Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, May 29: Priya Sethi, National Executive Member (NEM) Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and former Minister has urged the authorities of the Social Welfare Department (SWD) to streamline and simplify the verification procedure for pension cases of old age, widow and other categories of people.
In a statement issued to media persons here, today, at party headquarters during attending Grievance Cell, Priya Sethi along with Ankush Mahajan convenor, Maha Sampark Abhiyaan said that providing pension to widows, old-age people and other categories is one of the basic and essential social security measure adopted for the sustenance and facilitation of the beneficiaries and as such it should be implemented on ground without any convenience to the targeted section of the society. She said that it is quite a harrowing experience especially for the elders (old age people) and the widows who have to run from pillar to post for getting their cases verified and it would not be wrong to state that for such people it is literally as also practically more than harassment.
The senior BJP leader said that the authorities dealing with the pension cases should be humane in their approach in word and deed.
She demanded that at least in case of old-age citizens above the age of 60 years the concerned authorities must visit personally their homes and verify their cases there on the spot.
Emphasizing that the hallmark of the Prime Minister, Narendra Modi led Government is public service and ease of living therefore it is the duty of one and all in the administration of this Union Territory to follow these principles in letter and spirit especially by the Social Welfare Department in dealing with the verification of the pension cases of widows, old-age persons and other beneficiaries. She rued that the present verification process in fact is not ensuring ease of living of the beneficiaries but is contradictory to that.
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