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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | 10,000 Elderly People From Across India Come Together to Demand a Universal Pension -Gaurav Vivek Bhatnagar

10,000 Elderly People From Across India Come Together to Demand a Universal Pension -Gaurav Vivek Bhatnagar

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published Published on Oct 1, 2018   modified Modified on Oct 1, 2018
-TheWire.in

Activists have argued that the purchasing power of the Rs 200 per month pension initiated in 2007 has already come down to Rs 93.

New Delhi:
On Sunday, about 10,000 elderly people from across the country came together at a Pension Parishad protest organised at Jantar Mantar in the capital demand universal pension rights for the elderly, single women, persons with disabilities, and other poor and vulnerable workers of the unorganised sector. This protest took place just two days after the release of the State of Pension Report, 2018, which had indicated how out of the 80 million elderly entitled to the government pension of Rs 200 per month, the amount was reaching just 22.3 million people. In addition, the report said, the purchasing power of this monthly pension has reduced to a meagre Rs 93.

The people gathered at Jantar Mantar were addressed by a number of prominent labour leaders, social activists and experts who expressed complete solidarity with their demand and urged the prime minister and the government to listen to the them in order to keep its four-year-old promise of bringing ‘achhe din’ for the poor.

Addressing the elderly people, who had come from states such as Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Bengal, Bihar, Jharkhand, Rajasthan and Maharashtra, noted social activist Aruna Roy said, “The time has come for the government to keep the promise they made to the vast mass of the poor before the 2014 elections.”

Nikhil Dey and Poornima Chikarmane from Pension Parishad also spoke during the meeting. The Pension Parishad, a network of more than a hundred groups and networks across 20 states in the country fighting for universal pension rights, had pointed out how 94% of the workforce in the unorganised sector pays a substantial part of indirect taxes and contributes to the nation’s economy but remains largely deprived of the retirement guarantees that their organised sector counterparts have.

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TheWire.in, 1 October, 2018, https://thewire.in/rights/universal-pension-protest-elderly


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