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 Gujarat government failed to maintain a database of beneficiaries of centrally-sponsored schemes and more than 1,000 persons received benefits despite being ineligible, the Comptroller and Auditor ...

(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 ...

India spends only 0.04 per cent of its GDP on social security pension; several states add to the pension from their own funds Nepal, Bolivia and Botswana — with economies much smaller than India’s — ...

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 ...

Several crores of rupees were diverted from National Social Assistance Programme (NSAP) to fund campaigning programmes of different welfare schemes of the Ministry of Rural Development, revealed the ...

BHUBANESWAR: Opposing the Centre’s move to introduce direct benefit compliant system for disbursement of pension under the National Social Assistance Programme (NSAP), the State Government maintained ...

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 ...

See Zee Business Live TV Streaming Below: Irani said that under the first scheme `Indira Gandhi National Widow Pension Scheme`, pension is to be provided to the widows of Below Poverty Line (BPL) ...

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Tuesday said that the National Social Assistance Programme (NSAP), which deals with pensions for elderly and other issues, was "prima facie" a good scheme but there ...