MoU: When Dairy and Rural ministries join hands indiancooperative.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from indiancooperative.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Panel flags Centre’s meagre pensions
Updated:
Updated:
Parliamentary Standing Committee on Rural Development slams government laxity in raising amounts.
Share Article
AAA
Parliamentary Standing Committee on Rural Development slams government laxity in raising amounts.
The Centre must increase the “meagre” pensions provided for poor senior citizens, widows and disabled people, said the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Rural Development in its report submitted to the Lok Sabha on Tuesday. The panel also slammed the government’s “laxity in raising the amount, pointing out that recommendations to increase the sums have been made for the last two years as well.
“The relevance of a marquee scheme like National Social Assistance Programme (NSAP) in reaching out to the poor and downtrodden section of the society does not go amiss in the eyes of the Committee,” said the report.