PFRDA Inviting Articles, Blogs and write-ups from members of ICAI

Subject- Inviting Articles, Blogs and write-ups Pension Sanchay Website and Blog from officials and members of Institute of Chartered Accountants of India

To meet PFRDA’s overarching mandate for increasing financial literacy with special emphasis to concepts of pension and retirement PFRDA has recently launched the website Pension Sanchay (www.pensionsanchay.org.in). You would be glad to know that the website was launched by Hon’ble Finance Minister Sh Arun Jaitleyji on February 28th 2018 at the 4th Annual Pension Conference. The website is receiving good attention from the general public and till date it has garnered visits of approx. 15000 visitors.

2. Ramadoria Committee Report on Indian Household Finance, released in July 2017, has found that approx. one third of the households surveyed hadn’t even started planning for their retirement. The Report further highlights that Indian households make lower allocations to any form of retirement savings than their counterparts overseas. PF RDA understands that this situation of non-initiation of savings and investing and skewed allocations to retirement further highlights the need for some mechanism to address the requirement of awareness building in this regard.

3. Taking the same into account, the Pension Sanchay has been prepared with topics related to fundamentals of money, importance of saving and investment, need of retirement planning from a fundamental and conceptual level. Furthermore, the website features proprietary calculators like Compounding Effect calculator, Real Return Calculator, How much one needs to retire calculator and Savings & Investment Calculator. In addition, the website features a blog section as well, where articles/ biogs on the aforementioned topics are presented.

4. Owing to unique position your members enjoy with your respective clienteles as thought leaders and influencers in the field of finance, especially personal finance, we would like to invite articles, biogs and write-ups for the Pension Sanchay Website &Blog from officials and members of ICAI.

5. For the said write-ups/ articles the authors would be paid an honorarium of Rs.1000/-, per published contribution. The names and designations of the contributors would also be presented in the respective write-ups. Plagiarism will not be tolerated by the Authority and it is further expected that the authors would ensure that the articles/ papers/ biogs etc. are original works and are not copied. Citations, sources etc. wherever necessary should be quoted in the papers/ articles/ biogs. Also the reference articles/ data/ survey reports/ statistics if any, should also be submitted along with the presented articles/ papers/ biogs. Please note that the contributions would be submitted to the Pension Sanchay editorial committee for further screening and approval before final publishing.

6. We feel, and you would also concur, that building of awareness and knowledge base in this important aspect of personal finance would go a long way in increasing financial literacy with special emphasis to concepts of pension and retirement.

7. We would request you to disseminate the information in your respective offices/ regional offices/ zonal circles and among your staff etc. for further action. Interested contributors may submit their contributions to the following address-

The HOD,

Financial Literacy Department

Pension Fund Regulatory and Development Authority

8-14/A, ChatrapatiShivajiBhawan

Qutab Institutional Area

New Delhi-110016

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