Peon's 11-year wait for pension: SC directs UP govt to fix system
New Delhi, Oct. 8 -- A peon's 11-year wait for pension has shaken up Uttar Pradesh's bureaucracy and judiciary, with the Supreme Court directing the state's chief secretary to put in place a mechanism to ensure that pension papers are not delayed "even by a day".
A bench of justices KV Viswanathan and Arun Palli, which also asked the Allahabad High Court to consider fast-tracking all pension cases, issued the directions after being confronted with the case of Jagdish Prasad Tripathi, who retired as a peon in 2016 after 32 years of unblemished service but was left without his legitimate retiral dues for nearly 11 years.
What happened to Tripathi, the bench said, was an "unfortunate calamity" that should not befall any other employee. It dire...
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