Agarwal's relationship with the finance ministry has been choppy, particularly after P Chidambaram.
Government auditor CAG has rapped five regulators, including Sebi, Irda and PNGRB, for keeping their surplus funds worth over Rs 2,142 crore collected through fee and penalty outside the government accounts.
Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee on Monday held a meeting with senior BJP leaders L K Advani, Sushma Swaraj and Yashwant Sinha to discuss these two legislations.
Earlier, the Indian Banks' Association has shown interest in the NPS for new bank recruits. Though no concrete decision has been taken so far. In the Budget tabled in Parliament, the government said that self-employed persons subscribing to the NPS would be subjected to tax only at the time of withdrawal.
Last week, the Pension Fund Regulatory Development Authority (PFRDA) appointed State Bank of India, UTI Mutual Fund and the Life Insurance Corporation as fund managers for the schemes to manage the corpus that has accumulated since the NPS was launched in January 1, 2004. At present, the NPS is restricted to all central government employees who have been recruited after January 1, 2004.
The pension regulator, the Pension Fund Regulatory Development Authority, is taking various steps to boost the numbers, cairman D Swarup tells Vrishti Beniwal in an exclusive interview
Pension Fund Regulatory Development Authority rolled out the NPS for all citizens from May 1. Till July 31, only 1,109 forms were collected by the 22 points of presence appointed by the interim pension fund regulator. ICICI Prudential Pension Fund Management, which has 49 branches authorised by the PFRDA to act as points of presence, collected 218 forms, the highest among all 22 POPs.
According to the Centre's legislative business list for the upcoming session, three bills have also been listed to replace three ordinances.
The opposition will seek to target the government on the issue of farmers' plight as well as their demand for a legal backing for minimum support price.
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