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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Declared dead and denied food, pension -Piyush Srivastava

Declared dead and denied food, pension -Piyush Srivastava

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published Published on Oct 30, 2017   modified Modified on Oct 30, 2017
-The Telegraph

Lucknow: For 18 months since April last year, Phulwasi Devi and 34 other elderly residents of Pipariya village couldn't figure out why they hadn't been receiving their subsidised food grain or old-age pension.

It took them an 18km bus ride last Monday to find out, from the district social welfare department office, that they had all been marked "dead" in official records..

The 35 victims, who include 20 women and 30 Dalits, now accuse their panchayat chief Paras Nath Patel and panchayat secretary Ajay Chaurasiya of having plotted against them.

"We had last year refused their demand for a Rs 1,500 bribe from each of us to renew our ration cards and old-age pension, and had rebuked them," Phulwasi, 66, said.

Patel denies involvement in "any corruption" and blames a "conspiracy by my political rivals".

Hemand Kumar, district magistrate of Chandauli, 350km southeast of Lucknow, has after an initial probe asked the police to register a case against Patel and Chaurasiya under the Prevention of Corruption Act.

"A team made up of the district social welfare officer, basic education officer and district supply officer too is probing the case," he said.

All the 35 victims are entitled to 35kg of food grain per month at Rs 2 a kg of wheat and Rs 3 a kg of rice, and a monthly old-age pension of Rs 300.

Declaring people dead to rob them of their rights has been a longstanding racket in Uttar Pradesh.

Azamgarh resident Lal Bihari Tiwari, 62, had formed the Mritak Sangh (Association of the Dead) in 1998 and listed as its members 300 "dead people", who had allegedly been declared so by revenue and panchayat officials to help the mafia grab their land.

Tiwari, who had moved court in 1994 to prove he was alive and eventually won the case, is still battling in the high court to win back his five bighas that were grabbed by the mafia.

"I somehow proved that I was alive but many others fail to do so because they are uneducated and too poor to pay lawyers' fees," Tiwari told The Telegraph.

He reckons the number of the "alive dead" has increased in the state from about 500 in 1998 to 2,000.

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The Telegraph, 30 October, 2017, https://www.telegraphindia.com/india/declared-dead-and-denied-food-pension-181973


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