17th Pension Adalat to Take Up 897 Pending Grievances

The correct answer is Dr. Jitendra Singh. The 17th Pension Adalat is being held under the chairmanship of the Union Minister of State for Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions, Dr. Jitendra Singh, at the T. N. Chaturvedi Memorial Hall of the Indian Institute of Public Administration in New Delhi on 5 October 2026. The sitting is organised by the Department of Pension and Pensioners Welfare, which falls under that ministry, so its Minister of State presides. Option A is wrong because Nitin Gadkari holds the road transport and highways portfolio and has no part in pension grievance redressal. Option C is wrong because Amit Shah is the Home Minister. Option D is wrong as well: Nirmala Sitharaman handles finance, and although pensions involve money, the Pension Adalat is an initiative of the Ministry of Personnel and not of the Ministry of Finance. At this sitting the chair will also release flyers on the previous edition and a booklet of frequently asked questions for family pensioners.

The correct answer is 897. The 17th Pension Adalat is thematic and lists 897 long-pending grievances belonging only to super-senior pensioners and family pensioners. These complaints relate to 24 ministries and departments and were lodged on the CPENGRAMS portal, the online grievance system for central government pensioners. Options A, B and D give figures that do not match the number of cases taken up at this sitting. The scale is best judged against the record of the series: in the sixteen Pension Adalats held before this one, 20,676 of 28,797 grievances were closed on the spot, a success rate of 71.79 per cent, and the rest were settled later through inter-ministerial review meetings held by the Department of Pension and Pensioners Welfare. Complainants from across the country may attend this sitting either in person or through video conferencing, because the proceedings are being conducted in hybrid mode.

The correct answer is 2017. The Department of Pension and Pensioners Welfare introduced Pension Adalats in 2017 as an alternative way of settling complicated and long-pending pension complaints of central government pensioners. The design is that every stakeholder connected with a particular kind of grievance sits together and disposes of the matter on the spot, an arrangement the department describes as a whole-of-government approach. Because it removes the need for costly and slow court proceedings, it also serves the commitment of the central government to reduce litigation. Options A, C and D name other years and do not mark the start of the initiative. Since then the mechanism has handled 28,797 grievances over sixteen editions and resolved 20,676 of them in the hall itself, a success rate of 71.79 per cent. The 17th edition, on 5 October 2026, is the first thematic one, devoted to super-senior pensioners and family pensioners.

The correct answer is 71.79 per cent. Across the sixteen Pension Adalats held before the present one, 20,676 of 28,797 grievances were closed on the spot, which works out to a success rate of 71.79 per cent. Options A, B and D are close-sounding figures, but none of them matches that ratio. The complaints left over were not abandoned: the Department of Pension and Pensioners Welfare took them up afterwards in inter-ministerial review meetings, so the cases from every earlier sitting were eventually settled. This record is why the mechanism, started in 2017, is held up as an efficient and cost-effective alternative to litigation for central government pensioners. The 17th sitting carries the idea further by making the hearing thematic, with 897 grievances of super-senior pensioners and family pensioners, drawn from 24 ministries and departments and lodged on the CPENGRAMS portal, listed for redressal on 5 October 2026.