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After No To Old Pension Scheme In Maharashtra, D Fadnavis Switches To "Not Negative"

After No To Old Pension Scheme In Maharashtra, D Fadnavis Switches To "Not Negative"

NDTV
Thursday, January 26, 2023 8:42 AM GMT

OPS demand: "We will discuss it... But whatever be the solution, it has to be long-term," says Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister

A month after he said the Sena-BJP government in Maharashtra has no plans to restore the Old Pension Scheme, Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis today spoke of a possible rethink.

"Let me be clear, we are not negative about it (OPS). We will discuss it with finance and other departments. But whatever be the solution, it has to be long-term, not short-term," the BJP leader said, mirroring the rather ambiguous position taken by his party in other states as well.

The Congress and other Opposition parties have recently reverted to the OPS — phased out in early 2004 — in states they govern, such as Himachal Pradesh and Rajasthan. The BJP has been against it, citing huge financial burden on governments, but its leaders have added a may-consider-it caveat.

The OPS gave employees with 20 years of service at least 50 per cent of their last salary as pension, but the burden was entirely on the government and there was no corpus collected from the staff. Under the New Pension Scheme (NPS), government and staff both contribute — 10 and 14 per cent of the salary, respectively — towards a fund from which the pension is later drawn.

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