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80, 000 old age pension cases pending in Jammu region


By Sunny Sangral 

GNS JAMMU, : Nearly 80,000 applications seeking pension under the Integrated Social Security Scheme (ISSS) are pending with the social welfare department in Jammu region, denying the financial assistance to the beneficiaries to be targeted under the scheme. 
ISSS covers aged, handicapped, widows and other poor sections of the society who have been brought under the scheme to allow them to live a life of dignity. The scheme is fully financed and sponsored by the state government. 
While the officials claim that scarcity of funds is delaying the approval of the pending cases, but sources said that corruption and embezzlement in the department has slowed down the process in entire state with the needy being the end sufferers. 
Under the scheme a meager amount of Rs 200 per month is being given to widows, destitute, divorces and old people, while Rs 400 is being paid to physically challenged persons. 
“Lack of coordination between the concerned district authorities and the officials of the nodal social welfare department has rendered the implementation of the ISSS in Jammu and Kashmir a total failure. 
He said that a committee is studying the whole issue and will release necessary funds towards the scheme”, Rana said. A senior official said that the failure of the higher authorities in the Social Welfare Department to dispose of the pending applications seeking pension under the ISSS substantiates allegations about the poor implementation of the welfare schemes. 
Similar is the situation in valley too”, sources said. Sources said taking serious note of the matter during the recently held Jammu District Development Board (DDB) meeting, 
Admitting the lapse, director social welfare, Jammu Mehmood Rana said, “Yes nearly 80,000 cases are pending with the department but we cannot do anything in absence of the funds. Now the committee formed by the Chief Minister will decide on the issue”. 
Chief Minister Omar Abdullah constituted a committee under Chief Secretary Madhav Lal to address the issue, but it is unlikely to provide any immediate respite to the people seeking pension under the scheme.

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