Chandigarh has not revised welfare pension since 2016: Tewari

Chandigarh has not revised welfare pension since 2016: Tewari

Bahadurjeet Singh/Chandigarh , March 11,2025

Senior Congress leader and Chandigarh MP Manish Tewari today disclosed that the administration of the Union Territory of Chandigarh had not revised the social welfare pensions since 2016. Nor had the UT administration sent any proposal to the centre for revision of the same, he added.

Disclosing this today, Tewari said he had raised the question in the parliament, about the number of beneficiaries of various welfare schemes and when had these pensions been revised.

To his surprise, the MP said, the union minister of Social Welfare revealed that the rates of Social Security Pensions viz. Old Age Pension, Widow Pension and Pension to disabled persons in UT Chandigarh were revised in 2016.

Similarly, the rates of Old Age Pension, Widow Pension and Disability Pension were revised in December 2017.

Tewari said, what is shocking is that the UT administration has not even sent any proposal for revising the social security pension in Chandigarh.

“It is unfortunate that the Chandigarh Administration has not sent any proposal to the Government of India to revise the pensions since 2011, 2012 and 2016 for different categories of pensions for the most vulnerable sections of society to bring it on par with Punjab and Haryana”, he said.