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The Telangana government’s ongoing liveness authentication workout nether the Cheyutha pension strategy has uncovered large irregularities successful the pension database, including pensions being disbursed successful the names of 40,751 deceased beneficiaries. The workout besides identified 13,913 beneficiaries who were either untraceable, had migrated oregon were nary longer funny successful receiving pensions.
Officials further recovered that 3,475 beneficiaries were residing successful different States portion continuing to gully pensions successful Telangana. More than 100 beneficiaries voluntarily informed authorities that they nary longer required pension benefits aft securing employment oregon different sources of income.
According to authoritative data, the verification process besides revealed Aadhaar-related issues successful the lawsuit of 11,184 beneficiaries, prompting the authorities to reappraisal their eligibility, peculiarly successful cases involving duplicate oregon aggregate Aadhaar cards. Authentication details could not beryllium captured successful the lawsuit of 27,776 beneficiaries.
The irregularities came to airy during the State government’s liveness authentication thrust launched to heighten transparency successful the implementation of the Cheyutha pension strategy and guarantee that benefits scope lone genuine beneficiaries.
As of June 21, 15,97,233 retired of the full of 19,04,239 pensioners receiving benefits done the Core Banking System (CBS) had completed the authentication process, taking the wide completion complaint to 83.88%. However, 3,07,006 beneficiaries are yet to implicit the process.
Mancherial and Mulugu districts emerged arsenic the apical performers, achieving 100% completion of the authentication exercise. Siddipet recorded a completion complaint of 97.16%, followed by Rajanna-Sircilla (96.81%), Jagtial (96.53%), Karimnagar (96.26%) and Yadadri-Bhuvanagiri (95.91%).
Rangareddy reported the lowest completion complaint astatine 53.92%, portion Medchal-Malkajgiri and Hyderabad recorded 60.50% and 63.36% respectively. Mahabubabad (71.58%), Komaram Bheem-Asifabad (70.69%) and Vikarabad (69.70%) besides lagged down successful completing the exercise.
As portion of the verification exercise, Rural Development section officials conducted door-to-door inspections crossed the State. The authorities has extended the deadline for completion of the authentication process by 1 week, portion officials are visiting the homes of bedridden aged persons, persons with disabilities and those suffering from illnesses to facilitate the exercise.
Meanwhile, the State authorities has sanctioned 2 lakh caller pensions and initiated the process of identifying eligible beneficiaries for inclusion nether the scheme.
