PRAYAGRAJ, May 10 -- Not just the eligible, even the dead receive pension from the social welfare department!
At least this is what the findings from official records testify in Prayagraj division's four districts of Prayagraj, Pratapgarh, Fatehpur and Kaushambi.
In all, 10,843 pensioners under different social welfare schemes have been marked as dead or ineligible in the division's four districts, including 9,238 dead, besides 1,605 ineligible.
According to deputy director, department of social welfare, Prayagraj division, Sudhir Kumar, of the total ineligible or dead pensioners, a shocking 98% had passed away but continued to receive pension in their respective pension accounts.
"It is a fraud committed by office-bearers of the gram...
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