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Raksha Or SPARSH

Kumari Sonali

Raksha Or SPARSH:

Defence Ministry has said that System for Pensions Administration – Raksha or SPARSH has disbursed more than three thousand ninety crore rupees to Defense Pensioners digitally in the month of August this year.

  • More than five lakh sixty-two thousand Defence Pensioners migrated successfully on the digital platform of SPARSH in August.
  • SPARSH is a web-based system processing pension claims and crediting the pension directly into the bank accounts of defence pensioners without any external intermediary.
  • It has grown exponentially with more than 11 thousand 600 crore rupees disbursed in 2021-22, from just about 57 crore rupees in 2020-21.

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