The Maharashtra cabinet gave its nod to the proposal that offers an option of availing the Old Pension Scheme (OPS) to the state government employees who joined the service after November 2005.
The decision comes days after the government as well as semi-government employees and officials went on a strike to press for their demand of restoring the OPS.
Vishwas Katkar, general secretary of the Maharashtra state employees’ confederation, said, the decision will benefit some 26,000 state government employees who were selected before November 2005 but received joining letters later.
There are as many as 9.5 lakh state employees who joined the service before November 2005 and they already enjoy the benefits of the OPS.