Naidu For Social Security Pension To All Eligible Persons

Amaravati: Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu on Thursday directed the district collectors to initiate measures to see to it that all the eligible get the pension and weed out beneficiaries who are not qualified to get it.

Chairing the Collectors' conference on the concluding day, he said that physical verification should be conducted utilising the technical and hybrid systems to remove the ineligible persons from the list of the beneficiaries. Naidu also made it clear that irregularities in the issuance of Sadaram certificates to the differently abled should be totally avoided.

The District Collectors should examine whether the doctors who issue Sadaram certificates are rigidly following the guidelines of the Medical Board or not and if any doctor is found violating the norms while issuing such certificates action should be initiated against them immediately, the Chief Minister said.

Observing that the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee scheme is a boon for improving the basic amenities in rural areas, the Chief Minister told the district collectors to make use of the funds from the scheme in a proper way to provide all the necessary infrastructure in villages. If works are executed for 100 days funds will be released under material components which can be utilised to complete the works at a faster pace, he said.

Already Rs 2,000 crore has been released through the 15th Finance Commission for gram pan-chayats, Naidu announced that another Rs.1100 crore will soon be released. Nearly 80,000 km long rural roads are already existing, the Chief Minister said and told the collectors to take steps to interlink the major panchayat roads. Expressing satisfaction over the development of internal roads in rural areas in the State, the Chief Minister felt that it is the duty of the panchayats to provide basic amenities like CC roads, drains, street-lights, drinking water and toilets.