Recently, a Parliamentary panel in its report highlighted that merely an amount of pension ranging from Rs 200 to Rs 500 for elderly, widows, and persons with a disability under the NSAP scheme is ...

The Centre has passed on to the states the onus of raising the pension paid to senior citizens, widows and the disabled under a national social security scheme, and of updating the list of ...

The government confirmed that senior citizens aged 60-79 years receive a monthly pension of Rs 200, while those aged 80 and above receive Rs 500 per month under the National Social Assistance ...

To help out folks who are registered as BPL (below the poverty line), , the government has set up five different pension programmes under the National Social Assistance Programme (NSAP). The NSAP is a ...

A civil society group has urged the government to update the pension amount and the list of beneficiaries as the budget allocations for a pension scheme for the elderly, physically disabled and widows ...

(MENAFN- Kashmir Observer) Srinagar- The Jammu and Kashmir Government has accorded sanction to the enhancement of the pension for elderly citizens, widows, disabled individuals, and transgender ...

A parliamentary panel has raised concerns over persistent delays in wage payments under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) and called for urgent reforms in the ...

The government plans to spend $165 million in 2024 to benefit 2.8 million equity cardholders from around 700,000 households, with disbursements set to commence next April. The Ministry of Social ...

Presenting the Union Budget 2023-24 on February 1, the Finance Minister, Nirmala Sitharaman, asserted that ‘since 2014, the central government has ensured a better quality of life, and a life of ...