{"id":466899,"date":"2026-05-25T23:42:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T23:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/466899\/"},"modified":"2026-05-25T23:42:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T23:42:09","slug":"punjab-pensioner-doctors-seek-release-of-pending-dues-npa-benefits-chandigarh-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/466899\/","title":{"rendered":"Punjab pensioner doctors seek release of pending dues, NPA benefits | Chandigarh News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/punjab-pensioner-doctors-seek-release-of-pending-dues-npa-benefits.jpg\" alt=\"Punjab pensioner doctors seek release of pending dues, NPA benefits\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/> Chandigarh: The Pensioner Doctors Association, Punjab (PDAP), has urged the state govt to resolve the pending issue of non-practising allowance (NPA) and release dues pending towards pensioners and employees.PDAP president Dr D C Sharma alleged that the Punjab govt was withholding around Rs 50,000 crore in dues related to implementation of the 2016 Pay Commission, pending DA\/DR instalments, pension revision anomalies for pre-2016 retirees and full pension benefits for several pensioners after 25 years of service.He said retired doctors also faced the unresolved issue of inclusion of NPA benefits.PDAP vice-president Dr D S Bhullar, who also coordinates the association&#8217;s retired medical and dental teachers&#8217; wing, alleged that the state govt had not fulfilled undertakings given before the high court in cases filed earlier by retired doctors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chandigarh: The Pensioner Doctors Association, Punjab (PDAP), has urged the state govt to resolve the pending issue of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":466900,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[201809,72,5972,5971,5973,5974,176,61,60,201806,201808,201807,174,175,201805,5975],"class_list":["post-466899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-personal-finance","tag-2016-pay-commission-implementation","tag-business","tag-chandigarh-latest-news","tag-chandigarh-news","tag-chandigarh-news-live","tag-chandigarh-news-today","tag-finance","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-non-practising-allowance","tag-pending-dues","tag-pensioner-doctors-association-punjab","tag-personal-finance","tag-personalfinance","tag-punjab-pensioner-doctors","tag-today-news-chandigarh"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=466899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466899\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/466900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=466899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=466899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=466899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}