The Uttar Pradesh authorities’s outdated age pension scheme is reaching extra senior residents in Prayagraj, with over 1.74 lakh beneficiaries anticipated to be coated within the 2025-26 monetary yr, in response to the district social welfare division.
3,928 new beneficiaries from Prayagraj have been added this yr. (For illustration)
Based on information from the division, 1.74 lakh aged folks within the district are anticipated to profit from the scheme within the monetary yr 2025-26. This consists of over 3,928 new beneficiaries added this yr, district social welfare officer Pragya Pandey mentioned.
As compared, 1,44,576 folks availed of the scheme in 2024-25, up from 1,22,657 in 2023-24. The scheme is open to people aged 60 and above whose complete annual revenue is as much as ₹46,080 in rural areas and ₹56,460 in city areas. Beneficiaries obtain a month-to-month pension of ₹1,000, disbursed quarterly, with the funds transferred on to their financial institution accounts by means of a web based course of, she added.
Although the pension utility course of is on-line and switch of cash takes place instantly within the accounts of the beneficiaries, the aged need to queue up within the workplace of the social welfare division on the third flooring of Vikas Bhawan to resolve any points that crop up.
To deal with this, chief improvement officer (CDO) Harshika Singh has ordered the institution of a devoted aged public facility centre (Jan Suvidha Kendra) on the bottom flooring of Vikas Bhawan to supply simpler entry to senior residents.
“Seeing the hardship elderly people face in reaching the third floor, the CDO has ordered the creation of a ground-floor facility to resolve their issues conveniently,” mentioned Pandey.
Officers acknowledged that way of life modifications and the breakdown of joint household constructions usually go away aged residents with out sufficient household help. In response, the state authorities is working to create areas and providers to cut back isolation and enhance their high quality of life.
A well-equipped Senior Residents’ Care Centre is presently being developed on the Gymkhana Membership situated inside Chandrashekhar Azad Park in Prayagraj. The power is being constructed at a price of ₹2.5 crore, mentioned Dipendra Yadav, further municipal commissioner, Prayagraj. The aged will have the ability to spend high quality time there by paying the prescribed price, and they’re going to have the ability to avail of all services tailormade for them, Yadav mentioned.
The centre can even assist handle acute diseases by means of a complete package deal of providers, together with the early detection and therapy, deal with preventive interventions like grownup immunisation to cope with immunosenescence (age-related decline in immune system operate), promote physician-prescribed bodily exercise, guarantee really useful dietary consumption, improve purposeful independence by means of rehabilitative providers and assistive units, guarantee palliative and long-term healthcare providers, together with ache administration whereas selling psychological well being providers and rising well being consciousness, and so forth. There shall be preparations for indoor and out of doors video games. Massive-screen televisions shall be put in for his or her leisure. There can even be a library of non secular books on the centre in addition to an out of doors yoga centre, officers mentioned.