New Delhi, Sept. 23 -- System for Pension Administration - Raksha (SPARSH) has resolved legacy discrepancies--upto the extent of 5.60 lakh out of 6.43 lakh cases (87%)--ensuring protection of entitlements of defence pensioners. It has also strengthened grievance redressal, bringing down average disposal time from 56 days in April 2025 to just 20 days now. As on date, 31.54 lakh defence pensioners across India and Nepal are now onboarded on SPARSH, a release from Ministry of Defence said.

Additionally, more than 100 outreach events were conducted in last one year. Till now, 211 SPARSH Outreach Programmes and 193 Raksha Pension Samadhan Ayojans (RPSAs) have been organised. During this year, DAD has actively participated in 13th and 14th Al...