KADAPA, October 20, 2014
Updated: October 20, 2014 22:46 IST
CPI protest
The Communist Party of India (CPI) activists staged a demonstration at the Collectorate on Monday, seeking restoration of the cancelled old age, widow and physically challenged pensions to the eligible beneficiaries.
Though the State government had enhanced the pension amount from Rs. 200 to Rs. 1,000, it cancelled the benefits to nearly 30 to 40 per cent of the beneficiaries on the pretext of Aadhaar seeding, variation in age in Aadhaar card and ration card and other issues, CPI district secretary G. Eswaraiah said.
He demanded that pensions and provision of social security be sanctioned again to the eligible, without linking it to the ‘Janmabhoomi-Maa Vooru programme’.