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title: "Some Of The Poorest In Chhattisgarh Cannot Get Pensions After Aadhaar Glitches"
description: "Due to failure of recognition by machine, 7 pensioners didn’t get their pension after introduction of biometric machine in Kardana village of Chhattisgarh.
Kardana village is situated in Sarguja distr..."
pubDate: 2017-04-25
author: Rethink Aadhaar
category: Uncategorized
originalUrl: https://rethinkaadhaar.in/blog/some-of-the-poorest-in-chhattisgarh-cannot-get-pensions-after-aadhaar-glitches
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Due to failure of recognition by machine, 7 pensioners didn’t get their pension after introduction of biometric machine in Kardana village of Chhattisgarh.
Kardana village is situated in Sarguja district of Chhattisgarh -- one of India's poorest districts. The villages is under Batauli block, around 60 km from district headquarter Ambikapur and 12 km from Batauli. The village is surrounded by hills and inhabited by Adivasis including Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Groups (PVTGs), of which there are 223 households and a population of 946. There are 195 pensioners living in the village, who get small pension amounts every month under categories of old age pension, widow pensions, disabilities pension.
There are no bank branches in village neither does it have mobile connectivity. For any nearest connectivity they have to go 9 km to Chiranga village across the hill.
To avail the pension scheme beneficiaries were told to open their account in Union Bank of India which has only one branch in district that too in Ambikapur 60 km from Kardana village.