GNDU Non-Teaching Employees Assn seeks OPS restoration

Guru Nanak Dev University Non-Teaching Employees Association has urged the university authorities to implement the old pension scheme benefits to employees as per new notification received by state government.

Punjab Government has issued Gazette Notification according to which the employees recruited after the year 2004, whose recruitment process had started before the year 2004, have been given the benefit of the old pension scheme instead of the new pension scheme.

In this regard, Guru Nanak Dev University Non-Teaching Employees Association head Rajneesh Bhardwaj said that the organisation was struggling to get the old pension to its employees recruited before 2004.

“In the year 2023, when the Central Government had issued the above notification, letters were written to the Punjab Government and the Governor by the Guru Nanak Dev University Non-Teaching Employees Association that this rightful and legitimate demand of the employees should be fulfilled. While reading the gazette notification issued released by Punjab government, we feel that the employees deserve to be given the benefit at the earliest,” said Rajneesh.

The association now demands from the University Administration that this notification should be implemented as soon as possible so that the beneficiary employees can fill the option of their old pension. Along with this, the President demanded that the new pension scheme of all the employees recruited after 2004, should be removed and the old pension should be given.

Supporting restoration of Old Pension Scheme, he said that the old pension scheme will not only protect the interests of the employees but will also prove to be financially beneficial for the Punjab Government.

Amritsar