Haryana Government has notified, “The Haryana State Shubhra Jyotsna Pension and other Facilities Scheme, 2018’, for providing monthly pension of Rs 10,000 to the residents of the state who participated actively during the period of emergency from June 25, 1975 to March 21, 1977 and faced imprisonment under MISA Act, 1971 and or Defence of India Act, 1962.
The policy would be made applicable from November 1, 2017, said a spokesman of General Administration Department.
Referring to the eligibility conditions of the scheme, he said that scheme would be applicable to residents of Haryana who participated actively and struggled during the period of emergency and faced imprisonment even for one day under the MISA Act, 1971 and or Defence of India Act, 1962.
The policy would also be applicable to widows of such persons. He or she must be a resident of Haryana and must have undergone imprisonment for any period during the emergency. He or she has to produce the jail certificate for the same issued by Jail Superintendent concerned and countersigned by District Magistrate. In case the person could not produce the jail certificate due to record being missing or being unavailable, he may produce certificate from two co- prisoners. Such certificate of co-prisoners must be authenticated by an MlA or MP of the concerned district, the spokesman said.
He said that the beneficiary emergency sufferers would have to open an Aadhaar linked saving bank account in any nationalized bank for transferring the amount of pension to their bank accounts and have to give a live certificate in the month of January every year, as is being followed in the case of other pensioners.
The spokesman said that the applications would be addressed to Chief Secretary. The Committees, already constituted under the chairmanship of respective deputy commissioners of all the districts, would examine fresh applications, as and when receive, and send their recommendations to the State Government whose decision would be final.
He further said that Chief Secretary would be competent authority to sanction the pension under the scheme on the recommendation of Deputy Commissioner concerned. The decision of the government would be considered as final.
He added that the pension is liable to be cancelled in case of conviction by the court on charges of moral turpitude or in case of providing false information or affidavit.