By Aires Rodrigues.
The current one lakh twenty thousand beneficiaries under the Dayanand Social Security Scheme have not received their monthly old age pension benefits since June this year.
The current one lakh twenty thousand beneficiaries under the Dayanand Social Security Scheme have not received their monthly old age pension benefits since June this year.
This sorry state of affairs augments very badly for a government which is squandering money where not necessary and announcing populist schemes without being able to pay timely benefits to those needy beneficiaries.
The Dayanand Social Security scheme was launched in 2001 as an initiative under “Freedom from Hunger” project. How does the Chief Minister justify this wanton neglect of the poorest section of the community.
Good governance is about financial accountability which the Goa Government does not seem to care about. Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar should ensure fiscal accountability at all cost by ensuring that wasteful expenditure is curbed and that the State exchequer does not reach a point of bankruptcy where even the poor are kept starving without their old age pension benefits.
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