As envisioned by the Hon'ble Prime Minister, Department of Pension & Pensioners' Welfare (DoPPW) took over the task of documenting the administrative history of India through personal memoirs of the retired employees. Fructifying this, DoPPW launched an online platform entitled 'Anubhav' in March 2015. It provides retiring/retired employees with an opportunity to convey information related to their contribution in enhancing the effectiveness of the various Government policies including best practices and innovations, in which they had been an active part of during their careers.
The portal is celebrating its glorious 10 years this year with publication of more than 12,500 write-ups and conferring of 78 Anubhav Awards.
In the current year, under National Anubhav Awards Scheme, 2025, write-ups from 42 Ministries/Departments/Organisations were published. Out of a total of almost 1500 write-ups published by the Ministries and Departments, 15 write-ups have been painstakingly selected through a detailed process of scrutiny.
Dr. Jitendra Singh, Hon’ble Minister of State for Ministry of Personnel, PG & Pensions will felicitate 15 awardees from 11 Ministries or Departments. CRPF with 04 awards has the highest representation followed by 02 awardees from DRDO. For the first time, employees from Public Sector Bank (SBI) and Central Public Sector Enterprise (BHEL), Department of Land Resources and Ministry of Jal Shakti are finishing the podium. Also, 33% percent of the total awardees are women employees this year, indicating their growing participation and contribution in the Governance.
Also, Dr. Jitendra Singh, Hon’ble MOS(PP) will inaugurate the 57th Pre-Retirement Counselling (PRC) Workshop, going to be attended by more than 1,200 soon-to-be retiring employees.
The Department of Pension & Pensioners’ Welfare has been conducting Pre-Retirement Counselling (PRC) Workshops, throughout the country, as part of Good Governance, to facilitate officials who are about to retire, in the superannuation process. The Workshop, being held for the benefit of retiring employees of the Government of India, is a revolutionary step in the direction of ‘Ease of Living’ of the pensioners. In this workshop, the retiring employees will be equipped with the issues relating to timely payment of pension and processing formalities through Bhavishya, CGHS benefits available to pensioners, grievance redressal through CPENGRAMS portal, Anubhav portal, investment options and the income-tax incentives.
Also, a Banks’ Exhibition will also be organized, wherein 19 Pension Disbursing Banks and India Post Payments Bank (IPPB) are participating. All pensioners’ related banking services will be made available to the participants. Banks will also guide the retirees on opening of pension account and investment of pension corpus in various schemes, suitable to them.
In the ceremony, comprehensive guidelines on Nation-wide DLC campaign 4.0 will also be released for its smooth and seamless conduct during November, 2025. This initiative has been instrumental in bringing ‘ease in the life’ of the pensioners as they can now submit their annual life certificates within the confines of their homes through the mobile phones.
