The Bengal government on Monday allotted a sum of Rs 850 crore as pension to nearly 50 lakh beneficiaries of various social pension schemes, and Rs 1,050 crore for the development of industrial infras...

The Supreme Court has ruled that a divorced daughter is entitled to dependent family pension on a par with an unmarried daughter, dismissing the central government’s appeal challenging a Punjab and ...

The labour ministry will enforce the retirement fund body EPFO’s decision to restore pension commutation, or advance part-withdrawal, under the Employees’ Pension Scheme from January 1, 2020, a mo...

A proposed law on social security for workers has diluted a provision for additional contribution by the central government to the pension for low-paid employees, drawing criticism from the RSS-affili...

The Centre has proposed that the contributions by the employer and the employee to the Employees’ Provident Fund be reduced from the current 12 per cent of the basic salary each to 10 per cent each,...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who will spend about two hours in the capital on Thursday, is scheduled to address a gathering of over one lakh farmers at Prabhat Tara ground here, inaugurate a number o...

Around 40,000 people engaged in loading and unloading coal at various BCCL and ECL mines here will benefit from the newly launched Pradhan Mantri Shram Yogi Maan-dhan Yojana, a pension scheme for work...

A pension scheme has been announced for unorganised workers in the interim budget for 2019. This scheme, it has been claimed, is the largest such initiative in the world. The proposal is that all unor...

The Centre will swallow the contribution of unorganised workers under a new pension scheme in the event of the death of the subscriber and his or her spouse, according to an official notification.Cont...

The Pradhan Mantri Shram-Yogi Maandhan, billed as a mega pension plan, is patterned along two similar attempts by successive governments, including the Modi dispensation, at providing a social securit...