Himachal Women Pension: Providing Rs 1,500 monthly to women was among the 10 ‘guarantees’ given by the ruling Congress before the assembly elections in Himachal Pradesh. Where now the promise has been fulfilled.
Himachal Women Pension: Himachal Pradesh government issued a notification on Thursday to provide pension under ‘Indira Gandhi Pyari Brahmin Sukh Samman Nidhi Yojana’. The ruling Congress had promised to give Rs 1,500 per month to women in the age group of 18 to 59 years before the assembly elections, for non-fulfillment of which the state government was being criticized.
On March 4, Chief Minister Sukhwinder Singh Sukhu had announced that the state government would give Rs 1,500 per month to women, which would benefit more than five lakh women.
Who will not get the benefit?
According to the notification, income tax payers, female monks permanently residing in monasteries, family members of state and central government employees and pensioners of central and state governments, employees of Panchayati Raj institutions, local bodies and public sector undertakings. This amount will not be received.
Other categories excluded from the scope of pension include contractual employees, daily wage earners, part-time employees, ex-servicemen and their wives, Anganwadi workers and helpers, Asha workers, mid-day meal workers and beneficiaries of social security pension.
Promise fulfilled
Providing Rs 1,500 monthly to women was among the 10 ‘guarantees’ given by the ruling Congress before the assembly elections in Himachal Pradesh. Earlier, opposition leader Jairam Thakur had accused Sukhu of misleading women over non-implementation of pension.
