G.O.No.135
Guidelines on Pensioners Verification
with Aadhaar Details in AP
Guidelines on Verification of benificiers of Social Security
Pension with AADHAR details.
ORDER:
Government is committed to secure dignified life to all the
poor and vulnerable,
particularly the old and infirm and to support their minimum
needs to bring
happiness in their lives. In pursuit of this overarching
goal, inspite of the challenging
financial conditions, orders were issued in the reference
first read above enhancing
the Social Security Pension amount from Rs.200/- to
Rs.1000/- per month to Old Age,
Widow, Weavers, Toddy Tappers and AIDS patientsand from
Rs.500/- to Rs.1000/-per month
to People With Disabilities(PWD) having 40% to
79% degree of disability
and Rs.1500/- per month for PWDs having 80% and above degree
of disability, and
that the above enhanced scale of pension will come into
effect from September,
2014, to be paid on 2nd October, 2014 and onwards.
2. The Chief Executive Officer, Society for Eliminationof
Rural Poverty, A.P.,
Hyderabad vide the letter second read above has stated that
the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) in the
Performance Audit of Implementation of Social Security
Pension Schemes AP, 2013, identified that in respect of 32% of
beneficiaries, the age indicated in the ration card did not
match withthat of the one mentioned in the
acquittances/database; that 19% of beneficiaries stated that
their pension was sanctioned after multiple attempts; that
16% of beneficiaries stated that there were delays in
payment ofpension. The CAG recommended for cleansing the
pensioners database to bring in better targeting of the poor
and requested to issue necessary guidelines for verification of
pensioners with pension and Aadhar details with a view to
regulate the distribution of pensions in an effective manner.
3. Keeping in view the report of the CEO, SERP, and, the
observations made by the CAG in their report, Government have
decided to provide pensions to all eligible persons, duly
eliminating the ineligible cases, and decided to invoke linkage of
100% Aadhaar authenticated disbursement from 2nd October
2014 and to launch a verification campaign in every Gram
Panchayat / Municipal Ward from 19.09.2014 to 21.09.2014
through Gram Panchayat / Municipal /Corporation Committees.
4. The CEO, SERP shall communicate to the Districts the list
of GPs where there are disproportionate number of Pensioners
with respect to the population and the Dt Collectors will
nominate a Senior Officer to supervise the verification process to
weed out all the ineligible cases.
5. Government have also decided to ensure the 100% field
level verification of eligibility of existing pensioners, and it is
also to receive new applications for sanction of pensions.
6. To achieve the above objective goal, the following
procedure is prescribed:
Procedure for verification of eligibility of existing
pensioners and collection of application for new pensions:
Government have decided to set up Gram
Panchayat/Mandal/Municipality Pension Committees to conduct the process of
verification of existing pensions, and collection and
finalisation of the new pension applications as follows, with the
composition of members, mentioned hereunder:
The Gram Panchayat level Committee can scrutinize about 200
pensioners status per day. Therefore in 2 days 400pensioners can be
scrutinized. Therefore GPs having more than 400 pensioners need to have another
Committee. The
additional Committees to be appointed by the
DistrictPensions Committee with a Special Officer as the President and the
Village Revenue Officer/Teachers to function as the
Member-Convener. The nominated members remain the same as in the
GP Pensions Committee notified above.
Grampanchayat, Municipal Ward & Municipal Corporation
Division Pensions Committee (Including (1)BC, (1)SC and (1)ST in
each committee) and Mandal & Municipality Pensions
Committee (Including (1)BC, (1)SC and (1) ST in each Committee
Details are available in GO
District Pensions Committee:
1. District Minister (s) – Chairperson
2. District Collector – Member
3. Project Director, DRDA – Member Convener.
The Self Help Group Members, and Group Social Activists
mentioned in the above Committees will be nominated by the
concerned, District Minister (s) and the nomination process shall
be completed immediately.
Role of Gram Panchayat / Ward Pension Committee:
This Committee shall collect GP-wise/Ward-wise printed
pensioners details from MPDO/Municipal Commissioner and verify
the pensioners details thoroughly for their eligibility, write
the findings in appropriate box, sign and handover at MPDO’s
/Municipal Commissioner’s Office. The verification of the
eligibility of existing Pensioners shall be done on 19.09.14 and
20.09.14, and collection of applications for new pensions
from the eligible poor people on 21.09.2014.
Role of Mandal / Municipal Pensions Committee:
This Committee shall receive the appeals, if any, from the
pensioners identified as ineligible by the Gram Panchayat /
Ward Committee and dispose them on merits. The Committee
shall also scrutinise the new applications forwarded by the
Gram Panchayat / Ward Pensions Committees, and after a
thorough verification recommend/reject such applications. The
recommended applications shall be uploaded by the
MPDO/Municipal Commissioner through their logins.
Proposed process of verification of eligibility of
pensioners:
PD, DRDA shall download the mandal-wise, and the GP-wise
Aadhaar seeded data from SSP website and handover the
printed copies to MPDOs / Municipal Commissioners concerned
for onward distribution to Gram Panchayats / Wards on or
before 18.9.2014 for field verification. MPDO / Municipal
Commissioner shall organise Mandal / Municipality level meeting
with all members of Mandal / Municipal Pensions Committee
and Gram Panchayat / Ward Pensions Committees
immediately and explain the process of verification and
collection of applications from eligible poor persons for new
pensions. MPDO/Municipal Commissioner shall collect GP/Ward
wise filled- in, and the signed verification reports after
completion of the verification process and enter the
findings in their Logins on 21.09.14 and 22.09.14 and preserve the
reports. Similarly they shall enter the eligible applications
for new pensions on 22.09.14 and 23.09.14.
Eligibility Criteriafor determination of BPL households:
The fundamental criterion to get eligibility for pension
being the Below Poverty Line (BPL) status, Government have
decided to examine the following factors for exclusion and
inclusion of pensions for effective implementation of the
scheme:
Exclusion factors:
1. State/Central Government and PSU Employees
2. Government employee pensioners (including PSU, Central
Govt etc)
3. Income tax payers
4. Land owners having more than 2.5 Acres of wet and 5 Acres
Dry or both wet and dry together more than 5 Acres (except
ST in scheduled areas in ITDAs)
5. Outsourced Employees
6. Private salaried (monthly salaried)
7. Owner of car 8. Freedom Fighter pension holders
Priority shall be given to:
1. ST households particularly PVTG Households in Agency
areas
2. SC households
3. Practicing Artisans (Weavers, Toddy Tappers, Barbers,
Washer men, Potters, Blacksmith, Carpenter, Cobbler, Animal
herder, Village Artistes etc) and other Back ward Classes
4. Daily labourers (Daily wage labourers, Agricultural
Labourers, Migrated labourers)
5. Nomadic Tribes having no permanent residence
6. Households with destitute/orphans
7. Households with Disabled
8. Households of Manual Scavengers
9. Other poor Households
The GP/Ward level Committee will first apply the exclusion
factors and eliminate all the households in their Gram
Panchayat that fall within that ambit and then apply the
priority list to arrive at the eligible households. From this list of
households, the existing pensioners shall be scrutinized and
fresh applications be considered.
“Pensions Mahotsavalu”with Health Camps, Veterinary Camps
and dissemination of Government Flagship programmes and
5 Campaigns Government have decided that the “Pension
Mahotsavalu” shall be launched on 02.10.2014 in the entire State and the
celebrations shall continue till Diwali Oct 23rd 2014. The
Pensions Mahotsavalu shall be accompanied by the Health camps
and Veterinary camps at Cluster level organized in a
befitting manner by the Health Medical and Family Welfare
Department, and the Animal Husbandry Department
respectively. The Mahotsavalu shall also be used for disseminating
information to the Public on the five campaigns in
Sanitation particularly on construction and usage of Individual Sanitary
Latrines (Details on Campaigns will be issued separately).
7. The Chief Executive Officer, Society for Elimination of
Rural Poverty, A.P., Hyderabad shall monitor the scheme as per
the above guidelines to ensure it’s effective
implementation.
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