New Delhi, March 10 -- union Minister of State for Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions Jitendra Singh on Tuesday interacted with representatives of various pensioners' associations and chaired the 35th meeting of the Standing Committee of Voluntary Agencies (SCOVA) in New Delhi.
SCOVA was constituted in 1986 by the Department of Pension and Pensioners' Welfare to institutionalise coordination between the government and pensioners' associations.
The committee functions under the chairmanship of the Minister of State for Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions, with the Secretary of the Department of Pension and Pensioners' Welfare serving as its secretary.
The committee includes 15 non-official members representing pensioners' wel...