NEW DELHI: Jhamku Devi, 69, travelled 565km from her native village in Rajasthan’s Sadaran to Delhi for an event Tuesday that she hoped would settle the “dispute” over whether she was living or dead.
It’s been 21 months since her status in govt records inexplicably changed to “deceased”, cutting her off the list of beneficiaries of old-age pension. She continues to subsist on a meagre income rearing goats.
Before making the trip to Delhi, the widow had met govt officials in Rajasthan, pleaded with them, and produced papers to prove she was Jhamku Devi in flesh and blood. Nothing worked.
Hers is one of many instances in Rajasthan of people being denied pension because of erroneous entries in survival records.
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