Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], August 2 (ANI/PRNewswire): Protean eGov Technologies Limited (formerly NSDL e-Governance Infrastructure Limited), a market leader in universal, citizen-centric and population-scale e-governance solutions, announced that it has forayed into the cyber security business with the launch of its wholly-owned subsidiary Protean InfoSec Services Limited.

New Delhi [India], April 8 (ANI): The number of subscribers in various schemes under the National Pension System (NPS) rose to 5.2 crore by end-March 2022 from 4.24 crore in March 2021 showing a year-on-year increase of 22.58 per cent, according to data released by the Union Finance Ministry on Friday.

New Delhi [India], February 1 (ANI): Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Tuesday said that the state government employees' tax deduction limit has been increased from 10 per cent to 14 per cent.

New Delhi Jan 27 PTI Demanding one nation one pension scheme an employees organisation has asked the Centre to consider changes in the National Pension System NPS to ensure socio-economic security of lakhs of employees The National Movement for Old Pension Scheme NMOPS an umbrella body of more than 14 lakh central and state government employees has written to Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharam and Minister of State for Personnel Public Grievances and Pensions Jitendra Singh in support of their demands In the NPS after retirement there is no guarantee of half of the last basic salary drawn and dearness allowance as pension said the letter written by president of NMOPS Delhi unit Manjeet Singh Patel So in case of less years of service retirees are getting very little pension like Rs 500 to Rs 5000 said the letter adding that the old pension scheme provides guaranteed minimum pension of Rs 9000 at retirement The NMOPS urged the ministers to make the NPS system a universal platform of pension for different types of employees serving under central autonomous bodies and public sector units among others close on the lines of one nation one ration card schemeWe want NPS to be modified as per our demands and also made a single scheme for all category of employees so that it can act like one nation one pension scheme Patel told PTI He said the Centre and state governments have implemented a share-market based pension system for their employees including the ones in autonomous organisations since January 2004NMOPS formed to oppose the NPS system is a federation of central and state government employees and their associations Patel in his letter demanded minimum interest or return guarantee on the employees contribution in NPS and a minimum pension guarantee of Rs 9000 in addition to dearness reliefThe NPS employee should be allowed to enhance his contribution up to 50 per cent of basic salary and DA from 10 per cent This will also strengthen market investment he suggested in the letter dated January 19 The right to full withdrawal of employee contribution and its return should be provided in NPS in place of 25 per cent fund withdrawal capacity at present Patel said Therefore we on behalf of NPS employees organisation request you to take kind steps to protect the old age socio-economic security of more than 75 lakh NPS employees families he added PTI AKV AKV AAR AAR