New Delhi, Oct. 26 -- The Delhi government launched a door-to-door verification drive on Saturday to check whether beneficiaries receiving old-age pension are eligible for the scheme and whether they live at the registered address they provided.

The primary objective of this drive is to weed out ineligible beneficiaries of the old-age pension scheme that covers about 4.3 lakh senior citizens. The deceased, ineligible and duplicate entries will be eliminated. In this exercise, officials will visit beneficiaries' homes up to three times. Individuals not found during these three visits may face pension cancellation, subject to the applicable rules and regulations.

The survey, which started on Saturday, 24 October, aims to shortlist and ide...