{"id":64944,"date":"2025-09-24T14:47:05","date_gmt":"2025-09-24T09:17:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=64944"},"modified":"2025-09-24T14:47:05","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T09:17:05","slug":"sparsh-pension-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/sparsh-pension-system\/","title":{"rendered":"SPARSH Pension System"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>SPARSH Pension System Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Recently, System for Pension Administration \u2013 Raksha (SPARSH) has resolved legacy discrepancies\u2014upto the extent of 5.60 lakh out of 6.43 lakh cases (87%).<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About SPARSH Pension System<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is an initiative of the <\/span><b>Ministry of Defence, Government of India.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">SPARSH is world\u2019s largest pension system for defence personnel which aims to provide comprehensive <\/span><b>solution to the defence pensioners<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Objective:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Meeting the pension sanction and disbursement requirements for <\/span><b>Armed Forces<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> viz. Army, Navy, Air Force and Defence Civilians.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is administered by the <\/span><b>Defence Accounts Department<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> through the <\/span><b>Principal Controller of Defence Accounts (Pensions), Prayagraj<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and shall cater to all the three Services and allied organisations.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><b>Features of SPARSH Pension System<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Without relying on a <\/span><b>third-party intermediary,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> this web-based system handles pension claims, and deposits pension payments into the bank accounts of defence pensioners.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is a <\/span><b>centralized sanction<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, claim and pension disbursement system with easy validation and rectification of data through self-verification.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It uses a <\/span><b>digital process for pensioner identification<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, removing the requirement of multiple visits by pensioners to the pension offices.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The defence pensioner will be given a completely transparent view of his pension account through this platform.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It will capture and maintain a complete history of events and entitlements the pensioner right from the date of commencement of pension to the date of cessation of pension due to his\/her last eligible beneficiary.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The system would cater to all activities of the pension cycle namely<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"2\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Initiation and Sanction<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"2\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Disbursement<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"2\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Revision<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"2\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Service and Grievance Request Management<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Source:<\/b> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pib.gov.in\/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=2169746\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">PIB<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SPARSH Pension System is an initiative of the Ministry of Defence, Government of India.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":64959,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-64944","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64944\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}