The Government Pensioners Welfare Association held a meeting on Saturday at Vikas Bhawan under the chairmanship of former Divisional Commissioner R.S. Verma. Pensioners demanded restoration of previous discounts on rail fares for senior citizens, a 5% pension hike every five years, immediate payment of the increased Dearness Allowance (DA) withheld for...
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18 months during the COVID-19 pandemic, and the reinstatement of the old pension scheme. They also appealed to the Finance Minister to announce the establishment of an AIIMS in Prayagraj in the upcoming budget, considering the upcoming Kumbh Mela. The organization congratulated its members, Jayshree Shrivastava, Kiran Bala Pandey, and Amrita Shrivastava, for their international and national-level awards in literature, yoga, and social work respectively. The meeting was attended by Dr. P.K. Sinha, M. Sohan Rao, Dr. Sudha Prakash, Kamalakanta Pandey, Umesh Sharma, Dr. V.K. Shrivastava, R.D. Kushwaha, S.N. Shrivastava, Sadhu Sharan Upadhyay, Rajesh Yadav, Sarvesh Kumar Mishra, Sushil Shrivastava, Yogendra Pandey, Ishwar Lal, Vidhyadhar Tripathi, and Rajesh Shrivastava.