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Opinion | When Will Centre Understand That India's Malnutrition Problem Is Real?
Uttar Pradesh tops the list in zero-food children. Madhya Pradesh allocates a meagre Rs 12 daily to tackle malnutrition. An elderly disabled woman crawls in Odisha to collect her pension and rations.
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Lifetime Pensions, Jobs To Families: Court In Gujarat Bridge Collapse Case
The Gujarat High Court asked the Oreva Group, the company responsible for the operation and maintenance of the Morbi bridge, to provide lifetime pensions to the elderly who lost their sons and jobs or stipends to their widows.
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Helpline For Elderly Receives Over 79,000 Calls Seeking Support
Over 79,000 calls, including those related to pension, Covid support and abuse, have been received by the national helpline for the elderly since October last year, according to official data.
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Banks Directed To Disburse Pension Expeditiously Amid COVID-19: Report
Minister of State for Personnel Jitendra Singh said on Friday that banks have been instructed to disburse pension expeditiously to ensure "ease of living" for the elderly amid the pandemic
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Elderly Be Provided Medicines, Masks, Sanitisers By States: Supreme Court
The Supreme Court on Tuesday directed that all eligible old age persons should be regularly paid pension and states should provide them necessary medicines, masks, sanitizers and other essential goods in wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Provide PPE, Face Masks To People In Old Age Homes: Supreme Court
The Supreme Court Tuesday said pension to elderly persons should be disbursed on time and those living in old age homes across the country be provided with personal protective equipment (PPE), sanitisers and face masks during the persisting COVID-19 pandemic.
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Odisha Woman Drags 100-Year-Old Mother On Cot To Bank For Paperwork
The elderly woman was forced to take on the arduous journey in scorching heat after the bank allegedly asked for physical verification of the 100-year-old beneficiary and refused to release the pension without it.
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Venezuela Elderly Feel "Sentenced To Euthanasia" Under Coronavirus Quarantine
Venezuelan retirees Carlos Blanco, 81, and Olga Rodriguez, 78, have for more than a year been unable to purchase the diabetes medication they need, as the country's hyperinflation has left their monthly pensions insufficient to buy even a loaf of bread.
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Tamil Nadu Sisters Who Lost Rs 45,000 In Note Ban Get Monthly Pension
The Tiruppur district administration has approved the release of monthly old-age pension for two elderly women who lost over Rs 45,000 to the demonetisation initiative in 2016.
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Rajasthan Government To Provide Wheat At Re 1 Per Kg To Poor
below-poverty line Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot Wednesday said the state government will provide wheat at Re 1 per kg to below-poverty line (BPL) and state BPL category people, pay Rs 2 per litre bonus on milk to farmers, open new 5,000 dairy booths and give pension to small and marginal elderly farmers.
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Huge Gaps In Implementation Of Old Age Pension Schemes: Supreme Court
The Supreme Court yesterday said that the National Social Assistance Programme (NSAP), which deals with pensions for elderly and other issues, was "prima facie" a good scheme but there were "huge gaps" in its implementation which needed to be filled.
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Amid Talk Of Early Polls, Telangana's KCR Showers Farmers With Cash Gifts
Will he won't he, is the big question on everyone's mind. A cabinet meeting prior to the massive public rally has heightened speculation of early elections in Telangana. Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao could announce decision to dissolve assembly and go for early elections, sources have told NDTV.
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Elderly Bengaluru Woman Gets Aadhaar Without Biometrics As Special Case
A 65-year-old Bengaluru woman, who lost her hands and vision due to leprosy, was enrolled for an Aadhaar card without the mandatory biometrics of her iris and fingerprints to restore her monthly welfare pension, her doctor said.
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New Pension Scheme Offers 'Respectable' Returns To Elders: Arun Jaitley
PMVVY is a pension scheme exclusively for senior citizens (aged 60 years and above) which is available from May 4, 2017 to May 3, 2018.
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New Pension Scheme With 8% Fixed Rate To Be Launched Today
The pension scheme can be purchased offline as well as online through Life Insurance Corporation (LIC) of India which has been given the sole privilege to operate this scheme.
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Opinion | When Will Centre Understand That India's Malnutrition Problem Is Real?
Uttar Pradesh tops the list in zero-food children. Madhya Pradesh allocates a meagre Rs 12 daily to tackle malnutrition. An elderly disabled woman crawls in Odisha to collect her pension and rations.
-
Lifetime Pensions, Jobs To Families: Court In Gujarat Bridge Collapse Case
The Gujarat High Court asked the Oreva Group, the company responsible for the operation and maintenance of the Morbi bridge, to provide lifetime pensions to the elderly who lost their sons and jobs or stipends to their widows.
-
Helpline For Elderly Receives Over 79,000 Calls Seeking Support
Over 79,000 calls, including those related to pension, Covid support and abuse, have been received by the national helpline for the elderly since October last year, according to official data.
-
Banks Directed To Disburse Pension Expeditiously Amid COVID-19: Report
Minister of State for Personnel Jitendra Singh said on Friday that banks have been instructed to disburse pension expeditiously to ensure "ease of living" for the elderly amid the pandemic
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Elderly Be Provided Medicines, Masks, Sanitisers By States: Supreme Court
The Supreme Court on Tuesday directed that all eligible old age persons should be regularly paid pension and states should provide them necessary medicines, masks, sanitizers and other essential goods in wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.
-
Provide PPE, Face Masks To People In Old Age Homes: Supreme Court
The Supreme Court Tuesday said pension to elderly persons should be disbursed on time and those living in old age homes across the country be provided with personal protective equipment (PPE), sanitisers and face masks during the persisting COVID-19 pandemic.
-
Odisha Woman Drags 100-Year-Old Mother On Cot To Bank For Paperwork
The elderly woman was forced to take on the arduous journey in scorching heat after the bank allegedly asked for physical verification of the 100-year-old beneficiary and refused to release the pension without it.
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Venezuela Elderly Feel "Sentenced To Euthanasia" Under Coronavirus Quarantine
Venezuelan retirees Carlos Blanco, 81, and Olga Rodriguez, 78, have for more than a year been unable to purchase the diabetes medication they need, as the country's hyperinflation has left their monthly pensions insufficient to buy even a loaf of bread.
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Tamil Nadu Sisters Who Lost Rs 45,000 In Note Ban Get Monthly Pension
The Tiruppur district administration has approved the release of monthly old-age pension for two elderly women who lost over Rs 45,000 to the demonetisation initiative in 2016.
-
Rajasthan Government To Provide Wheat At Re 1 Per Kg To Poor
below-poverty line Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot Wednesday said the state government will provide wheat at Re 1 per kg to below-poverty line (BPL) and state BPL category people, pay Rs 2 per litre bonus on milk to farmers, open new 5,000 dairy booths and give pension to small and marginal elderly farmers.
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Huge Gaps In Implementation Of Old Age Pension Schemes: Supreme Court
The Supreme Court yesterday said that the National Social Assistance Programme (NSAP), which deals with pensions for elderly and other issues, was "prima facie" a good scheme but there were "huge gaps" in its implementation which needed to be filled.
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Amid Talk Of Early Polls, Telangana's KCR Showers Farmers With Cash Gifts
Will he won't he, is the big question on everyone's mind. A cabinet meeting prior to the massive public rally has heightened speculation of early elections in Telangana. Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao could announce decision to dissolve assembly and go for early elections, sources have told NDTV.
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Elderly Bengaluru Woman Gets Aadhaar Without Biometrics As Special Case
A 65-year-old Bengaluru woman, who lost her hands and vision due to leprosy, was enrolled for an Aadhaar card without the mandatory biometrics of her iris and fingerprints to restore her monthly welfare pension, her doctor said.
-
New Pension Scheme Offers 'Respectable' Returns To Elders: Arun Jaitley
PMVVY is a pension scheme exclusively for senior citizens (aged 60 years and above) which is available from May 4, 2017 to May 3, 2018.
-
New Pension Scheme With 8% Fixed Rate To Be Launched Today
The pension scheme can be purchased offline as well as online through Life Insurance Corporation (LIC) of India which has been given the sole privilege to operate this scheme.
