Mumbai, June 17 -- The Maharashtra cabinet has decided to double the honorarium provided by the state government to those imprisoned during the Emergency in 1975.

The cabinet also decided to provide the honorarium to the spouses of the imprisoned persons, which means that the surviving spouses would be the beneficiaries of the pension benefits. These decisions have been approved under the revised "Gaurav Yojana," which aims to honour the contributions of individuals from Maharashtra.

Currently, an honorarium ranging from Rs 5,000 to Rs 10,000 is provided as a pension benefit to people imprisoned during the Emergency. As per the cabinet, the honorarium amount will be twofold.

The cabinet meeting chaired by Maharashtra Chief Minister Dev...