has also been fixed for handling such operations where an employee’s request for change in the application, changes his department and seeks remittance on Subscribers Contribution File (SCF) uploading and NPS contribution.
Above all, time frame for releasing pensioner benefits to new pension scheme holder after retirement of the employee is also set.