Shocking Odisha: No Empathy for 70-Year-Old Woman Forced To Walk Several Kms Under Scorching Heat To Collect Pension
A 70-year-old woman is trying to collect her old-age pension in Odisha’s Nabarangpur district. She travels barefoot on the road with a broken chair to collect her state pension. Surya Harijan woman from Banuaguda village in Jharigan district block, was the victim, news agency PTI reported.
The person in question is reportedly very poor. Her elder son is now working as a migrant laborer in another state. He stays with his younger son’s family because he makes a living by grazing other people’s cattle. The family has no land to plow and the family lives in a shack.
It previously held pension funds. But now system has changed, money sent to her account online.
However, her left thumb impression (LTI) sometimes does not match the sample, according to the banking authority, making it difficult to pay the pension.
Allegedly, for this reason or another, she did not receive her pension for the entire previous four months.
However, he really wants to go to the bank for physical presence. Be that as it may, the old woman is too weak to walk alone. She needs a chair to use it as a cane.
Once on the way to the bank, she fell and was helping herself with a broken chair. As a result, she suffered an orthopedic injury to one of her legs. From now on, he is having more problems with his walks. However, she did not lose her patience. She is making every effort to be personally present at the bank to deposit her LTI to release the pension funds.
