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Old-age pension beneficiaries eligible for new scheme for PRI ex-heads

CHANDIGARH:Former heads of the Panchayati Raj Institutions (PRIs), who are drawing old-age pension, would be eligible for the new pension scheme of the Khattar government to be launched in the run-up to the October Assembly elections.

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Pradeep Sharma
Tribune News Service 
Chandigarh, August 20

Former heads of the Panchayati Raj Institutions (PRIs), who are drawing old-age pension, would be eligible for the new pension scheme of the Khattar government to be launched in the run-up to the October Assembly elections.

Official sources clarified that the old-age pension beneficiaries would now be eligible for the new pension scheme while beneficiaries drawing any other pension would not be entitled to the pension.

Under the new pension scheme, 25,336 former sarpanches, former chairpersons and vice-chairpersons of zila parishads, and former chairpersons and vice-chairpersons of panchayat samitis are set to covered. As many as 24,262 former sarpanches, 75 former heads of zila parishads and 402 former heads of the panchayat samitis would be covered under the new pension scheme.

While the former chairpersons of zila parishads would be paid Rs 2,000 per month, the vice-chairpersons would get Rs 1,000. On the other hand, the chairpersons of the panchayat samitis would be paid Rs 1,500 with vice-chairpersons getting Rs 750 per month. The former sarpanches would be paid Rs 1,000.

The sources clarified that persons, who were elected after 1994, when the Haryana Panchayati Raj Act came into being would be entitled to get pension. Similarly, the elected heads, who had completed a tenure of two years and six months, would be eligible for the new scheme.

Meanwhile, the department intends to transfer the pension to the account of beneficiaries to check any malpractices in the disbursement of money.

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