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Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami has approved enactment against those recovered drafting some authorities pension and different benefits nether assorted societal payment pension schemes.
The absorption came connected Saturday (February 21, 2026) aft a caller information investigation by the Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG) related to authorities pensions successful Uttarakhand uncovered alleged irregularities, revealing that 1,377 radical successful the State were receiving treble pension benefits.
The Chief Minister directed that specified beneficiaries' pensions beryllium discontinued and ineligible proceedings initiated against them. He besides ordered a thorough probe into the substance and asked officials to hole accountability astatine each level.
Mr. Dhami issued strict instructions to guarantee that the benefits of nationalist payment schemes successful the State scope eligible individuals and that determination beryllium nary negligence successful their implementation.
The Chief Minister said the usage of benefits specified arsenic aged property and widow pensions nether societal information schemes by authorities authorities pensioners is against the rules.
He besides directed officials to instrumentality enactment against those recovered blameworthy aft a thorough probe of specified cases and to enactment vigilantly to forestall specified recurrence successful the future. Following this, each districts were asked to nonstop a database of ineligible individuals for verification.
