Seventeenth Pension Adalat to take up 897 long-pending grievances of super-senior and family pensioners
4 October 2026
The Department of Pension and Pensioners' Welfare announced on 4 October 2026 that Dr. Jitendra Singh, Minister of State for Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions, will chair the 17th Pension Adalat on 5 October 2026.
The venue is the T. N. Chaturvedi Memorial Hall at the Indian Institute of Public Administration, New Delhi, and the Adalat will be held in hybrid mode.
897 long-pending grievances of super-senior pensioners and family pensioners, filed on the CPENGRAMS portal, drawn from 24 Ministries and Departments, will be taken up.
The Pension Adalat is an on-the-spot grievance redressal mechanism for Central Government pensioners, begun in 2017.
Across the first 16 editions, 20,676 of 28,797 grievances were resolved, a success rate of 71.79 per cent.
Success-story flyers from the Adalat of 13 May 2026 and a booklet of frequently asked questions for family pensioners will be released.
In plain words
CPENGRAMS Centralised Pension Grievance Redress and Monitoring System — The Centre's online portal on which Central Government pensioners file and track grievances.
IIPA Indian Institute of Public Administration — A Delhi-based institute for training and research in public administration.