{"id":371890,"date":"2026-09-16T16:09:44","date_gmt":"2026-09-16T10:39:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/?p=371890"},"modified":"2026-09-16T16:09:44","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T10:39:44","slug":"pension-sakhis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/pension-sakhis\/","title":{"rendered":"Pension Sakhis"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"content-box-green\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>News: <\/strong>Department of Rural Development (DoRD)\u00a0and the\u00a0Pension Fund Regulatory and Development Authority (PFRDA) signed a MoU to create and support a community-based outreach mechanism of \u2018Pension Sakhis\u2019\u00a0across rural India.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h2 class=\"red-h2-box\">About Pension Sakhis<\/h2>\n<figure style=\"width: 279px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com\/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRZ5lVbEqWztWvTNP5QQN_nirVd985OwtVVJFDBMbSows5tvtLD-Y35ceul&amp;s=10\" alt=\"Pension Sakhis\" width=\"279\" height=\"350\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: The Tribune<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Pension Sakhis <\/strong>are a new<strong> community-based network <\/strong>which will work as <strong>trusted community-level facilitators <\/strong>to take <strong>pension awareness and retirement planning closer to rural households, <\/strong>particularly reaching SHG members, rural women, Lakhpati Didis and other rural participants.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Nodal Department:<\/strong> This is an initiative of <strong>Department of Rural Development (DoRD)<\/strong>\u00a0and the\u00a0<strong>Pension Fund Regulatory and Development Authority (PFRDA).<\/strong><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Focus<\/strong>: The focus is on <strong>enrolment<\/strong>, <strong>financial awareness<\/strong> and <strong>informed <\/strong>decision-making.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Features:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Network Integration:<\/strong> The initiative seeks <strong>to leverage the extensive community institutional network created under the <a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/deendayal-antyodaya-yojana-national-rural-livelihood-mission-launches-national-campaign-sangathan-se-samriddhi-to-mobilize-10-crore-rural-women-into-self-help-groups\/\">Deendayal Antyodaya Yojana\u2013National Rural Livelihoods Mission (DAY-NRLM)<\/a>,<\/strong> including its Banking Correspondent (BC) Sakhis and other trained community resource persons.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">It will use <strong>women-led SHGs<\/strong> to help reach households that have <strong>limited access to financial advice and pension-planning services<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">It will <strong>support households with information on pension and retirement planning at doorsteps, facilitate enrolment,<\/strong> and provide assistance in <strong>understanding pension-related services<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">It will<strong> improve awareness and adoption<\/strong> of pension products, including the <strong>National Pension System (NPS).<\/strong><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Monitoring and tracking:<\/strong> <strong>\u00a0Digital dashboards, mobile and web-based solutions, and unique identifier-based tracking<\/strong> through <strong>Central Recordkeeping Agencies<\/strong> will support the monitoring of outreach, enrolment and the performance of Pension Sakhis.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News: Department of Rural Development (DoRD)\u00a0and the\u00a0Pension Fund Regulatory and Development Authority (PFRDA) signed a MoU to create and support a community-based outreach mechanism of \u2018Pension Sakhis\u2019\u00a0across rural India. About Pension Sakhis Pension Sakhis are a new community-based network which will work as trusted community-level facilitators to take pension awareness and retirement planning closer to&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/pension-sakhis\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Pension Sakhis<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10366,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,3127,956,12039],"tags":[11872,3590],"class_list":["post-371890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-economy","category-schemes-and-programs","category-knolls","tag-9pm-daily-factly","tag-pib","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371890","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10366"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=371890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371890\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=371890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=371890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=371890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}