National Pension
System
NPS
is an easily accessible, low cost, tax-efficient, flexible and portable
retirement savings account. Under the NPS, the individual contributes to his retirement
account and also his employer can co-contribute for the social security/welfare
of the individual. NPS is designed on a defined contribution basis wherein the
subscriber contributes to his account, there is no defined benefit that would
be available at the time of exit from the system and the accumulated wealth
depends on the contributions made and the income generated from investment of
such wealth.
NPS Lite
NPS
Lite is a model of NPS which is low-cost, feature optimized model, aimed at
economically disadvantaged sections of the society. The NPS Lite model has been
developed by PFRDA to provide a uniform platform for old age income security to
all sections of society and facilitate economically weaker sections of the
society to join the NPS platform. NPS Lite is intended to reach its target
population through specific entities identified by PFRDA, termed as Aggregators,
explained in further detail below.
Aggregators
Aggregators
are entities identified by PFRDA for making NPS available to their constituent
subscriber base and maintain them into NPS Lite system. Thus, Aggregators shall
be the main interface between the NPS Lite subscriber and NPS architecture. The
Regulations for Aggregators under NPS Lite-2010 (hereinafter referred to as “Regulation”) is the regulatory framework
that governs the NPS Lite model and the functioning of Aggregators.
For
further details w.r.t. role and registration of Aggregator, please click on the
link below:
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