Lucknow, Dec. 5 -- : The Social Welfare Department has improved the National Old Age Pension Scheme to make pension payments more transparent and simple. Under the new system, eligible senior citizens will be identified and verified automatically through the family ID "One Family, One Identity" system.

This will ensure that pensions are credited directly to beneficiaries' bank accounts without delay. Minister of state for social welfare (Independent Charge), Asim Arun, said that chief minister Yogi Adityanath aims to ensure a respectable pension for every eligible person.

Additional chief secretary of the social welfare department, L Venkateshwar Lu, has instructed all divisional commissioners and district magistrates to implement the f...