SHIMLA: In election year, demand for old-pension scheme in Himachal Pradesh is growing among state government employees. Under the banner of Himachal Pradesh New Pension Scheme Employees Association (NPSEA), the employees have launched a nine-day “padyatra” (foot march) to seek old pension, while chief minister Jai Ram Thakur-led government has maintained a silence on their demand.
The issue echoed in the state assembly on Saturday, when the Congress MLA from Kullu, Sunder Singh Thakur, while participating in the discussion on motion of thanks on governor’s address said the Congress government, on coming to power, will restore the old-pension scheme. After the announcement of old-pension scheme to government employees by Congress regimes in Rajasthan and Chhatisgarh, now the BJP government of the state is under immense pressure to announce the same and adding to the woes Congress had already announced to give the same on coming to power.
