Hyderabad, Nov. 10 -- About 4.71 lakh Cheyutha pension beneficiaries have been removed from the registered list of 43,55,649 through facial recognition and Aadhaar-based biometric verification.

Since 2023, the Congress government has sanctioned pensions to 1,29,327 new beneficiaries, Newsmeter reported.

On November 8, an additional 4.5 lakh new beneficiaries were added to the list. Chief Minister Revanth Reddy rolled out the scheme at an event in Kodangal.

According to Society for Elimination of Rural Poverty (SERP) Director Divya Devarajan, officials conducted a door-to-door verification of pension beneficiaries and removed those found ineligible or deceased.

"Of the pensions removed, around 95 per cent belonged to deceased beneficia...