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| After identification parade, pensioners must furnish certificates of being alive | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, May 1: The latest directive from the State finance department is proving to be an unending agony for thousands of pensions across Jammu and Kashmir.
As per the fresh guidelines every pension has to present himself/herself before the concerned treasury officer from where the pension is drawn to satisfy the State Government that the pensioner is still alive.
Ironically, this is not enough. After the 'identification parade' of the pension he/she must furnish a certificate from a gazette officer of the State Government that the said pensioner is alive.
This is causing huge hardships to the pensioners as the treasury officers across the State have advised the pensioners that their pension payments for the month of May 2012 will not be authorized unless this formality is completed before the end of this month.
Most of the pensioners are in old age and in a failing State of health. They are now forced to queue up before different treasuries to prove that they are alive and as if this embarrassment was not enough for the elder citizens, the pensioners must later beg before a gazette officer to issue a certificate in their favour that they are still alive.
It is strange that the same guidelines are being selectively applied to the poor state Government pensioners while former legislators drawing their pensions are not subjected to this guideline.
"I am walking with a stick and even then somebody must hold my hand. How would I stand in a queue to prove that I am alive? Even after being subjected to this ordeal, I must prostrate myself before some gazette officer who must take pity on me and issue a certificate that I am still alive", said an 80-year old pensioner living in Janipur area of the city.
In addition to old and unhealthy male pensioners the women pensioners who have crossed their prime and are living in old age have also not been exempted from this directive.
Asked what he would do in light of the fact that many pensioners drawing their dues from his treasury are well past the age of his grandfather, a treasury officer in the city said, "Well, these are the guidelines which we have to follow in letter and spirit". |
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