To demand that the State government increase monthly pension under old age, widow, Devadasi and disabled schemes, several beneficiaries, most of them women, sent ₹ 500 back to the government when they received it through money order in Raichur on Friday.
Members of the Rashtriya Pension Parishat and several beneficiaries were standing in a queue at a post office branch in the city to send back the pension amount of ₹ 500 to government.
They said that the monthly pension amount received by them is very little. Their demand to increase pension from ₹ 500 to ₹ 2,000 per month remained unattended due to the negligence of the government.
Monthly pension for the beneficiaries in other States had been increased at a time when the salary of government servants was increased. But, the State government has still not shown interest in adopting such a move here, they said. Abhaya, Sharanappa Hanumamma, Lachhamma, Durgamma and others were present.
