Andhra Pradesh Contributory Pension Scheme (APCPS) Employees Association State Executive Committee member Ganta Srinivasa Rao and the association’s Vizianagaram district president R. Siva Kumar on Sunday said that their lives would be plunged into misery post retirement in the absence of pension and other social security measures.
The association members staged a symbolic protest by tonsuring their heads and begging for alms in Vizianagaram to step up pressure on the government to restore the Old Pension Scheme (OPS) which was in force till 2003.
Speaking at the meeting, Mr. Srinivasa Rao said that the employees would not draw even a pension of ₹3,000 a month after retirement under CPS. He said that many judges, doctors and teachers were getting meagre pension after retirement.
