Jharkhand: Sarvajan Pension Beneficiaries Struggle Amidst Payment Delays

ETVBHARAT

People who depend on the Sarvajan Pension Scheme in Jharkhand share their frustration over delays in receiving their pension payments.

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00:00The beneficiaries of the Maya Samman Yojana scheme are in dire straits.

00:08But the government scheme, Sarvajan Pension, has not been able to pay its beneficiaries for the last three months.

00:20Today, we have come to know about the current situation of Sarvajan Pension.

00:28The beneficiaries are sitting here. Let's talk to them directly.

00:34What is your name?

00:36Bijola

00:38You were getting your pension earlier, right?

00:41You were getting your pension earlier, right?

00:44I haven't received it for the last three months.

00:46You haven't received it for the last three months? Since when?

00:48Since the last three months.

00:50I haven't received my pension.

00:55So, you haven't received your pension for the past three months, so how is your life?

01:00So, you haven't received your pension for the past three months, so how is your life?

01:01I have not received my pension for the last five years.

01:03I was supplied with food, and I have been living with my mother.

01:09I have not been able to sleep at night.

01:11I have been hit by the others.

01:16You have been hit by others?

01:19Who hit you?

01:21My aunt.

01:23The government has not been giving us money for the last 3 months. What do you want from the government?

01:38The government has not been giving us money for the last 3 months. What do you want from the government?

01:45The government has not been giving us money for the last 3 months. What do you want from the government?

01:50The government has not been giving us money for the last 3 months. What do you want from the government?

01:59The government has not been giving us money for the last 3 months. What do you want from the government?

02:19The government has not been giving us money for the last 3 months. What do you want from the government?

02:30The government has not been giving us money for the last 3 months. What do you want from the government?

02:40The government has not been giving us money for the last 3 months. What is your name? Parikumar Singh.

02:54The government has not been giving us money for the last 3 months. What do you want from the government?

03:04The government has not been giving us money for the last 3 months. What do you want from the government?

03:19Are you getting your pension now?

03:22I told you, I was getting it before, but not since a year.

03:26I told you, I don't get 5 kilos of rice, I don't get it.

03:30Since when is your pension suspended?

03:32My pension is suspended.

03:33I used to get 1000 rupees, but now I don't get it.

03:36Okay, so your pension is suspended?

03:38It's been suspended since a year.

03:40I work at someone else's house and make a living.

03:43Oh, you work at someone else's house?

03:45Yes, I do.

03:47I clean the house, wash the utensils, and eat.

03:50I don't have a husband, I don't have a child.

03:52My father lives at home.

03:54I'm a poor man, I don't have a mother or a father.

03:57My brother took everything from me.

04:01You took everything from your brother?

04:02Yes, I had a father, a mother and a father.

04:06So, what do you ask the government for now?

04:08I ask them to give me some money, I'll get 5 kilos of rice.

04:12The government is giving money to a lot of people in the Women's Welfare Scheme.

04:16What will you say to that?

04:17The government is giving money to a lot of women in the Women's Welfare Scheme.

04:20What will I ask from the government?

04:21That's what I'm asking for.

04:23Give me more money.

04:25I don't get it.

04:27Give me 5 kilos of rice, I'll get it.

04:29I don't get 5 kilos of rice.

04:31Give me 10 kilos of wheat.

04:36I don't get it.

04:38We were just telling you about the state of Sarvajan Pension.

04:45The people we spoke to, they were getting the money.

04:53But it's been closed for 3 months now.

04:55The local chief is also here.

04:57We want to know from him too.

04:59The government has brought the Women's Welfare Scheme.

05:01On the other hand, the people who were benefiting from the Sarvajan Pension Scheme,

05:05they are not getting it.

05:07It hurts me that the women who were benefiting from this,

05:12they are being given the Women's Welfare Scheme.

05:16It's a good thing.

05:17We are not opposing it.

05:19But in one house, 5 families are getting it.

05:21And this pension, widow pension, widow pension,

05:24and the disabled, whose families used to run their own,

05:28are having a lot of trouble.

05:30And as the chief, we sit in the panchayat.

05:33Every day, people come and ask for pension, widow pension,

05:36widow pension, for the disabled.

05:38And we keep writing to them,

05:41but nothing is happening.

05:43I will ask the government to start the pension of such poor people first,

05:47and then give them the Women's Welfare Scheme.

05:50It is seen that the beneficiaries we spoke to,

05:53who have not been getting money for 3 months,

05:55their situation has become very bad.

05:58What should the government do in this situation?

06:00On one hand, the beneficiaries of the Women's Welfare Scheme are struggling for money.

06:04On the other hand, the elderly, the elderly, the disabled,

06:07their situation has become very bad.

06:09What should the government do in such a situation?

06:11The government should first start the pension of these people,

06:16and then do the work of the Women's Welfare Scheme.

06:19Because this is how they are fed.

06:21And the chief is having a lot of trouble there.

06:24That's why I will say first that pension should be given.

06:28Now you have seen that no one in the house allows children to eat.

06:32They make it themselves and eat it.

06:34And their pension.

06:35In that situation, what happens to the chief,

06:37we do it in the panchayat,

06:39where there is sorrow and happiness.

06:40You are doing it on your own.

06:41On my own, with my personal expense,

06:44I give it to such people,

06:45I do the work of running the daily bread.

06:49So the situation is,

06:51for the time being, the Sharvajan Pension Scheme,

06:54those who have benefited from it,

06:56have not been paid a single rupee in the last three months.

06:59And this is the reason that their situation has become very bad.

07:03In such a situation, the representatives who are benefiting,

07:07are going to the representative's house,

07:09and are also complaining to them.

07:12In which the representative himself,

07:14with his own money,

07:16with his own payment,

07:18is helping him somewhere or the other.

07:20But the people who have benefited from this scheme,

07:27have not been getting any benefit for the last three months.

07:31In such a situation, the government,

07:33along with the Mother Respect Scheme,

07:35the Sharvajan Pension Scheme,

07:37which has been going on since the beginning,

07:39needs to be implemented as well.

07:41Because the beneficiaries of this,

07:43the beneficiaries of the Sharvajan Pension Scheme,

07:46their situation is slowly becoming worse.

07:49In such a situation,

07:51the beneficiaries of the government's scheme,

07:54are raising questions.

07:56Narendra Nishad, ITV Bharat. Thank you.

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