Awareness-cum-registration programme on PM-SYM held at Tezpur

A Correspondent

Tezpur: A registration ceremony-cum-awareness programme on Pradhan Mantri Shram Yogi Maan Dhan (PM-SYM), a pension scheme for unorganized workers, was held at the office of the Assistant Commissioner, Labour Welfare Department, zone-III on Saturday.

The programme was presided over by Bornali Changkakoti, Assistant Labour Commissioner, Tezpur in the presence of the president of Sonitpur Zila Parishad, Dolly Surin, Dr. Pradip Kumar Lahkar, special member of a medical advisory board, plantation workers, and Labour Officer Nizara Hazarika.

Speaking on the occasion, Dr. Pradip Kumar Lahkar said that the pension scheme would go a long way in ensuring financial security to a large number of people engaged in the unorganized sector. He said that the scheme would provide security not only to the workers but to their families too. He stressed the need to create mass awareness about this scheme so that a large number of people get benefit from it.

Attending the programme as a resource person, Dipankar Tamuli, District Manager, Common Service Centre (CSC) said that once the beneficiary joins the scheme at the entry age of 18-40 years, the beneficiary has to contribute till 60 years of age and on attaining the age of 60 years, the subscriber will get the assured monthly pension of Rs 3,000 per month with benefit of family pension, as the case may be. Tamuli also asked the subscribers to visit Common Service Centre (CSC) with Aadhaar number and saving a bank account to get enrolled in the scheme. The registration process is going on in full swing at 187 in Sonitpur and 101in Biswanath district Common Service Centres.

He further added that the scheme would cover unorganized workers who were working or engaged as home-based workers, street vendors, mid-day meal workers, head loaders, brick kiln workers, cobblers, rag pickers, domestic workers, washermen, rickshaw pullers, landless laborers, agricultural workers, and construction workers, among others.

Around 600 unorganized workers/traders registered under the PM-SYM pension scheme. The function was also attended by Dr. Biren Nath, social worker, Pranita Das, Labour Inspector, and other district officers.

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