Payment of revised pension including arears wef 1.1.16
GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF RAILWAYS (RAILWAY BOARD) RBA No.55/2018 No.2016/AC-II/21/8/Pt.VI New Delhi dated 30.05.2018 Principal Financial Advisors, All Zonal Railways Sub: Payment of revised pension including arrears w.e.f. 1.1.2016 to the pensioners. Kindly refer to RBA No.170/2017 dated 30.11.2017 on the above subject. requesting Railways to verify the scrolls received from various Pension Paying Banks to establish that payment of revised pension has commenced in favour of all pensioners for whom revised PPOs have been issued. It is understood that despite lapse of nearly 6 months, revised pension is not being received by many pensioners and the issue is being raised in various Pensioners’ Forums including SCOVA. Follow up on payment of revised pension by the banks is necessary to take the benefits to the pensioners in a timely manner. Therefore, a special drive may be launched in the EDP centres to reconcile the debit scrolls with the revised PPOs to ascertain the ...