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Govt. criticised over old age pension

Staff Reporter

NEW DELHI: Bhartiya Patita Uddhar Sabha has criticised the Delhi Government's Social Welfare Department's stand that old age pension can be given only on the recommendation of the local MLA or Councillor.

The Sabha had written to Health Minister Yogananda Shastri to grant old age pension to sex workers of G B Road who are over 60 yearsThe Social Welfare Department in turn replied to the Sabha that old age pensions could be granted only on the recommendation of MLAs or Councillors.

Calling this stance "unfair and unjustified", Sabha president Khairati Lal Bhola said when the District Magistrate of Varanasi could grant permission to issue pension to 10 sex workers of Shivdaspur area in Varanasi, the authorities in Delhi should not face any problems. The Sabha had written to the authorities in Varanasi and also got pension granted to sex workers in the region without recommendations from MLAs or Councillors. "There is no provision which says that old age pension can be issued only on the recommendations."

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