India, July 2 -- A recent government survey has found large scale discrepancies in the registration of beneficiaries under the monthly pension scheme for women in distress, with nearly 60,000 of them found to be ineligible, according to officials aware of the matter.

In many of these cases, the beneficiaries were wrongly registered for pension for widows despite their husbands being alive, while some were women who had remarried after being widowed but did not get their names deleted from the list, the officials said.

During the citywide survey undertaken by the women and child development department in November 2024, the credentials of many beneficiaries were also not found, added the officials.

The government provides a monthly finan...