Income Taxpayers Can't Join Atal Pension Yojna From October 1

The central government has amended the Atal Pension Yojana investment rules, barring income taxpayers from joining the scheme. Under the amended rules, an income taxpayer will not be eligible to open an Atal Pension Yojana account from October 1, 2022. A notification issued by the Department of Financial Services, Ministry of Finance, read, "Provided that from 1st October 2022, any citizen who is or has been an income-tax payer, shal...