CHANDIGARH, OCT 1
The Haryana Government has enhanced the social security pension for the people of the State by Rs. 200 per month.
While giving this information, Haryana Finance Minister, Capt. Abhimanyu said as per the instructions of the Chief Minister, Mr Manohar Lal, all the social security pensions have been enhanced by Rs. 200 per month. This enhancement would be effective from November, 2018. With this increase, the beneficiaries under all the social security pensions schemes will get the benefit of Rs. 207 crore annually.
The Finance Minister said that the present Government is moving forward in a fast pace towards fulfilling all its promises in the interest of the people of the state. In this series, by enhancing pension under various other categories including the elderly pension to Rs. 2000 per month, the present Government has fulfilled a big promise of the election manifesto today. So far these categories were getting monthly pension of Rs 1800. He said that from November 1, Widow and Destitute Women Pension, Disability pension, Ladli Social Security allowance, dwarf allowance and eunuchs allowance has also been increased from Rs. 1800 to Rs. 2000. He said that from now, the destitute children will get Rs. 1100 instead of Rs. 900 and children with disability who are not able to attend the school would get Rs. 1400 instead of Rs. 1200 earlier.
Capt. Abhimanyu said that at present, there are total 15,13,602 beneficiaries of old age pension, 6,73,629 beneficiaries of Widow and Destitute Women Pension and 1,53,789 beneficiaries of Disability pension scheme in Haryana. Similarly, beneficiaries under Ladli Social Security allowance are 33,907 and under destitute children allowance are 2,11,403 and 9800 beneficiaries under other categories, he added.
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