Private employees are not people? : Prakash Pathak
■ Demand for single pension for all government and private employees
Nagpur: The state employees have called a strike from March 14 to demand the old pension scheme. Although their demand for pension is right, pension is not only a matter for government employees but also for those working in the private sector. As per the 1952 Act, the rules regarding pension are same for all. Pension amount is given to government employees by the government and to private employees by the respective private employer. In 2013, the Bhagat Singh Koshyari Committee discussed this. Therefore, there is no discrimination between government and private in pension
Prakash Pathak, National General Secretary of Retired Employees' Association (1995) expressed his opinion while talking to 'Punya Nagri' that one pension should be applied to all.