Important Facts For Prelims
System for Pension Administration Raksha
- 15 Dec 2022
- 2 min read
Why in News?
Recently, the Ministry of Defense has urged the stakeholders of System for Pension Administration Raksha (SPARSH) to make it more user friendly.
- One Rank One Pension (OROP) scheme also provides the payment of the same pension to military officers for the same rank for the same length of service, irrespective of the date of retirement.
What is SPARSH?
- About:
- It is an integrated system for automation of sanction and disbursement of defence pension.
- This web-based system processes pension claims and credits pension directly into the bank accounts of defence pensioners without relying on any external intermediary.
- A Pensioner Portal is available for pensioners to view their pension related information, access services and register complaints, if any.
- Objectives:
- SPARSH envisages the establishment of Service Centres to provide last-mile connectivity to pensioners who may be unable to directly access the SPARSH portal.
- SPARSH has been designed keeping defence pensioners at the centre, who will be given a completely transparent view of their pension account, through an online portal.
- It aims address the current challenges in the pension sanctioning and disbursement process such as
- Decentralised solution existing in silos
- Manual intervention in processing
- Lack of Centralised information for addressing pensioner queries etc.
- Benefits:
- It provides the option to the pensioner to use enabled services for quicker processing of his requests and signing of declarations, making his experience a truly paperless and hassle free one.
- It captures and maintains a complete history of events and entitlements of the pensioner – right from the date of commencement of pension to the date of cessation of pension due to the last eligible beneficiary.
