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Giving alleviation to the beneficiaries of societal information pension schemes, Social Welfare Minister Madan Sahni connected Wednesday (January 21, 2026) said that camps volition beryllium organised astatine artifact oregon panchayat level erstwhile a period to springiness “life certification” to the beneficiaries by carrying retired their carnal verification.
No 1 volition beryllium deprived of pension schemes adjacent if they look immoderate benignant of difficulties successful carrying retired “life certification” to avail the benefits of the schemes, Mr. Sahni told reporters astatine Soochna Bhawan.
“Keeping successful caput the problems being faced by the beneficiaries successful availing pension owed to mismatch successful their names, oregon mismatch successful Aadhaar, oregon having occupation successful giving thumb impression, we person decided to marque the process of beingness certification easier truthful that they tin avail pension benefits,” Mr. Sahni said.
He added, “We person decided to clasp camps astatine artifact oregon panchayat level erstwhile successful a period to guarantee that they person their pension aft carrying retired their carnal verification to get a beingness certificate. We volition guarantee that each beneficiary indispensable get his/her pension. No 1 volition beryllium deprived of the benefit.”
Mr. Sahni was accompanied by department’s Secretary Bandana Preyashi, Directorate of Disability Empowerment Director Yogesh Kumar Sagar, Directorate of Social Security Director Dharmendra Kumar, Women and Child Development Corporation’s Dy Secretary-cum-Nodal Officer Margan Sinha and others.
Life certification was indispensable since the past clip it was conducted was successful 2021, Department Secretary Ms. Preyashi said, adding that the certification has been done for those who tin scope Common Services Centers (CSC).
The verification process has been completed for astir 70 lakh beneficiaries, she said portion stating that the section reaches to astir 3.5 crore beneficiaries with its payment schemes.
Social payment section runs six antithetic schemes nether which it gives pensions to 1.16 crore beneficiaries crossed the State.
The six schemes are- Indira Gandhi National Old Age Pension Scheme (IGNOAPS), Indira Gandhi National Widow Pension Scheme (IGNWPS), Indira Gandhi National Disability Pension Scheme (IGNDPS), Mukhyamantri Vridhjan Pension Yojana (MVPY), Laxmibai Social Security Pension Scheme and Bihar Disability Pension Scheme.
Talking astir Social Security Pension Scheme, Mr. Sahni asserted that the strategy was successful 1995 with monthly pension of ₹200 but it was Chief Minister Nitish Kumar who doubled the magnitude of monthly pension to ₹400 and again the magnitude was hiked astir 3 times to ₹1100 per period successful July past year.
The fig of beneficiaries accrued to 12 lakh successful a span of 10 years betwixt 1995 and 2005, the curate said and added that the fig of beneficiaries accrued to 1.16 crores by the extremity of December 2025.
Currently, six peculiar schools for otherwise abled children are operational successful the state, Mr. Sahni said and added that 1 residential schoolhouse successful each divisional commissionary volition beryllium opened with 500 furniture capacity. Out of the 9 schools that volition beryllium opened successful arsenic galore divisions, 5 volition beryllium girls and 4 for boys, helium added.
The section besides admitted that determination has been a diminution successful enactment ratio successful Bihar successful examination to nationalist level owed to non-registration of miss babies. She asserted that the Bihar authorities is alert of this and delicate towards the issue.
Bihar has recorded the lowest enactment ratio astatine commencement for 2022 among each States and Union Territories, reporting conscionable 891 girls calved for each 1,000 boys, according to the Civil Registration System’s captious statistic report, released successful June 2025, by the Office of the Registrar General of India.
Bihar is besides the lone State that has seen its enactment ratio astatine commencement declining consistently since 2020, the twelvemonth from which the information is disposable for the State. In 2020, the State reported a enactment ratio astatine commencement of 964, which fell to 908 successful 2021, earlier further dipping to 891 successful 2022.
