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Tyagis’ pension: panel told to expedite process

NEW DELHI: Union Home Minister P. Chidambaram said that he had urged the Committee, which is examining the pension applications of freedom fighters of Hyderabad Liberation Movement, to complete the exercise as early as possible.

Replying to a query by Congress MP from Nagarkurnool Manda Jagannath in Lok Sabha, he said the Committee, the third one constituted by the Centre, had been asked to quickly give its recommendations on the 4,000 cases which it was looking into. “They have promised to do their best. I believe in the last meeting, they were able to deal with about 400 cases,” he said adding that the committee consisted of very elderly, eminent and acknowledged freedom fighters.

The Minister said that based on the recommendations of the first two committees, about 10,500 people had been sanctioned pension.

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