Pensioners above 100 years of age drawing pension from Banks
GOVERNMENT OF INDIA
MINISTRY OF FINANCE
RAJYA SABHA
UNSTARRED QUESTION NO-1673
ANSWERED ON-04.08.2015
Pensioners above 100 years
1673 . Shri Ahmed Patel
Rajkumar Dhoot
a) whether it is a fact that five lakh pensioners above 100 years of age are drawing pension from Banks, if so, the details thereof; and
(b) whether Government has conducted any inquiry as to how this figure has surfaced and what action is being taken by Government in the matter?
ANSWER
THE MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF FINANCE
(SHRI JAYANT SINHA)
(a) & (b): No, Sir. The number of pensioners above 100 years of age drawing pension from Banks (PSBs) is 1774, details at Annex. The Department of Pension & Pensioners’ Welfare (DOPPW) in a meeting held on 12.06.2015 with the concerned stakeholders in which common deficiencies in the banks’ data regarding Date of Birth, Mobile number, address of pensioner, Aadhaar numbers and number of pensioners over the age of 100 years were discussed. Banks with large number of pensioners above 100 years of age and having large number of records without date of birth of pensioners, mobile and Aadhaar numbers were asked to launch special drives and update their database. The Central Pension Accounting Office (CPAO) has issued instructions to banks to accept self-certification regarding marriage, income and non-employment. The banks should share master data along with Aadhaar numbers with CPAO for reconciliation of records.
Annex referred to in reply to parts (a)of Rajya Sabha Unstarred Question No. 1673 for 04.08.2015 by Shri Ahmed Patel regarding Pensioners above 100 years
S.N. Bank Name No. of pensioners drawing pension from Banks above 100 years
1 STATE BANK OF INDIA -792
2 STATE BANK OF BIKANER & JAIPUR -57
3 STATE BANK OF HYDERABAD -1
4 STATE BANK OF MYSORE -23
5 STATE BANK OF PATIALA -43
6 STATE BANK OF TRAVANCORE -18
7 ALLAHABAD BANK -78
8 ANDHRA BANK -1
9 BANK OF BARODA -20
10 BANK OF INDIA -18
11 BANK OF MAHARASHTRA -2
12 CANARA BANK -12
13 CENTRAL BANK OF INDIA -563
14 CORPORATION BANK -0
15 DENA BANK -3
16 INDIAN BANK -14
17 INDIAN OVERSEAS BANK -0
18 ORIENTAL BANK OF COMMERCE -4
19 PUNJAB AND SIND BANK -1
20 PUNJAB NATIONAL BANK -75
21 SYNDICATE BANK -9
22 UCO BANK -32
23 UNION BANK OF INDIA -7
24 UNITED BANK OF INDIA -1
25 VIJAYA BANK -0
26 IDBI BANK LIMITED -0
27 BHARATIYA MAHILA BANK -0
Total -1774
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