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Bandhan Life partners with Policybazaar to launch Pension plan
Bandhan Life Insurance has partnered with Policybazaar.com to...
EPFO launches centralised pension system, benefitting 6.8 mn members
The Centralized Pension Payments System (CPPS) is a paradigm shift...
EPFO onboards Air India, takes into fold 7,453 airline employees for social security benefits
These employees of Air India now will be entitled to benefits like they will receive extra 2 per cent employer's contributions in their provident fund (PF) accounts at 12 per cent of their wages New Delhi: fund body EPFO has onboarded Air India Ltd for social security...
PFRDA to ‘discuss’ plan to raise equity exposure in NPS to 75%
"Currently, they have a maximum equity exposure of 50 per cent but that too 50 per cent we call auto kind of investment. So this auto choice is nothing but it follows a lifecycle fund pattern where up to the age of 35, it will be 50 per cent in equity and balance will...
Assets under management of NPS, APY cross Rs 6.99 lakh cr: PFRDA
NPS, which mainly caters to organised sector employees, is segmented into central government, state government, corporate sector employees, all citizens model and NPS Lite New Delhi: Total assets managed under NPS and APY, the two flagship pension schemes of the...
2022: Daunting labour reforms, informal workers’ social security fund await take off
There is a provision in the industrial relations code that any unit with up to 300 workers will not need permission from the appropriate government for closure, retrenchment and lay off. At present, the threshold is 100 workers New Delhi: Ushering in a big wave of...
BJD MP urges GST Council to reduce tax on health insurance from 18% to 5% for sr citizens
“In order to provide relief to our senior citizens, it is necessary to reduce the existing GST rates on health insurance policies from 18 per cent to five per cent or exempt senior citizens from any GST on purchase of health insurance,” Patnaik said in the letter...
4 labour codes likely to be implemented by FY23 as many states ready draft rules
Union Labour Minister Bhupender Yadav in a reply to the Rajya Sabha earlier this week had said that the Occupational Safety, Health and Working Conditions Code is the only code on which the least number of 13 states have pre-published the draft rules New Delhi: The...
Govt saves Rs.2.25 lakh crore by DBT to the genuine beneficiaries through Aadhaar
Saurabh Garg, CEO,UIDAI "We want to use new technologies like Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain and machine learning to strengthen Aadhaar and to make it more secure and the last thing I want to focus on is information security and privacy.Aadhaar architecture is...
EPFO invested Rs 2,500 cr in Reliance Capital’s bonds: FinMin
Reliance Capital had defaulted on payment of principal and interest obligations on bonds held by EPFO.The total interest default on the non-convertible debentures (NCDs) (secured) is Rs 534.64 crore as of November 30, 2021 Reliance Capital owes its creditors over Rs...
Centre committed to achieving universalisation of social security, says Union Minister Bhupender Yadav
Union Labour and Employment Minister Bhupender Yadav The Minister further informed that the Labour Bureau of Ministry is undertaking all-India surveys on migrant workers, domestic workers, transport sector workers, which will help in developing policies for the...
Canada’s CPP Investments seeks to sell insurance groups in strategy U-turn
Private equity firms and investment managers including Blackstone Inc, Brookfield Asset Management and KKR & Co Inc have been building up their insurance arms in the last two years. They see an opportunity to use the capital from life insurance and annuities...