In order to ensure sound growth and orderly development of Indian pension market, pension funds regulator PFRDA has introduced new set of draft regulations for intermediary institutions. PFRDA has notified four regulations to govern and regulate the pension industry under the New Pension System (NPS). These norms deal with regulation for custodians, trustee bank, enquiry investigation appeal and adjudication and regulation for centralised record keeping agencies.
PFRDA has stated that the four norms would ensure an effective and credible use of inspection, surveillance and enforcement powers, investigation and implementation of an efficient compliance programme in tune with the spirit of PFRDA Act. Further, the pension fund regulator will also explore market-based solutions under the NPS based on contributory system for securing and protecting the old-age pension for citizens of the country. The watchdog has invited public comments on the draft regulations by July 15.
Pension funds regulator PFRDA has been taking various measure to develop Indian pension market as nearly 26 crore of the 32 crore of the country’s working population is working in unorganized/informal sector. Presently, these workers are not taking benefits of pension system. Meanwhile, PFRDA has set target to increase the current number of subscribers under new pension scheme from 68.48 lakh to cross 1.50 crore by FY15. It also wants to increase the size of the corpus, which is currently at about Rs.56,000 crore, to cross the mark of Rs.1,50,000 crore by the end of this fiscal.
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