About the Collaboration

The Pension Fund Regulatory and Development Authority (PFRDA) is the statutory body responsible for regulating and developing India’s pension sector. It oversees the National Pension System (NPS) and works to ensure secure, transparent, and sustainable retirement solutions for citizens, while promoting pension awareness, financial security, and long-term savings across the country.

The Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (IIT Kanpur) is one of India’s leading institutions for engineering, science, and innovation, with a strong focus on research, technology, and entrepreneurship. Through this collaboration, PFRDA and IIT Kanpur aim to foster meaningful innovation and strengthen India’s digital pension ecosystem by bridging regulatory vision with technological excellence.

Results

Problem Statement 1

Sr. No Proposal Name Organization Name
1 ePravesh — Streamlined National Pension System (NPS) Digital Onboarding Platform Nandhakrishnan
2 Finnate NPS Nexus: Turning NPS Onboarding into a Guided Insight-Led Digital Journey Centelon Technology Services Private Ltd
3 Next-Generation NPS Onboarding Architecture Aditya Veer Singh
4 NPS Direct: A Unified Zero-Friction Digital Onboarding Ecosystem Ritik kumar
5 RetireMint: A Smart Digital Platform for Seamless NPS Onboarding and Retirement Planning Shubhi Upadhyay
6 Seamless secure and human-centred NPS onboarding Veda Arvind

Problem Statement 2

Sr. No Proposal Name Organization Name
1 FutureYou - Making NPS Emotional Visible & Rewarding for India's Youth Aryajeet Jha
2 Gamified Pension Awareness Platform Sudharsun P
3 Pension Pathfinders – A Gamified NPS Engagement Platform YellowSense Technologies Pvt Ltd
4 PensionQuest – A Gamified NPS Awareness & Engagement Platform Shivam Raut
5 PensionQuest: Gamifying Financial Freedom for Young India Aayush Parab
6 Sanchay – A Gamified Pension Readiness Platform Jeet Bagdai

Problem Statement 3

Sr. No Proposal Name Organization Name
1 NPS CONSTELLATION Parashmani Datta
2 NPS FutureView – Multilingual Retirement Corpus & Pension Forecasting Revanth Sampatirao
3 Pension Buddy: A Gamified Multilingual Personalized NPS Engagement Platform Aadrila Technologies Private Limited
4 PensionSight - AI Powered Adaptive Retirement Intelligence Engine Dinesh R
5 Retirometer V - Retirement Corpus to Regular Pension Planning Vishweshwar mensumane
6 User-Friendly Predictive Retirement Planning Platform Pankaj Goyal

Problem Statement 4

Sr. No Proposal Name Organization Name
1 AI Chatbot for NPS Subscribers Brahmi Systems Pvt Ltd
2 AI-Driven Behavioral & Mental Wellbeing Platform for Financial Stability AATRANGI PRIVATE LIMITED
3 NPS Saathi: AI-Native Multilingual Copilot for Pension Ecosystem Ananya Biju
4 NPS Smart Retirement Coach – AI-Powered Multilingual Pension Assistant Shrihari Koushik
5 NPS Woice AI - Multilingual Voice & Chat Pension Assistant WIDEZO PRIVATE LIMITED
6 PBee : AI-Powered Multilingual NPS Voice Assistant PensionBox