Honorable pension reduced half; released after poet's death

The government of Uttar Pradesh has changed Yash Bharti pensioners' rule. The income tax payers, government employees, pensioners shall not be eligible to obtain Yash Bharti benefits. Mere the residents of Uttar Pradesh shall be considered to be eligible for these benefits.

 The state government is intending to pay mere Rs 25000 per month to the honorable men now; while the amount was being paid earlier Rs 50000 per month. The pension shall not be sanctioned to the income tax payers, government employees and of any pensioners.

Yogi’s government has issued a notification 2018 with immediate effect regarding the reduce in the elites pension which was being paid Rs 50000 under the notification 2015 issued by earlier government.

The principal secretary, Sanskrti Vibhag, Mr Jitendra Kumar, has issued the notification for this purpose says: who are the resident of Uttar Pradesh and have worked here shall be considered under eligibility criterion of this pension.

The pensioners shall have to submit their lives certificate to the department.  In the chairmanship of director Sanskriti, a five members committee has been constituted to scrutinize the income of beneficiaries and it shall approve the pension.

The pension can be stopped without giving the so- cause notice to the beneficiaries. The pension shall be stopped in case if found the beneficiaries’ indulgence in crime of or sentence in criminal case.

The sole power has been conferred to revise the rule of notification the Chief Minister of state.

Yash Bharti pension payment began after the death of Gopal Das Neeraj, a Hindi Poet and lyricist

Padm Bhushan, Padm Shree, and Yash Bharti prestigious award achiever, Gopal Das Neeraj, who visited to Lucknow to meet with Chief Minister Yogi Aditya Nath for the purpose to get released the pension, shall now be paid after his death.

He visited the city on June 25 last month; met with and begged to the chief minister to release the pension to Yash Bharti felicitated persons. That the Yas Bharti pension Rs 50000 per month had begun during the tenure of Samajwadi party government was stopped in the BJP regime.

The BJP government contended that there were many ineligible persons taking this benefit; so an enquiry was to be set up.