J&K panel tasked with clearing old pension claims and fund-transfer delays

A high-level committee chaired by the Director General of Accounts and Treasuries will coordinate departments and pension agencies to process eligible claims, withdraw accumulated corpus and transfer funds to the government exchequer and employees’ GPF accounts.

Jammu and Kashmir has set up a high-level committee to speed up long-pending cases on coverage under the Old Pension Scheme, according to a government order issued after the administration’s September 28, 2026 directive on employees appointed against posts or vacancies advertised before the New Pension Scheme took effect under SRO-400 on December 24, 2009. The panel will be chaired by the Director General of Accounts and Treasuries and will include senior officials from the Funds Organisation and the Finance Department, with the Chief Accounts Officer at the DGAT serving as member secretary. Its remit is to work with administrative departments to ensure eligible cases are properly documented, sent to the Finance Department and processed without avoidable delay. It will also coordinate with the J&K Funds Organisation, the Pension Fund Regulatory and Development Authority and Protean eGov Technologies, the designated central recordkeeping agency, to clear procedural and technical bottlenecks, including the withdrawal of accumulated pension corpus and its transfer to the government exchequer and employees’ GPF accounts. The order also requires the committee to keep track of GPF account allotments, cases held up with the National Securities Depository Limited or the CRA, and the progress of financial reconciliation linked to the New Pension Scheme. Administrative departments will remain responsible for verifying service records, advertisement notices and appointment papers, while the member secretary will act as the nodal officer for receiving, registering and monitoring cases.