‘Dark Diwali’ for hundreds of pensioners in State
   Date :14-Nov-2020

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It would be a ‘Dark Diwali’ for hundreds of pensioners who haven’t received any monthly pension since their retirement, 4 to 6 months ago, as their pension cases are stuck in State Bank of India (SBI), Bhopal, whereas, over 1 lakh pensioners have been deprived of their financial benefits owing to indifference of State Governments for the past 20 years.
Bharatiya Rajya Pensioners’ Mahasangh National General Secretary Virendra Namdev and Pragitsheel Pensioner Kalyan Sangh State President A N Shukla, Pensioner Association Chhattisgarh State President Yashwant Dewan and Bharatiya Rajya Pensioners’ Mahasangh Chhattisgarh State President JP Mishra have alleged that problems of pensioners are growing since all the government since past 20 years have ignored the problems of pensioners.
 
There are hundreds of pensioners who retired 4 to 6 months ago have not yet received pension just because there is a provision to send the first pension payment from bank for verification to SBI, Govindpura, Bhopal, which is the nodal bank for payment of pension from all the banks in MP and Chhattisgarh.
 
They are not interested in sorting out the cases from Chhattisgarh and they keep it pending for months whereas it was provisioned to establish the central pension processing cell in local bank, but the state government and bureaucracy aren’t worried about it.
 
They aren’t interested in removing the Section 49 of State Reorganization Act. State Government is showing reluctance to pay arrears of 32 months from sixth pay scale and 27 months of seventh pay scale and 5 per cent dearness allowances since July 18.