Old-age pensioners attaining age of 75 and above in the city will now get a monthly pension of `1,500 instead of existing `1,000.
Announcing the enhancement in monthly pension, social welfare minister Kiran Walia said that people in the age bracket of 60 and less than 75 years will continue to get `1,000 old-age pension monthly.
The city government currently pays old-age pension to around three lakh senior citizens in the city. To become eligible to get the pension, a senior citizen’s annual income should not exceed `60,000.
The decision to enhance the pension for people who have attained 75 years of age was decided at the first meeting of the recently constituted State Council for Senior Citizens. Ms Walia said government will soon constitute district senior citizens committees in all nine districts.
These committees will be headed by the deputy commissioners of the respective districts and its members will include deputy commissioner of police and a district welfare counsellor besides two nominated members from the senior citizens.