Raipur Municipal Corporation Speaker Sanjay Shrivastava on Wednesday called a joint meeting of all the corporators and RMC senior officials to review implementation of Social Security Pension schemes.
A discussion over long pending applications of the pension schemes and taking appropriate steps to dispose of the same was held during the meeting.RMC Assistant Commissioner (Revenue), Dr lavkush Singraul read out the terms and conditions described in the circulars issued by the Central and State Government related to the pension schemes.
Shrivastava asked the officials concerned to ensure that all the eligible beneficiaries should be benefitted under the pension schemes.
Suggestions were also invited from the gathering in this regard. Corporators including Sundar Jogi, Babul Yadav and Ghasiram Sahu from RMC zone-1 registered their complaint against the officials concerned for not presenting a single application, submitted by the residents of their respective wards, during RMC general meeting on July 11.
It was learnt that as many as 72 applications, submitted by the residents of zone-1 for the pension schemes between January and May, 2014, were ready but the concerned officer did not present the same in any of the general meeting.To this, Shrivastava expressed disappointment and asked Banswar to issue show-cause notice to the concerned officer. The concerned officer was asked to submit his reply in written in next three days. The speaker also instructed the zone commissioner to suspend the officer, if his reply was not found satisfactory.
He also asked Banswar to take up the task of disposing all 72 applications of his zone on priority basis. Further instructed all the zone commissioners to hold meetings with the corporators of their respective wards to ensure disposal of all the pending applications of the pension schemes.