New Delhi, Aug. 25 -- The Pension Fund Regulatory and Development Authority (PFRDA) needs to bring in fresh measures to raise enrolments under the government's Unified Pension Scheme (UPS), chairman S. Ramann said at an industry event here on Monday.

While the government has extended the deadline to 30 September from 30 June, the uptake under UPS remains modest compared to that for the Atal Pension Yojana (APY), which crossed 81 million subscribers.

As on 20 July, only 31,555 central government employees had opted to switch from the National Pension System (NPS) to UPS, according to finance ministry data detailed in Parliament.

The chairman did not specify the nature of the measures that could be taken and whether the enrolment date wo...