After three-year battle, Army veteran’s widow has her pension restored
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The household pension of Amaravathi Bai, widow of the late Ganesh Rao Bawle, who served within the Indian Army from 1948 to 1965, had been discontinued greater than three years in the past. It was lastly restored final month.
Though Ms. Bai was receiving the household pension on account of her ever since her husband’s dying in March 2006 from the K.R. Nagar department of the erstwhile State Bank of Mysore (SBM), it was stopped abruptly in July 2017 after the financial institution’s merger with the State Bank of India (SBI) following confusion over the notification of her identify within the Pension Payment Order of her late husband.
Ms. Bai, an octogenarian, was made to run from pillar to put up for the restoration of her household pension until VeKare Ex-Servicemen’s Trust (VKET), Mysuru, took up the case and intervened on her behalf.
“The wrongly denied family pension for well over three years, amounting to ₹5,97,584 for the period July 2017 to December 2020, was credited on December 28, 2020,” mentioned M.N. Subramani, president of VKET. The Hindu had carried a report on the widow’s battle within the version dated December 10, 2020.
Though Mr. Subramani acknowledged the financial institution’s swift response to the enchantment for resuming Ms. Bai’s household pension, he mentioned the widow had requested VKET to ask the financial institution’s Central Pension Processing Centre to credit score the cumulative curiosity and penalty for the denied/delayed cost of household pension from July 2017 until November 2020, as per the rules of the Reserve Bank of India. The matter might be taken up with the financial institution authorities, Mr. Subramani mentioned.
Medical allowance
He additionally mentioned that Ms. Bai had not been paid her fastened medical allowance (FMA) from the day her deceased husband and he or she grew to become entitled for it — December 1, 1997, and March 17, 2006.
“The present FMA per month is ₹1,000 and the total amount due to her as on December 31, 2020, is ₹83,028 since neither her deceased husband nor she had opted to become members of the Ex-Servicemen Contributory Health Scheme (ECHS) since the day it came into existence, as both of them lived in the remote village of Gawadgere in K.R. Nagar taluk,” he mentioned.
Mr. Subramani additionally mentioned VKET would assist the widow put up an utility on-line for membership within the ECHS and solely then may the Pension Disbursing Authority cease crediting the fastened medical allowance to her account.
