Union Minister Jitendra Singh to inaugurate all India pension adalat on Wednesday

New Delhi:

Union Minister Jitendra Singh will inaugurate an all-India pension adalat here on Wednesday, where chronic cases will be taken up and resolved, an official statement issued on Tuesday said.

Till date seven all-India pension adalats have been organised, in which 24,218 cases were taken up and 17,235 cases were resolved.

The pension adalat initiative was started on an experimental basis in 2017 by the Department of Pension and Pensioners’ Welfare. In 2018, national pension adalat was held by leveraging technology for the speedy resolution of pensioners’ grievances.