Two years of AP Govt achievements at a glance

The Government of India introduced National Social Assistance Programme (NSAP) w.e.f. 15.8.1995 with a view to support minimum needs of the poor destitutes having little or no regular means of subsistence from their own source of income or through financial support from their family members with National Old Age Pension scheme, later on introduced National Widow pension scheme and National Disabled pensions in 2008.

Government of Andhra Pradesh is sanctioning pensions under various categories like Old Age, Weavers, Widow and Disabled through various Departments. The Government of Andhra Pradesh decided to bring the disbursement of all pensions under one umbrella by transferring the widow pensions from Social Welfare Department and disabled pensions from Women Development, Child Welfare and Disabled Welfare Department to the Rural Development Department w.e.f. 1.4.2006. In addition to above three categories the Governmnet of Andhra Pradesh has introduced pensions to Weavers, Toddy Tappers and Pensions to ART patients. GoI is only providing assistance of Rs 327.48 crores for 11.41 lakh members.

The eligibility criteria as per the GoI and GoAP for sanction of pensions is as follows:

Category of pension	GoI	GoAP
Common to all categories	From BPL category	From BPL category (White Ration Card Holders), Local resident of the District and not covered under any other pension scheme
Old Age	age 60 years and above	65 years and above
		SHG members - 60 years and above, active participant in the group, payment of Rs.365/- per annum towards their contribution
Widow	age 40 – 79 years	No age limit (As per the marriage act 18 years and above)
Disabled	severe and multiple disabilities (80% and above degree of disability)	No age limit. Having 40% and above degree of disability.
Weavers		50 years and above
Toddy Tappers		50 years and above. Members of Toddy Co-operative Societies (TCS) or to an individual tapper under the Tree For Tappers (TFT) scheme and who have completed 50 years of age as on 1.2.2009.
ART pensions		No age limit. 6 months continuous treatment on ART (Anti Retroviral Therapy). Even already covered in any category of Social Security Pension scheme.

The live pensioners as on 2^nd June 2014 (after bifurcation of state) under various categories are as follows:

SN	District	OAP	Disabled	Widow	Total
1	Srikakulam	165326	32138	87217	284681
2	Vizianagaram	153855	36626	84410	274891
3	Visakhapatnam	163284	37801	114359	315444
4	East Godavari	238644	63037	144140	445821
5	West Godavari	194713	43549	86264	324526
6	Krishna	145623	44838	115686	306147
7	Guntur	192996	41413	107681	342090
8	Prakasam	186736	33171	82610	302517
9	Nellore	135553	30909	90042	256504
10	Chittoor	222810	44993	117695	385498
11	Cuddupah	142223	30781	65699	238703
12	Anantapur	241408	54061	105166	400635
13	Kurnool	171870	38031	113222	323123
AP Total		2355041	531348	1314191	4200580

The AP Government is committed to secure dignified life to all the poor and vulnerable, particularly the old and infirm and to support their minimum needs to bring happiness in their lives. In pursuit of this overarching goal, inspite of the challenging financial conditions, orders were issued vide G.O.Ms.No. 113 Dated: 19.06.2014 enhancing the Social Security Pension amount from Rs.200/- to Rs.1000/- per month to Old Age, Widow, Weavers, Toddy Tappers and AIDS patients and from Rs.500/- to Rs.1000/- per month to People With Disabilities (PWD) having 40% to 79% degree of disability and Rs.1500/- per month for PWDs having 80% and above degree of disability, and that the above enhanced scale of pension will come into effect from September, 2014, to be paid on 2nd October, 2014 and onwards.

After enhancement of pension to Rs 1000 per month , Government have decided to provide pensions to all eligible persons, duly eliminating the ineligible cases, and decided to invoke linkage of 100% Aadhaar authenticated disbursement from 2nd October 2014 and to launch a verification campaign in every Gram Panchayat / Municipal Ward from 19.09.2014 to 21.09.2014 through Gram Panchayat / Municipal /Corporation Committees. Government have also decided to ensure the 100% field level verification of eligibility of existing pensioners, and it is also to receive new applications for sanction of pensions.

16800 tabs along with bio-metric devices have been deployed among the pension disbursement officers enabling them make payment of pension amount to beneficiaries every month. Further IRIS devices have also been deployed from the month of October, 2015 onwards.

Grampanchayat, Municipal Ward & Municipal Corporation Division Pensions Committee (Including (1)BC, (1)SC and (1)ST in each committee, G.O.MS.No135

dt 17.09.2014

Mandal & Municipality Pensions Committee (Including (1)BC, (1)SC and (1) ST in each Committee)

District Pensions Committee:

1. District Minister (s) – Chairperson

2. District Collector – Member

3. Project Director, DRDA – Member Convener.

The Self Help Group Members, and Group Social Activists mentioned in the above Committees will be nominated by the concerned, District Minister (s) and the nomination process shall be completed immediately.

Role of Gram Panchayat / Ward Pension Committee:

This Committee shall collect GP-wise/Ward-wise printed pensioners details from MPDO/Municipal Commissioner and verify the pensioners details thoroughly for their eligibility, write the findings in appropriate box, sign and handover at MPDO’s /Municipal Commissioner’s Office. The verification of the eligibility of existing Pensioners shall be done on 19.09.14 and 20.09.14, and collection of applications for new pensions from the eligible poor people on 21.09.2014.

Role of Mandal / Municipal Pensions Committee:

This Committee shall receive the appeals, if any, from the pensioners identified as ineligible by the Gram Panchayat / Ward Committee and dispose them on merits. The Committee shall also scrutinise the new applications forwarded by the Gram Panchayat / Ward Pensions Committees, and after a thorough verification recommend/reject such applications. The recommended applications shall be uploaded by the MPDO/Municipal Commissioner through their logins.

Eligibility Criteria for determination of BPL households:

The fundamental criterion to get eligibility for pension being the Below Poverty Line (BPL) status, Government have decided to examine the following factors for exclusion and inclusion of pensions for effective implementation of the scheme:

Exclusion factors:

1. State/Central Government and PSU Employees

2. Government employee pensioners (including PSU, Central Govt etc)

3. Income tax payers

4. Land owners having more than 2.5 Acres of wet and 5 Acres Dry or both wet and dry together more than 5 Acres (except ST in scheduled areas in ITDAs)

5. Outsourced Employees

6. Private salaried (monthly salaried)

7. Owner of car

8. Freedom Fighter pension holders

Priority shall be given to:

1. ST households particularly PVTG Households in Agency areas

2. SC households

3. Practicing Artisans (Weavers, Toddy Tappers, Barbers, Washer men,Potters, Blacksmith, Carpenter, Cobbler, Animal herder, Village Artistes etc) and other Back ward Classes

4. Daily labourers (Daily wage labourers, Agricultural Labourers, Migrated labourers)

5. Nomadic Tribes having no permanent residence

6. Households with destitute/orphans

7. Households with Disabled

8. Households of Manual Scavengers

9. Other poor Households

Status of Pensions from October 2014

• Pensioners referred to GP Pension Committees in

In format I & II on 19.09.2014 : 43,17,384

• Pensioners verified by GP Committees and

entered in MPDO’s logins (-8884) : 43,08,500

• Pensioners found eligible by the GP Pension

Committee : 39,51,804

• Pensioners found ineligible and

recommended for deletion by the GP

Pension Committees : 3,56,696

• No. of pensioners SRDH Proposed for

re-verification among the 43,08,500 format – III : 3,93,312

• Pensioners found eligible by GP Pension

Committee in SRDH Re-verification

(G.O.Rt.No.1060, Dt 1.12.2014) : 3,46,577

• Pensioners found ineligible in SRDH

Proposed Re-verification by GP Pension

Committee : 42,808

• Net deletions recommended by GP Pension

Committees & SRDH : 3,99,504

• New Pensions sanctioned

(GO.MS.No. 140 Dt 25.10.2014) : 2,36,391

• Rollbacks sanctioned from Committee Proposed

Deletion (GO.MS.No.53 Dt 13.05.2015) : 81,721

• New Pensions Sanctioned

(GO.MS.No.66 Dt 30.06.2015) : 1,50,000

• New Pensions Sanctioned : 1,75,000
• Net Pensioners eligible for payment

as on February,16 : 42,89,170

• Amount to be release for February, 2016 Pensions

Payable in March , 2016 : 462.04 Crs

• Amount required Upto March 2016 : 462.04 Crs

NTR Bharosa Pensions as on 01.03 2016

District and Category wise Physical & Financial Releases for the month of February, 2016 payable in March, 2016

S.No	District	OAP	Weavers	Disabled >= 80	Disabled <80	Widow	Toddy tappers	ART Pensions	Total
1	Srikakulam	142570	4124	8129	23226	98986	661	2288	279984
2	Vizianagaram	120909	2304	15314	20854	93509	980	2408	256278
3	Visakhapatnam	148799	2319	12298	25558	125250	1063	3622	318909
4	East Godavari	228509	8495	25118	37269	174715	3285	5657	483048
5	West Godavari	186671	3275	25678	19132	105530	1974	3617	345877
6	Krishna	145204	5208	23160	23888	134682	2734	3633	338509
7	Guntur	187103	6461	20052	22839	129154	873	5361	371843
8	Prakasam	156265	6604	13413	19888	97265	164	4049	297648
9	Nellore	117096	4646	9063	21258	95495	978	2674	251210
10	Chittoor	203601	5656	17529	29104	134056	301	2341	392588
11	Kadapa	125307	8795	11095	21023	81229	55	1406	248910
12	Anantapur	203966	11282	17021	38732	117783	199	3184	392167
13	Kurnool	144847	3634	21081	18892	123340	161	244	312199
	Grand Total	2110847	72803	218951	321663	1510994	13428	40484	4289170

S.No	Category of Pension	No. of Pensions	Amount (Crs)
1	Old Age Pension	2110847	220.34
2	Widow	1511289	159.52
3	Disabled 40% to 79%	321663	34.38
	Disabled 80% and above	218951	34.82
4	Weavers	72803	7.56
5	Toddy Tappers	13428	1.39
6	ART Pensions	40484	4.05
Total		4289170	462.04

NTRB - General Rollback Sanctioned for the month of February, 2016

Sno	District	Oldage	Weavers	Disabled >80	Disabled <80	widow	Toddy toppers	Total
1	Srikakulam	23	0	1	3	20	0	47
2	Vizianagaram	0	0	2	1	1	0	4
3	Visakhapatnam	1	0	0	2	1	0	4
4	East Godavari	10	1	5	2	18	0	36
5	West Godavari	32	1	4	3	20	0	60
6	Krishna	28	0	6	5	25	0	64
7	Guntur	7	0	1	0	5	0	13
8	Prakasam	8	0	1	0	3	0	12
9	Nellore	17	0	2	9	14	1	42
10	Chittoor	21	0	1	2	19	2	43
11	Kadapa	36	4	6	9	25	0	80
12	Anantapur	56	1	8	14	34	0	113
13	Kurnool	39	1	10	8	35	0	93
	Total	278	8	47	58	220	3	611

District wise Spouse cases sanctioned for the month of February, 2016

Sno	District	No. of Spouse cases
1	Srikakulam	135
2	Vizianagaram	80
3	Visakhapatnam	49
4	East Godavari	227
5	West Godavari	121
6	Krishna	70
7	Guntur	131
8	Prakasam	116
9	Nellore	120
10	Chittoor	178
11	Kadapa	188
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