Till which date has the ESIC New Amnesty Scheme, 2025 been extended?
- A.30 September 2026
- B.31 December 2026
- C.31 March 2027
- D.30 June 2027
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Explanation
The correct answer is 31 December 2026. The Employees' State Insurance Corporation began running the New Amnesty Scheme, 2025 from 1 October 2025, and the window was originally set to shut on 30 September 2026. After studying representations sent in by various stakeholders, the Corporation agreed to keep the offer alive for three further months, so the fresh period runs from 1 October 2026 and ends on 31 December 2026, with no change in any of the conditions attached to the scheme. Option A names 30 September 2026, which was the original closing date and is exactly the deadline that this extension replaced, so it is no longer the operative one. Options C and D push the deadline into the following year; the Ministry of Labour and Employment announced only a three-month extension, and no date beyond December has been notified for this scheme. Employers and insured persons must therefore come forward before the end of that month.
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Practice Questions
Court cases filed up to which date are eligible for settlement under the New Amnesty Scheme, 2025?
- A.31 March 2024
- B.31 March 2025
- C.30 September 2025
- D.31 December 2025
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Eligibility under the New Amnesty Scheme, 2025 is decided by the date on which the litigation began: only those court cases instituted up to 31 March 2025 may be taken up for settlement under it.
Read the full explanation →Under the scheme, an employer who has already paid the dues can have a pending case withdrawn on paying what share of the disputed damages?
- A.5%
- B.10%
- C.25%
- D.50%
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One of the three reliefs built into the New Amnesty Scheme, 2025 is meant for employers who have already cleared the contribution dues demanded of them but whose cases are still being heard.
Read the full explanation →Under the New Amnesty Scheme, 2025, how are damages treated when an ad-hoc assessment is settled?
- A.Damages are charged in full
- B.No damages are levied
- C.Damages are charged at half the assessed rate
- D.Damages are converted into an equal instalment plan
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Where the Corporation had raised a demand on an ad-hoc or estimated basis, the New Amnesty Scheme, 2025 allows the employer to close the matter by paying the contribution that was genuinely owed together with the interest on it, and the claim to damages is given up altogether.
Read the full explanation →By which year is India's senior citizen population projected to reach about 23 crore?
- A.2030
- B.2036
- C.2041
- D.2047
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The projection of about 23 crore senior citizens by that year is the reason given for strengthening institutional machinery and community participation under Atal Vayo Abhyuday Yojana.
Read the full explanation →Atal Vayo Abhyuday Yojana subsumed and expanded which earlier plan?
- A.National Action Plan for Senior Citizens
- B.National Social Assistance Programme
- C.National Policy on Older Persons
- D.Indira Gandhi National Old Age Pension Scheme
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Atal Vayo Abhyuday Yojana was launched in 2021 and it took in that earlier plan, widened its scope and brought a number of separate measures for older persons under a single umbrella scheme of the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment.
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