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Employees

A pension scheme that is neither social nor secure

Exactly twenty years after it was introduced, the participants in the New Pension Scheme (NPS) are feeling the pinch. Neither the government, nor the trade unions, nor even the beneficiaries - the employees of state and central governments - heeded the economists' hints and analytical advice at that time.

Passion for art bring the best out of this railwayman

Challenging the notion of railway employees of primarily being associated with the mechanised world, an office superintendent of the Eastern Railway brought alive the philosophy and life of the iconic ‘bauls’ of the state on his canvas.

A decent pension

The new pension scheme for its employees, inferior to the existing one, is a case in point. More disturbing is the denial, due to some flimsy objections, of the higher pension right to a large number of employees already covered under the Employees’ Provident Fund (EPF) scheme, not to speak of the total exclusion of a category of employees recruited after 1 September 2014.