Bhavishya portal

Bhavishya is the online pension sanction and payment tracking system of the Department of Pension and Pensioners’ Welfare (DoPPW), which Rule 3 of the CCS (Pension) Rules, 2021 defines as the system for sanction of retirement benefits and for tracking their sanction and payment, and which Rule 53 makes the statutory channel for a central civil pension case unless an exemption order applies. Processing through it has been mandatory since 1 January 2017, under DoPPW Office Memorandum No. 55/14/2014/P&PW(C) Part-1 dated 29 November 2016.

The system carries a central government pension case from the salary data of the Drawing and Disbursing Officer a year before retirement to the credit of the first pension. The Head of Office prepares the case in it, the retiring employee files the single application, Form 6-A, the Pay and Accounts Office issues the Pension Payment Order through a linked accounting system, and the Central Pension Accounting Office seals it for the bank. Every action is dated, so a delay can be traced to the office that caused it.

As on 19 June 2026, Press Information Bureau release 2275673 counted 99 Ministries and Departments, 1,041 offices and 9,765 Drawing and Disbursing Officers on Bhavishya, and 3,28,116 Pension Payment Orders issued through it, with the average time to issue an order down to 64 days. Four organisations sit outside it: the Railways, Defence, Posts and Telecommunications, each with its own pension software.

This article sets out the legal basis, the history from the 2014 launch, the coverage and exclusions, the eight stages and the user roles inside the system, the timelines it tracks, what the retiree sees and files, the electronic order and DigiLocker, cases other than superannuation, the post-retirement services added since 2022, and the remedies where a case stalls.

Legal basis: Rule 3, Rule 53 and the 2016 Office Memorandum

Bhavishya rests on two instruments: a DoPPW Office Memorandum of 29 November 2016 that made it mandatory from 1 January 2017, and Rule 53 of the CCS (Pension) Rules, 2021, notified as G.S.R. 868(E) on 20 December 2021, which put the mandate into statute.

Rule 3 of the 2021 Rules defines Bhavishya as the system for sanction of retirement benefits and for tracking the sanction and payment of pension by the government servant and by the authorities concerned with sanctioning it. Rule 53(1) then requires the pension case of a government servant to be processed through that online pension sanctioning system unless the department, office or person is exempted by a general or special order of the Government. Two carve-outs follow. Rule 53(2)(a) requires physical transmission and manual processing where an exemption applies, and Rule 53(2)(b) allows a single action that cannot be performed in the system to be done manually inside an otherwise electronic case.

The Office Memorandum came first by five years. DoPPW Office Memorandum No. 55/14/2014/P&PW(C) Part-1 dated 29 November 2016 decided that every Head of Office would process all pension cases only through Bhavishya, and paragraph 5 gave that decision effect from 1 January 2017. Its stated reason was that a large proportion of retiring employees were not getting the Pension Payment Order in time despite the existing instructions. Paragraph 4 closed the obvious excuse in advance: all authorities are to follow the timelines prescribed under the CCS (Pension) Rules strictly, and in no case is a pension case to be delayed on account of electronic processing through Bhavishya.

The same Office Memorandum recorded the accounting link that still defines the system. Paragraph 3 required Pay and Accounts Offices to process cases through the pension module in COMPACT until the Public Financial Management System was made operational and integrated with Bhavishya. That integration has since happened: the Pension Payment Order is now generated in the Public Financial Management System and its number flows back into Bhavishya.

Later orders restated the mandate without changing it. Office Memorandum No. 55/14/2014-P&PW(C)/Part I dated 21 January 2021 directed that all types of pension cases be processed through Bhavishya. Office Memorandum File No. 55/4/2014-PPW(C)(Vol.II)-part-I dated 24 March 2025 required Form 6-A to be filled exclusively online, on Bhavishya or e-HRMS 2.0. Paragraph F(f) of DoPPW Office Memorandum No. 4/35/2024-P&PW(D)/10377 dated 29 September 2025 directed Ministries to universalise Bhavishya, with manual processing only as Rule 53 permits.

History from the 2014 launch to Bhavishya 12.0

Bhavishya was announced on 24 February 2014. Press Information Bureau release 104182 of that date, issued under the heading “Sanction of Pension Simplified and Streamlined”, stated that an online pension sanction and payment tracking system called Bhavishya had been launched, initially in 15 Ministries.

Roll-out beyond the main Secretariat took two years. The minutes of a DoPPW review meeting held on 17 March 2016 record 1,814 Drawing and Disbursing Officers registered and 4,975 in attached and subordinate offices and the paramilitary forces still to register, set 31 March 2016 as the deadline for all salary and pension Drawing and Disbursing Officers to do so, and made a National Informatics Centre email address mandatory for registration. By the time of the 29 November 2016 Office Memorandum, paragraph 2 records, the system had run successfully in the main Secretariat of every Ministry for a year and had been extended to over 3,000 Drawing and Disbursing Officers and Pay and Accounts Offices.

The system has been rebuilt several times since. The Integrated Pensioners’ Portal, launched at Vigyan Bhawan on 18 October 2022 and built with the State Bank of India, was released as Bhavishya version 9.0; it merged the grievance system CPENGRAMS, the feedback platform ANUBHAV, the ANUDAAN and SANKALP portals and the pension dashboard into the Bhavishya base. The e-HRMS 2.0 link for Form 6-A followed on 30 August 2024. On 23 September 2026 the site banner read Bhavishya 12.0.

Who is covered and who is outside

Bhavishya covers the central civil Ministries and Departments, their attached and subordinate offices, and the Central Armed Police Forces. It does not cover the Railways, Defence, Posts or Telecommunications, which were outside the address list of the 29 November 2016 Office Memorandum and have built their own systems.

The four parallel systems are named in paragraph 1.18 of the 120th Report of the Rajya Sabha Standing Committee on Personnel, Public Grievances, Law and Justice, presented on 8 December 2022: the Ministry of Defence after introducing the SPARSH portal, the Department of Telecommunications with the SAMPANN portal, the Railways with ARPAN software, and the Department of Posts with an SAP module.

The paramilitary forces are inside. The 17 March 2016 minutes named paramilitary Drawing and Disbursing Officers among those still to register, the Bhavishya FAQ applies its enhanced family pension clarification to all central civil departments and offices including the Central Armed Police Forces, and paragraph A of the 29 September 2025 Office Memorandum requires full adoption of the Employee Payroll System for Central Armed Police Forces personnel in the Ministry of Home Affairs.

The address lists have drifted. The 21 January 2021 Office Memorandum was still addressed to every Secretary except the Railways, Defence, Post and Telecommunications; the 24 March 2025 Office Memorandum was addressed to all Ministries and Departments with no exclusion stated. Nothing in the 2025 order moves the four departments onto Bhavishya, and the 2022 committee report records them on their own systems, so the practical boundary is unchanged.

Coverage has grown in every count published since 2023. The Head of Office manual of 16 July 2026 carries an undated live counter that reads 100 Ministries and Departments including Apex Bodies and Union Territories, 1,043 offices, 9,781 Drawing and Disbursing Officers and 3,31,823 orders.

Users and roles inside the system

Seven kinds of office act on a Bhavishya case, and the system gives each a separate login with fixed rights. The Bhavishya retiree user manual, last reviewed on 16 July 2026, lists the parties as the retiree or pensioner, the Drawing and Disbursing Officer, the Head of Office, the Head of Department, the Pay and Accounts Officer, the Directorate of Estates, the Central Pension Accounting Office and the pension-disbursing banks.

Registration is itself controlled. The Bhavishya registration FAQ requires the Drawing and Disbursing Officer, the Head of Office with a dealing hand, the Head of Department, and the Pay and Accounts Officer with a dealing hand to register online, and the Principal Chief Controller or Chief Controller of Accounts and the Ministry’s nodal officer to register by an emailed form. A gov.in or nic.in email address is mandatory, as it was in 2016. Two combinations are allowed in one person: Drawing and Disbursing Officer with Head of Office, and Head of Office with Pay and Accounts Officer.

The rights are not symmetric. A Head of Office login carries all Drawing and Disbursing Officer rights, but a Drawing and Disbursing Officer login does not carry Head of Office rights, according to the Bhavishya FAQ. Verification of service and preparation of Form 7 are Head of Office functions under Rules 57 and 59 of the CCS (Pension) Rules, 2021. The undated Operating Instructions for Drawing and Disbursing Officers, Heads of Office and Pay and Accounts Officers add that every Ministry must keep an active nodal officer monitoring its attached and subordinate offices, and paragraph F of the 29 September 2025 Office Memorandum fixes that officer’s rank at not below Joint Secretary or Director.

How a pension case moves through Bhavishya

A Bhavishya case passes through eight stages, set out in the Head of Office module manual dated 16 July 2026. The first four sit with the parent department, the fifth with the accounts organisation, and the last three with the Central Pension Accounting Office, the bank and DigiLocker.

1. Salary data. The Drawing and Disbursing Officer uploads the employee’s salary data every month, as an XML file or directly from the Employee Information System or the Public Financial Management System. A superannuating employee is registered automatically from it.
2. No Demand Certificate. The retiree applies online for the No Demand Certificate, and the Directorate of Estates, through eSampada, adds any licence fee or other accommodation dues.
3. Application. The retiree fills Form 6-A and submits it to the Head of Office with e-Sign or an ink signature.
4. Verification and forwarding. The Head of Office verifies the forms, uploads the service verification certificate, fills Form 7 and Format 10, generates the pension calculation sheet and forwards the case to the Pay and Accounts Officer.
5. Pension Payment Order. The Pay and Accounts Officer takes the case into the Public Financial Management System, applies the Rule 63 checks and issues the digitally signed order; the order number and payment details flow back into Bhavishya.
6. Special Seal Authority. The Central Pension Accounting Office, through its PARAS database, returns the Special Seal Authority number and the date of the first credit.
7. Bank. The disbursing bank reports the pension slip, Form 16 and life certificate status.
8. DigiLocker. The e-PPO is pushed to the pensioner’s DigiLocker.

Once the retiree submits the forms, the retiree cannot edit them; the Head of Office has to return them for correction, according to the Bhavishya FAQ. The same FAQ states that an action taken after its due date is allowed but the system will show the delay. That dated record is the practical form of the traceable responsibility the 2016 Office Memorandum promised.

The timelines Bhavishya tracks

Bhavishya enforces no timeline of its own; it tracks the due dates that Chapter X of the CCS (Pension) Rules, 2021 fixes for a retirement on superannuation, and records who met them. The retiree’s alert messages and the Ministry’s monthly reports both run off those dates.

Two dates in the table are outer limits. Rule 60(4) says the case shall be forwarded not later than four months before superannuation, and Rule 63(1)(a) says the order shall issue not later than two months in advance, so a case that moves faster is regular. The full stage-by-stage account, including the three stages of Rule 57 and the dues assessment under Rule 69, is in the pension sanction process and timeline article.

Press Information Bureau release 2275673 of 20 June 2026 reports performance against these dates in two figures: the average time to issue a Pension Payment Order was 64 days, and 73% of superannuation orders issued on time.

Form 6-A and the retiree’s part

The retiring employee’s only statutory act inside Bhavishya is Form 6-A, the single pension application due not later than six months before retirement under Rule 57(2)(a) of the CCS (Pension) Rules, 2021. Notification G.S.R. 410(E) dated 16 July 2024 introduced it by amending Rules 53, 57, 58, 59 and 60, and it came into force on 16 November 2024.

Form 6-A merged nine separate forms and formats: Form 6, Form 8, Form 4, Form 3, Form A of the Payment of Arrears of Pension (Nomination) Rules, 1983, Format 1, Format 9, the Fixed Medical Allowance option form and the Zero Option form. It therefore carries the family details for family pension, the nomination for the gratuity, the undertaking to the bank authorising recovery of an overpayment, the medical option, and the option for commutation of pension. Bhavishya generates the form from the data already entered, and the retiree submits it with a single e-Sign or an ink signature.

Where it is filed depends on the office. Press Information Bureau release 2049638 of 29 August 2024 announced the e-HRMS 2.0 link: a retiring employee whose office is on e-HRMS files Form 6-A there, but only in a superannuation case, and every other retiree files it in Bhavishya. The 24 March 2025 Office Memorandum made online filing exclusive, on Bhavishya or e-HRMS 2.0. More than 64,000 retiring officials had filed Form 6-A by June 2026, according to Press Information Bureau release 2275673.

The retiree’s other role is to monitor. The retiree manual states that login details arrive by SMS and email 12 to 15 months before retirement, that the first password is the date of birth and must be changed at first login, and that an email and SMS follow each action due and each action performed. That alert stream is the retiree’s evidence if a date passes: a case still showing with the Head of Office once fewer than four months remain before retirement has missed Rule 60(4).

Rule 57(3) covers a servant who cannot file. The spouse, or failing a spouse the family member eligible for family pension, may submit the forms where bodily or mental infirmity prevents the servant, and the gratuity nominee may do so where no family member is eligible; commutation then waits until the servant applies personally. The Operating Instructions also allow the Head of Office to fill the form on behalf of a retiree who cannot.

The e-PPO, the Special Seal Authority and DigiLocker

The Pension Payment Order that ends a Bhavishya case is electronic: the Pay and Accounts Officer generates it in the Public Financial Management System and signs it digitally, and the pensioner can download it from Bhavishya or receive it in DigiLocker.

Press Information Bureau release 1694799 of 3 February 2021, reporting a written Lok Sabha reply by the Minister of State, Dr Jitendra Singh, stated that DoPPW had integrated the electronic Pension Payment Order with DigiLocker, that the Central Pension Accounting Office transmits the e-PPO to the banks, and that the retiree gets SMS or email alerts at every stage. The Central Pension Accounting Office’s bank interface specification, the version dated 3 October 2020, records the Public Financial Management System pension module as linked with the Bhavishya software, the Pay and Accounts Officer as digitally signing both the data and the order, and the Special Seal Authority as a digitally signed PDF, with digitally signed XML sent from 1 November 2019.

The download has a condition. The Bhavishya FAQ states that the e-PPO can be downloaded for pension cases processed through Bhavishya in combination with the Public Financial Management System, from both the pensioner login and the Head of Office login, and the retiree manual carries a separate function to push the e-PPO into DigiLocker.

Once the order is sealed, Rule 63(4)(b) gives the Central Pension Accounting Office 21 days to issue the Special Seal Authority and send it to the bank. The pensioner’s life certificate and annual obligations then run through the bank and Jeevan Pramaan, and Bhavishya shows the life certificate status the bank reports.

Cases other than superannuation

Bhavishya handles every kind of central civil pension case, not only superannuation. The 21 January 2021 Office Memorandum directs that all types of pension cases be processed through it, and Press Information Bureau release 2275673 of 20 June 2026 reports that 69% of family pension orders in death-in-service cases issued within six months of the date of death.

The difference is registration. A superannuating employee is registered automatically from the monthly salary data, because the retirement date is known from the date of birth. A voluntary retirement, a retiring pension case, an invalid pension or a death in service is not predictable, so paragraphs 4 and 5 of the Operating Instructions require the Drawing and Disbursing Officer or Head of Office to enter the case in Bhavishya manually. Paragraph F(a) of the 29 September 2025 Office Memorandum requires nodal officers to monitor retirement other than superannuation alongside the superannuation cases.

The timelines for those cases run from the event. Rule 54(3) of the CCS (Pension) Rules, 2021 requires the Head of Office to tell the Accounts Officer within ten days of the retirement order; Rule 59(1) and Rule 60(4) give two months from the application to complete and forward the case; and Rule 63(1)(b) gives the Pay and Accounts Officer 45 days from receipt to issue the order. On a death in service, Chapter XI applies: Rule 74(1) gives one month from the claim to forward the family pension case, and Rule 75(1) requires provisional family pension within fifteen days of the claim.

National Pension System cases are a narrow exception. The Bhavishya FAQ states that only four types of case for an NPS subscriber can be processed in it, on a provisional basis: family pension, invalid pension, extraordinary pension and extraordinary family pension. The FAQ cites DoPPW Office Memorandum No. 38/41/06/P&PW(A) dated 5 May 2009 for them; the benefits now sit in the CCS (Implementation of National Pension System) Rules, 2021 and the Central Civil Services (Extraordinary Pension) Rules, 2023, which also govern disability pension. An ordinary NPS exit on superannuation is a withdrawal through the Central Recordkeeping Agency, not a Bhavishya sanction, and the Unified Pension Scheme has its own claim process.

Bhavishya compared with the other pension systems

Three systems carry a central civil pension case, and three more replace all of them in the excluded departments. Bhavishya belongs to DoPPW, the Public Financial Management System to the Controller General of Accounts, and PARAS to the Central Pension Accounting Office. The table sets out which does what.

The practical consequence is that tracking changes hands partway. Bhavishya shows the case while it sits with the Head of Office and the Pay and Accounts Officer; once the order is dispatched, the Central Pension Accounting Office’s Web Responsive Pensioners Service at cpao.nic.in shows its arrival and the Special Seal Authority. A pensioner whose grievance concerns the sanction goes to the Bhavishya record; one whose grievance concerns the credit goes to the Central Pension Accounting Office and the bank.

Bhavishya is also not the route for re-fixing an old pension. A revision of pension under Rule 66(1) after a pay commission, or after a court order, is issued as a Revised Pension Payment Authority, and a pensioner who retired before the system existed has no Bhavishya case to reopen.

Post-retirement services and the Integrated Pensioners’ Portal

After the order issues, Bhavishya becomes the pensioner’s record. The Bhavishya FAQ lists the e-PPO, the electronic Special Seal Authority, the monthly pension slip, Form 16, the due-and-drawn statement of pension arrears and the Digital Life Certificate status, each available after the order and the Special Seal Authority have issued.

Those services come through the Integrated Pensioners’ Portal, which DoPPW launched at Vigyan Bhawan on 18 October 2022 as Bhavishya version 9.0, built with the State Bank of India. It merged CPENGRAMS, ANUBHAV, ANUDAAN, SANKALP and the pension dashboard into the Bhavishya base, and Press Information Bureau release 2275673 of 20 June 2026 records it reaching the portals of 11 pension-disbursing banks through which about 92% of pensioners draw pension, a narrower set than the 21 banks authorised to disburse central civil pension under the Central Pension Accounting Office scheme.

Grievances run through CPENGRAMS. A Press Information Bureau release of 11 October 2011 recorded that the Pensioners’ Portal project had run since March 2007 with CPENGRAMS under it, and launched an updated version merged with the CPGRAMS database that day; the grievance system now shows as CPENGRAMS 5.0 at pgportal.gov.in/pension. The feedback platform ANUBHAV, launched in March 2015 according to the Pensioners’ Portal, is the platform on which a retiring employee records an account of the service.

Medical cover is the newest link. Ministry of Health and Family Welfare Office Memorandum F. No. S.11012/1/2024-EHS(8283407)/I/3881628/2026 dated 17 July 2026 allows a Central Government Health Scheme card to be generated through Bhavishya, with PAN as the unique identifier, after Head of Office verification, generation of the Pension Payment Order and payment of the contribution through BharatKosh. It is an additional mode: the CGHS portal route continues. The CGHS for pensioners article sets out the contribution and the card options.

Monitoring, nodal officers and the 2025 oversight committee

DoPPW monitors Bhavishya from above through nodal officers and, since 2025, a standing committee. DoPPW Office Memorandum No. 4/35/2024-P&PW(D)/10377 dated 29 September 2025, issued as comprehensive guidelines for timely payment of retirement dues and issue of Pension Payment Orders, is the current instrument.

Paragraph E of that Office Memorandum constitutes a High-Level Oversight Committee chaired by the Secretary (Pension), with the Controller General of Accounts, the Director General of CGHS, the Director General of the National Informatics Centre, the Principal Chief Controllers or Chief Controllers of Accounts of the Ministries of Home Affairs and Finance, and the Central Pension Accounting Office as members. It reviews pending cases bimonthly and issues monthly reports from Bhavishya data. Paragraph A requires full adoption of e-HRMS, paragraph F requires nodal officers not below Joint Secretary or Director, and training modules on Bhavishya are to be built on iGOT Karmayogi under Mission Karmayogi.

Paragraph D of the same Office Memorandum deals with vigilance clearance. It directs that no pension be delayed for want of vigilance clearance, and that clearance be issued within three months before retirement, because the validity of a vigilance clearance is three months. A clearance obtained earlier can lapse before the case is finalised.

Remedies when a Bhavishya case is delayed

A stalled Bhavishya case has two statutory remedies in the CCS (Pension) Rules, 2021 and one administrative route. The system’s contribution is evidence: every stage is dated, so the office that missed the rule-fixed date is on record.

Where the order will not issue by retirement, Rule 62 requires the Head of Office to sanction a provisional pension at 100% of the pension admissible on the verified service, from the day after retirement, with the gratuity released less 10%; Rule 62(10) makes it the responsibility of the Head of Office to ensure the provisional pension is sanctioned. DoPPW Office Memorandum F. No. 12(9)/2020-P&PW(C)-6450 dated 23 February 2022 restated that pension is not to be discontinued in any circumstances at the end of the six-month provisional period. The anticipatory pension article covers the older name for the same payment.

Where the delay is an administrative lapse, Rule 65 makes interest payable at the General Provident Fund rate on the delayed pension or gratuity, Rule 65(2) requires the Secretary of the administrative Ministry to record that the delay was caused by administrative lapse before interest is paid, and Rule 65(4) requires the Ministry to fix responsibility on the officials who caused it. The proviso to Rule 65(1) withdraws interest where the delay is traced to the servant’s own failure to follow the procedure, which in a Bhavishya case usually means a Form 6-A filed after the six-month date.

A grievance goes to CPENGRAMS through the Integrated Pensioners’ Portal, or to the Ministry’s nodal officer named under the 29 September 2025 Office Memorandum. A long-pending case can also be listed at a pension adalat. The retiree’s strongest document in any of these routes is the Bhavishya stage history, which shows which office held the case on the date the rule required it to move.

Common misconceptions about Bhavishya

Five statements about Bhavishya conflict with a rule or an order.

Bhavishya does not set the timelines. The due dates come from Chapter X of the CCS (Pension) Rules, 2021, and the 29 November 2016 Office Memorandum states that electronic processing is no ground for delay. A system outage does not move Rule 63(1)(a).

The retiree does not apply for pension after retiring. The case is sanctioned in advance: Form 6-A is due six months before retirement, and the order is due two months before. A retiree who waits for the last working day has already missed the one deadline that belongs to the employee.

Bhavishya is not a DoPPW pension payer. DoPPW makes the rules and runs the system; the Pay and Accounts Officer issues the order, the Central Pension Accounting Office seals it, and the bank pays. A delayed credit after the Special Seal Authority has issued is a bank matter.

Bhavishya is not for every central government pensioner. A railway, defence, postal or telecommunications pensioner will not find a case there, because those four departments process pensions on ARPAN, SPARSH, an SAP module and SAMPANN.

Form 6 is no longer the application. The notification of 16 July 2024 replaced Form 6 and eight other forms and formats with Form 6-A from 16 November 2024, and guidance that still asks for Form 6, Form 8 and a separate nomination predates it.

Related Articles

• Central government pension
• CCS (Pension) Rules, 2021
• Pension sanction process and timeline
• Pension Payment Order and life certificate
• Department of Pension and Pensioners’ Welfare
• Central Pension Accounting Office
• Pay and Accounts Office
• Drawing and Disbursing Officer
• Head of Office
• Public Financial Management System
• SAMPANN
• Provisional pension
• Anticipatory pension
• No Demand Certificate
• Directorate of Estates
• Vigilance clearance
• Family pension
• Commutation of pension
• Nomination for pension and gratuity
• Fixed medical allowance
• Gratuity for central government employees
• Qualifying service
• Superannuation
• Voluntary retirement
• Retiring pension
• Invalid pension
• Extraordinary pension
• Disability pension
• Revision of pension
• Pension arrears
• Old Pension Scheme
• National Pension System exit rules
• Unified Pension Scheme
• Central Government Health Scheme
• CGHS for pensioners
• Jeevan Pramaan
• Form 16
• CPENGRAMS
• e-HRMS
• Pension adalat
• Central Armed Police Forces
• Mission Karmayogi

External references

• Bhavishya, the online pension sanction and payment tracking system
• DoPPW Office Memorandum of 29 November 2016 on mandatory processing through Bhavishya
• Department of Pension and Pensioners’ Welfare
• Pensioners’ Portal
• Central Pension Accounting Office
• Press Information Bureau release 2275673, 20 June 2026
• Press Information Bureau release 104182, 24 February 2014

References

1. Central Civil Services (Pension) Rules, 2021, G.S.R. 868(E) dated 20 December 2021, Rule 3 (definition of Bhavishya), Rule 53 (processing through the online system), Rules 54 to 63 (Chapter X timelines), Rules 62 and 65 (provisional pension and interest), and Rules 74 and 75 (death in service).
2. Department of Pension and Pensioners’ Welfare Office Memorandum No. 55/14/2014/P&PW(C) Part-1 dated 29 November 2016, on mandatory processing of pension cases through Bhavishya with effect from 1 January 2017, paragraphs 2 to 5.
3. Department of Pension and Pensioners’ Welfare Office Memorandum No. 55/14/2014-P&PW(C)/Part I dated 21 January 2021, and Office Memorandum File No. 55/4/2014-PPW(C)(Vol.II)-part-I dated 24 March 2025, on processing all pension cases and Form 6-A through Bhavishya.
4. Notification G.S.R. 410(E) dated 16 July 2024, amending Rules 53, 57, 58, 59 and 60 of the CCS (Pension) Rules, 2021 to introduce Form 6-A, in force from 16 November 2024.
5. Department of Pension and Pensioners’ Welfare Office Memorandum No. 4/35/2024-P&PW(D)/10377 dated 29 September 2025, comprehensive guidelines for timely payment of retirement dues and issue of Pension Payment Orders, paragraphs A, D, E, F and G.
6. Press Information Bureau, Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions: release 104182 dated 24 February 2014 (launch in 15 Ministries); release 1694799 dated 3 February 2021 (e-PPO and DigiLocker); release 2049638 dated 29 August 2024 (Form 6-A through e-HRMS); release 2275673 dated 20 June 2026 (coverage and performance as on 19 June 2026).
7. Department of Pension and Pensioners’ Welfare, minutes of the Bhavishya review meeting held on 17 March 2016.
8. Rajya Sabha Department-related Parliamentary Standing Committee on Personnel, Public Grievances, Law and Justice, 120th Report, presented 8 December 2022, paragraph 1.18; and Lok Sabha Unstarred Question No. 3475 answered 22 March 2023.
9. Ministry of Health and Family Welfare Office Memorandum F. No. S.11012/1/2024-EHS(8283407)/I/3881628/2026 dated 17 July 2026, on generating CGHS cards through Bhavishya.
10. Bhavishya Head of Office module manual and retiree user manual, both last reviewed 16 July 2026; Bhavishya FAQ; Central Pension Accounting Office ePPO bank interface specification, PFMS version dated 3 October 2020.