Orissa: 46 years after hubby’s loss of life, girl, 91, to get pension | India Information
CUTTACK: The Orissa excessive court docket has directed the Kendrapada district collector to pay household pension to a 91-year-old widow whose husband, a college trainer, died 46 years in the past.
A single choose bench of Justice Biraja Prasanna Satapathy issued the course Wednesday within the case of Hara Sahoo, the spouse of Benudhar Sahoo, who was an assistant trainer at Ratnakar Center English College in Kasoti, when he died on August 26, 1977.
The widow had filed a number of representations for household pension earlier than the college in addition to mass training authorities within the district since 1991, however in useless.
Hara moved to HC on October 19, after the Kendrapada collector rejected her illustration for household pension, gratuity and different service advantages on August 21.
The state authorities had taken the stand that the lady was not eligible for household pension because it was launched after the loss of life of her husband. Nonetheless, Justice Satapathy granted the aid contemplating that although Benudhar died in 1977, in regular course he would have retired in 1983. He ordered the collector to launch the pension quantity inside two months “from the date of receipt of this order”.
“Hara Devi is now 91 and stays along with her solely son, a 60-year-old retired fisheries division worker, daughter-in-law and three grandsons at Palei Derakundi in Kendrapada,” mentioned her advocate.
Widow filed a number of representations for household pension earlier than the college in addition to mass training authorities within the district since 1991, however in useless
A single choose bench of Justice Biraja Prasanna Satapathy issued the course Wednesday within the case of Hara Sahoo, the spouse of Benudhar Sahoo, who was an assistant trainer at Ratnakar Center English College in Kasoti, when he died on August 26, 1977.
The widow had filed a number of representations for household pension earlier than the college in addition to mass training authorities within the district since 1991, however in useless.
Hara moved to HC on October 19, after the Kendrapada collector rejected her illustration for household pension, gratuity and different service advantages on August 21.
The state authorities had taken the stand that the lady was not eligible for household pension because it was launched after the loss of life of her husband. Nonetheless, Justice Satapathy granted the aid contemplating that although Benudhar died in 1977, in regular course he would have retired in 1983. He ordered the collector to launch the pension quantity inside two months “from the date of receipt of this order”.
“Hara Devi is now 91 and stays along with her solely son, a 60-year-old retired fisheries division worker, daughter-in-law and three grandsons at Palei Derakundi in Kendrapada,” mentioned her advocate.
Widow filed a number of representations for household pension earlier than the college in addition to mass training authorities within the district since 1991, however in useless
