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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Utter Disgrace! Modi Sarkar Refuses Hike in Rs 200 Monthly Old Age Pension -Prabhat Patnaik

Utter Disgrace! Modi Sarkar Refuses Hike in Rs 200 Monthly Old Age Pension -Prabhat Patnaik

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published Published on Sep 4, 2021   modified Modified on Sep 4, 2021

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The government’s brazen class bias is crystal clear, as it gives away national assets built with public money to its favourite capitalists, together with tax breaks.

Junior Minister for Rural Development in the Central government, Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti, ruled out in Parliament any increase in the amount of monthly pension given by the Centre to the elderly under the National Social Assistance Programme (NSAP). The amount currently being given to each beneficiary under this programme is a princely sum of Rs 200 per month for persons between ages 60 and 79, and Rs 500 per month for persons of 80 years and above!

It is a shame and a disgrace that the Central government offers such an utterly paltry sum to aged citizens. What is more, this sum has not changed for years; it is not even inflation-indexed. State governments add a little bit to what the Centre offers, but this at best brings the amount to Rs 500 per month. This is about the maximum that an elderly person who is not on any institutional pension scheme receives in India by way of pension.

What is more, a large number of persons who should be receiving this amount do not even do so. In 2016-17, the total amount given as pension under the NSAP by the Central government was roughly Rs 5,900 crore which, at Rs 200 per month, works out to only 2.46 crore beneficiaries.

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Newsclick.in, 4 September, 2021, https://www.newsclick.in/Utter-Disgrace-Modi-Sarkar-Refuses-Hike-Rs-200-Monthly-Old-Age-Pension


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