PFRDA conducts workshop on National Pension System (NPS)
Press Information Bureau
Government of India
Ministry of Finance
09-June-2017 18:32 IST
PFRDA conducts workshop on National Pension System (NPS) for Corporates
in coordination with FICCI at Ahmedabad; Overall number of NPS and APY
subscribers have crossed 1.60 crores with overall Asset under Management
(AUM) of more than 1,87,000 crores.
Pension Fund Regulatory Development Authority (PFRDA) in its endeavor to
promote NPS among the Corporates have embarked upon conducting NPS
Workshops at various locations across the country. A Corporate Meet was
conducted at Ahmedabad,Gujarat today in association with Federation of
Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI), Gujarat State Council.
Addressing the participants, Shri Akhilesh Kumar, Deputy General
Manager, PFRDA informed them about the longevity scenario across the
world and the need of pension in old age and sounded the importance of
pension to be considered by everyone. National Pension System (NPS)
promoted by the Central Government provides the platform to every
segment of the society for savings for retirement and briefed the
contours of NPS for old age income security. He requested the
participants to utilize this meet for better understanding of NPS and
implementing the same in their respective organizations. He highlighted
the key factor of low cost pension product – NPS for a valuable pension
in the old age.
Shri Kumar Sharadindu, MD & CEO, SBI Pension Fund Management Company
Limited briefed the role of the Pension Funds under NPS architecture
and the benefits of long term investment and the optimal return being
generated by the Pension Fund following the investment guidelines issued
by PFRDA.
Dr Param Shah, Head, FICCI Gujarat State Council in his welcome address
lauded the efforts of PFRDA for organizing such meetings across the
country and creating awareness about NPS which can be effective platform
for corporates to provide pension to their employees.
As on 09th June 2017, more than 6.09 lacs employees of 3,593 Registered
Corporates have joined NPS under NPS Corporate Model. More than 4.62
lacs subscribers have joined NPS under NPS-All Citizen Model. The
overall number of NPS and APY subscribers have crossed 1.60 crores with
overall Asset under Management (AUM) of more than 1,87,000 crores.
More than 80 participants from around 50 corporates attended the
workshop. Ahmedabad / Gujarat based POPs were also present for the
workshop. PFRDA official gave a detailed presentation on NPS and
informed the participants about the features, benefits and the process
of joining NPS to the employees as well as to the employers. Official of
Deloitte Haskins & Sells LLP gave a presentation on Tax benefits of
NPS as compared to other financial products. Two Ahmedabad based
Registered Corporates- namely Adani Power and Arvind Limited, informed
the participants about their experience of facilitating NPS to their
employees and the need and benefits of implementing NPS in the
organization.
PFRDA officials clarified the queries regarding joining of
NPS, tax benefits, POPs details, timelines, transfer of superannuation
fund to NPS, annuity etc to the participants.
The recent developments under NPS-Private Sector (All citizen and Corporate) are listed below:
i.Process of Transfer of Superannuation / Recognised Provident Fund to National Pension System.
ii.Allowing option to change the investment choice or asset allocation ratio twice in a financial year
iii. Dispensing of requirement of submission of physical
application form in case of subscriber opening account online and
e-Signing the document.
iv.Introduction of Alternative Investment Fund-a separate class of Asset “A”
v.Introduction of two new life cycle funds (LC 75 and LC 25)
vi.Under Tier-I account, minimum contribution
requirement in a financial year is reduced from Rs 6,000/- to Rs 1,000/-
PFRDA’s endeavor is to significantly scale-up these segments during the ongoing months.
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