Post
Aadhaar enabled JAM, thousands of pensioners are declared dead, affected off
lists and denied pension. And that’s simply the tip of the iceberg, say Nikhil
Shenoy and Vineet Bhambhu On
the morning of the first of July, 2016, as a national daily splashed the
headline of an editorial showing proof of pensioners UN agency were effectively
the “living dead” of Rajasthan, a suppressed voice of anguish found a platform
for being detected.
India News : Mazdoor Kisan Sakti Sangathan (MKSS)
The
eight pensioners had traveled to city to carry a conference within the hope of
creating the Rajasthan Government answer their complaints. And what was their
complaint? That their pensions had stopped between six to 9 months past and
nobody would tell them why. it had been only if activists from the Mazdoor
Kisan Sakti Sangathan (MKSS) visited their homes with a listing of names from
Government records that the pensioners received the stunning news that been
shown as verified however that they had formally been recorded as “dead”.
So,
beside MKSS, they set to gift proof of their existence before the national
media in city. And it grabbed the eye of these in power, from the secretariat
at Jaipur to the district headquarter. The Collector promptly came to the Panchayat
Samithi on the second of July despite it being a Sabbatum and a Government
vacation.
With
a transparent shift to the “JAM” because the mode of delivery for social sector
advantages across the country, the Rajasthan government took a choice to shift
pension payments from cash orders delivered reception through postmen, to banks
early last year. Stiff targets were set. punchayet officers were ironed into
service to pressure each single beneficiary into gap bank accounts.
Reminders
were sent on each order of payment, for the immediate ‘seeding’ of bank
accounts into that pensions would be paid. This meant 3 separate new needs
brought together: A checking account, joined (seeded) to a Bhamashah card (the
Vasundhara Raje Government’s flagship program of providing each house with one
identity), Associate in Nursingd an Aadhar variety. for several marginalised
folks and communities this was an almost not possible demand. Refusing to
acknowledge that a lot of had been excluded from this method, the flags of
success were unfurled by the govt. Claims were created that ten lakh “fake” pensioners had been weedless out
exploitation the new system of banking, saving the govt around five hundred
large integer rupees, annually.
What
come into being as one cold figure of ten lakhs became a lot of outlined throughout
the Jawaabdehi Dharna command from the first to twenty second of Gregorian
calendar month in Jaipur. throughout the pension Jan Sunwai, pensioners flocked
to the microphone to inform their tales of “stopped” pensions for no accessible
reason, and also the misery that it had been transfer upon their homes. Three lakh
pensioners were declared dead, another 1.7
lakhs stated to have been receiving duplicate pensions. the remainder were stopped
beneath a catch all capricious classification referred to as “other”.
Out
of the a hundred twenty five off pensioners, forty four were declared dead and
also the rest were declared to be receiving duplicate pensions. Some pensioners,
allegedly receiving duplicate pensions from the govt, had stopped receiving
pensions altogether whereas some others shown as receiving “duplicate” pensions
in Government records had of course kicked the bucket. immense discrepancies
within the Government information were exposed throughout this survey.
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