New Delhi, Oct 29 (PTI) Pension regulator PFRDA has saidit plans to introduce e-learning programme for training nearly5 lakh officers and other stakeholders to increase the reachof the government's flagship National Pension System.
The initiative for capacity building of intermediariesengaged with social security schemes like NPS and Atal PensionYojana (APY) through e-learning is crucial because the scopefor physical presence for training is "very limited", it said.
"...hence it is imperative to leverage technology in sucha way that learning and knowledge exchange becomes a normalengagement without external interventions," PFRDA said.
"This is the objective behind exploring the option of e-learning through a dedicated Learning Management System(LMS)," it said while inviting expression of interest forinstallation, commissioning and maintenance of LMS forimparting the training.
As per the document, successful bidder will be expectedto provide timely and effective online trainings on NPS or anyother scheme under NPS/APY to employees of Points of Presence(POPs), corporates, nodal officers of central and stategovernments.
In all, the Pension Fund Regulatory and DevelopmentAuthority (PFRDA) aims to impart training to as many as497,185 officers and stakeholders.
The proposed LMS solution would be implemented based onmanaged cloud based hosting model over a dedicated instance,the document said.
NPS earlier known as New Pension Scheme (NPS) waslaunched in January, 2004 and in the initial phase covered thenew entrants to the central government services (excludingArmed Forces) as well as state government and centralautonomous bodies. NPS was extended to all citizens of Indiain May, 2009.
There were 1.1 crore subscribers of NPS with asset undermanagement totalling about Rs 2 lakh crore at September end,as per the website of NPS Trust.
Last week, the PFRDA had increased fees under NPS forPOPs with an aim to increase coverage of the social securityscheme. PTI NKD CS SASBT.
This is unedited, unformatted feed from the Press Trust of India wire.