TIWN Sep 29, 2022
AGARTALA, Sep 29 (TIWN): As per “Vision Document” promise of the BJP of 2018, Tripura Finance Ministry has declared a major decision to increase the social pension of the beneficiaries to Rs. 2,000 which was earlier Rs. 700 in the Left Front Govt's time. From Durga puja month, the social pensioners are getting hiked pensions. Yesterday, BJP held a rally thanking the BJP Govt for that, but the Govt has so far remained muted over the stopped social pensions. Even now thousands of social pension beneficiaries remain deprived of social pensions.
After the BJP Govt assumed power in 2018 huge numbers of beneficiaries’ names were slashed from the pensioners’ list which included even eighty years old people.
However, Finance Minister cum Deputy CM Jishnu Debbarman said, “Tripura has merely 10 lakhs families and 3.81 lakhs people among them will be benefitted of social pensions. For that Rs. 654 Crores will be the expenditure. We were giving them already a hiked amount of Rs. 1,000 and now Rs. 2,000 will be given”.
Debbarman further said, “For the decision, our Govt has financial backing already… GST collection has also increased… Without financial backing a budget is a hollow budget”.
Controversy however still remains as thousands of people have been deprived of social pensions in Tripura after the BJP Govt had come to power. Although the Finance Dept said, after verification, all social pensions will be restored, but huge complaints are pending over slashed social pensions.
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