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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