Even when the Central share for social security pensions has not been forthcoming and the State goes by means of a tricky monetary disaster, the State authorities will proceed to distribute social security pensions, together with arrears from 2021 January, to all eligible beneficiaries, a press release issued by Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan has stated.
The authorities allotted ₹750.78 crore for distribution of pensions to 50,20,611 beneficiaries in January and ₹7,53.13 crore in February
In order to make the Central share of National Social Assistance Programme (NSAP) obtainable to beneficiaries, steps have been taken to join the Sewana software program being utilized by the Panchayat division to the Public Financial Management System (PFMS) software program utility.
While throughout 2011-16, the UDF authorities spent ₹9,311.22 crore on social security pensions, the LDF authorities is spending greater than 3 times that quantity, at ₹30,054.64 crore. While the UDF authorities gave pensions to 34,43,414 beneficiaries, the quantity has grown to 49,85,861 beneficiaries below the LDF authorities.
The LDF authorities not simply paid off pension arrears of ₹1,473 crore accrued below the previous UDF authorities, all social security pensions have been hiked to ₹1,600 too, Mr. Vijayan claimed.
