Over 4L Cheyutha pension beneficiaries deleted after verification

Since 2023, the Congress government has sanctioned pensions to 1,29,327 new beneficiaries, Newsmeter reported.

Hyderabad: About 4.71 lakh Cheyutha pension beneficiaries have been removed from the registered list of 43,55,649 through facial recognition and Aadhaar-based biometric verification.

Since 2023, the Congress government has sanctioned pensions to 1,29,327 new beneficiaries, Newsmeter reported.

On November 8, an additional 4.5 lakh new beneficiaries were added to the list. Chief Minister Revanth Reddy rolled out the scheme at an event in Kodangal.

According to Society for Elimination of Rural Poverty (SERP) Director Divya Devarajan, officials conducted a door-to-door verification of pension beneficiaries and removed those found ineligible or deceased.

“Of the pensions removed, around 95 per cent belonged to deceased beneficiaries, while the remaining five per cent were identified as government employees and removed from the list. No other eligible beneficiaries were removed,” she was quoted by Newsmeter.

In addition, retired employees receiving pensions through the Integrated Financial Management and Information System (IFMIS) were delisted. Officials of SERP, the Commissioner of Rural Development (CRD) and the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) found ineligible were also removed.

The Cheyutha pensions will cover eligible single women, widows, persons with disabilities, toddy tappers, weavers and filaria patients.