Implement 'pension scheme' for all government employees post year 2005: MLA Satyajit Tambe

The Maharashtra government should prepare a pension scheme to guide the country. Maharashtra Government should create its own separate pension scheme by taking the benefits of the old pension scheme as it is and combining it with the good features of the new pension scheme and it should be applicable to all the government employees of the state after 2005. MLA Satyajit Tambe demanded that this should be announced in the upcoming budget session.

MLA Satyajit Tambe has proposed a permanent and comprehensive 'new' solution for government employees in Maharashtra, while the issue of the old pension scheme is in the news across the state and the country. Tambe, who has been pushing for the old pension scheme since the beginning, met Chief Minister Eknath Shinde and Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis and demanded that Maharashtra implement a separate pension scheme that would take the goodies of the new pension and provide permanent social security. Scheme with provisions of the old pension scheme.

State government employees were assured of implementation of the old pension scheme from time to time in the Legislature as well as in the employees' delegation. However, no concrete decision has been taken yet. During the Nagpur winter session, government employees had called for agitation regarding this demand. At that time, Satyajit Tambe had gone to the protest site and expressed his support.

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Now Tambe has also suggested a solution to the government on how to give the benefits of the old pension scheme to the government employees without demanding it. For this he has taken the help of the guaranteed pension scheme in the neighbouring state of Andhra Pradesh. In this scheme, the Andhra Pradesh government has adopted a hybrid model of both the old and present pension schemes.

According to this scheme, employees will get 50 percent of the salary received at the time of retirement as pension, thereby ensuring the future of the employees. There is a feeling of insecurity among the employees due to the benefits of the pension scheme running in Maharashtra being linked to the stock market.