Old Age Pension

Awaz Ho Buland: Old Age Pensions and Surviving the Pandemic

 
/ February 15, 2022

The ageing population of India is struggling to survive the pandemic as many have no active welfare schemes in their name. Some have also stopped receiving their monthly pensions ever since the pandemic began.

VV Correspondent Intervenes to Get 6500 Beneficiaries Their Pension, Benefits

 
/ November 22, 2021

The list includes other beneficiaries from the same taluka including differently abled people, widowed women and orphans.

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No Country For Old People| Fixing India’s pension Problems

 
/ December 3, 2019

In the third episode of Fixing India, watch how our heroes are fixing the pension problems in Kashmir, Maharashtra and Uttar Pradesh.

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How to survive India’s pensions I India Loud & Clear I Episode 1

 
/ July 30, 2019

What’s it’s like to be one of India’s 125 million elders and live your ageing days in extreme poverty?

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Pension Schemes Fail Village Elderly

 
/ January 12, 2018

An elderly woman in Jharkhand is forced to pick leaves and weave baskets for a measly income, despite being entitled to a monthly payment under the Indira Gandhi Old Age Pension Scheme.

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Rural Pensioners of India Get a Raw Deal

 
/ March 8, 2017

Indian society prides itself on respecting elders, but the old-age pension hardly translates that respect into help.