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The Centre informed the Lok Sabha on Monday that there is no proposal to consider restoring the Old Pension System (OPS) for its employees.
It also reiterated that the law does not permit refunding the back-accumulated money of employees to the State government in case of going back to OPS.
“There is no proposal under consideration of the Government of India for the restoration of the old pension scheme in respect of Central Government employees recruited on or after 01.01.2004,” Minister of State in the Finance Ministry Pankaj Chaudhary said in a written reply in Lok Sabha. However, he admitted that Representations have been received from time to time, which include the request for the restoration of the old pension scheme.
-Business Line

Against an aggregate loan write-off of Rs 10.42 lakh crore, PSBs have recovered just Rs 1.61 lakh crore from written-off loans, since financial year 2014-15. PSBs could not recover even Re 1 as against Rs 5 written-off during nine fiscal years starting 2014-15, data presented in the Lok Sabha on Monday showed
-Business Line

Any move by states to shift to the old pension scheme (OPS) would raise their fiscal burden by 4.5 times their expenditure under the NPS retirement benefits, according to the Reserve bank of India estimates made in study of state government budgets. “Internal estimates suggest that if all the State governments revert to OPS from the National Pension System (NPS), the cumulative fiscal burden could be as high as 4.5 times that of NPS, with the additional burden reaching 0.9 per cent of GDP annually by 2060” said the report titled “ State Finances: A Study of Budgets of 2023-24” released on Monday.
-Economic Times

Government lost Rs 1 lakh crore in taxes in FY'21 due to corporate tax cut, says MoS Finance  https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/economy/finance/government-lost-rs-1-lakh-crore-in-taxes-in-fy21-due-to-corporate-tax-cut-says-mos-finance/articleshow/102544590.cms  

In February, the Minister had informed Parliament that the revenue loss in 2019-20 fiscal due to reduction in corporate tax rate from 30 per cent to 22 per cent was Rs 1,28,170 crore.

As per the corporate tax collection data shared by Chaudhary, in fiscal 2022-23 the provisional revenues stood at over Rs 8.28 lakh crore, higher than over Rs 7.12 lakh crore in 2021-22.

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India's Top Jurist Fali Nariman Decodes The Supreme Court's Article 370 Verdict https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WrooFxo6hTI  India Today Dec 12, 2023
Eminent jurist and constitutional expert Fali Nariman voices his concern over what he describes as an 'incorrect appreciation of the Constitution' by the Supreme Court. He suggests that it should have followed the procedure stated in Article 368 of the Indian Constitution instead of Article 370, Clause 3.