New Delhi, Aug. 12 -- Platform workers associated with companies such as Zomato, Swiggy, Blinkit, Ola, Uber and Urban Company can use the National Pension System (NPS) to build a retirement corpus, with contributions starting at Rs.99.

The Pension Fund Regulatory and Development Authority (PFRDA), in a post on X on 12 August, noted, "With NPS for Platform Workers, you can start with just Rs.99 and contribute at your own pace, with no minimum and no maximum contribution limit."

Here's how this pension scheme works for platform workers.

PFRDA introduced the NPS e-shramik (Platform Service Partner) Model through a circular dated 29 October 2025 to extend NPS to gig and platform workers. The model allows gig workers associated with digital...