Chandigarh, March 12 -- Quoting a reply of the central government in Parliament, MP Manish Tewari on Tuesday said the Chandigarh Administration has not revised the social welfare pensions since 2016. The UT administration didn't send any proposal to the Centre for revision of the same, he said.

According to Tewari, he had raised the question in Parliament about the number of beneficiaries of various welfare schemes and when were these pensions revised. In its reply, the Union minister of social welfare revealed that the rates of social security pensions viz. old age, widow and disability pensions in Chandigarh were revised in 2016.

Similarly, the pensions provided by the Building and Other Construction Welfare Board, under labour depart...