Hyderabad, April 19 -- In an unfortunate incident, around 150 pensioners from the Academic Association of the National Institute of Rural Development and Panchayati Raj (NIRDPR), who had come to address their grievances on Saturday, April 19, were prevented from entering the campus by the police.

The pensioners wanted to meet the chairman and members of the parliamentary standing committee on rural development and panchayati raj department to voice out concerns regarding the stoppage of the grant-in-aid to the NIRDPR this year.

However, left to stand outside the main gate in the scorching heat, one of the pensioners fell sick. He was admitted to a hospital and later discharged.

Later, the standing committee met the remaining pensioners...