{"id":20272,"date":"2012-05-18T14:03:01","date_gmt":"2012-05-18T08:33:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.in\/news\/?p=20272"},"modified":"2012-05-18T14:03:01","modified_gmt":"2012-05-18T08:33:01","slug":"rameshs-assurance-on-old-age-pension-reforms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/rameshs-assurance-on-old-age-pension-reforms","title":{"rendered":"Ramesh&#8217;s assurance on old age pension reforms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh assured delegation from the Pension Parishad that he will write to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and draw his attention to their demands.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The issues raised by the Pension Parishad should offer the government an opportunity to relook at the way Indira Gandhi National Old Age Pension Scheme is operating,&#8221; Ramesh said.<\/p>\n<p>He said that except in one or two states, pensioners did not get monthly payments but the dues got bunched once every few months. 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