Lucknow: The 32 lakh elderly people in Uttar Pradesh who have not received the first installment of old age pension till now, will definitely get their pension in their account by 31st July this month.
This claim has been made by the Social Welfare Department. Special arrangements have been made in the CDO office for those who are not getting pension due to the problem of Aadhar card verification and linking the NPCI account with the bank on the NPCI portal. According to sources, 52 lakh elderly people in all the districts of the state get old age pension, out of which pension has been sent to only 20 lakh beneficiaries till 15th June.
Officials claim that the first installment will be sent to the remaining beneficiaries by 31st July. It is being claimed that most of the remaining beneficiaries will be sent money in the next one week.
The government makes direct payments to the bank accounts of citizens for all kinds of benefits available to them at the national and state level. Instructions have been given to link the bank accounts of beneficiaries to the NPCI portal. Those beneficiaries whose bank accounts have not yet been linked to the NPCI portal can go to their bank branch and link their bank accounts to the NPCI portal by submitting Aadhaar, PAN card and an application form.
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New account will be opened in the postal department.
A counter has been opened in the CDO office under special arrangements. Employees of the Indian Post Payment and Pension section have been seated here. If the elderly people coming here are not able to get the Aadhaar verification or NPCI done from their bank, then the employees sitting in this room will help them and if needed, will open a new account in the post office fulfilling all the standards for pension so that pension can be sent to it. According to Social Welfare Officer Sunita Singh, Aadhaar verification and NPCI have to be done for old age pension. For getting NPCI done, the beneficiary has to go to the bank and put his thumb impression there.
In view of this problem, a counter has been made in a room on the ground floor of the CDO office. There are 62 thousand beneficiaries of old age pension in Lucknow. They were to be sent three thousand rupees each as the first installment on June 15, but this amount did not reach the accounts of most of them. Many beneficiaries are making rounds of the Social Welfare Office regarding this. It is being claimed that most of the remaining beneficiaries will be sent money under the scheme in the next one week.
