National Pension Scheme: Recently the Ministry of Finance has released the data of subscribers of both the schemes. The number of people joining both the schemes has increased by 23% to Rs 6.24 crore.
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National Pension Scheme: National Pension Scheme in the country (National Pension Scheme-NPS) and government like Atal Pension Yojana pension plans becoming increasingly popular. Recently, the Ministry of Finance has approved both the schemes. subscribers The figures have been released. The number of people joining both the schemes has increased by 23% to Rs 6.24 crore. Last year till March 31, this number was 5.20 crore. informed by the ministry National Pension Scheme The number of subscribers has increased from last year to 6.24 crore till March 4, 2023, as on March 5, 2022 this number was 5.08 crore. From last year, this year it has seen an increase of 22.88%.
Along with the subscribers, the Assets Under Management (AUM) under NPS and APY have also increased by 23.45 percent on an annual basis to Rs 8.82 lakh crore (March 04, 2023).
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Increased registration in APY and NPS
At present, out of 6.24 crore subscribers, 23.86 lakh and 60.72 lakh subscribers are government employees. In this, the number of corporate subscribers is 16.63 lakh. By March 4, 2023, the number of APY subscribers increased by 28.4% to 4.53 crore.
Benefits of NPS
Customers get many benefits of investing in the National Pension Scheme NPS. By investing in it, you can swap in any other option later if you want. Apart from this, you also get returns according to the average interest rate of 8-10%. 40% corpus can be taken as pension at the time of retirement according to annuity. If you want to collect funds for retirement, then National Pension Scheme can be a better option. On the other hand, apart from the education of your children, you will not be able to manage your household expenses easily through this.