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Relief at last
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Kolkata
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June 8
SHE toiled for years at a salary of Rs 25 per month. Now in her twilight years (if she is still alive, that is) she just might get justice.
Hers was a name that no one could recollect, but all of Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee Ministry were numbed into silence when an agenda note on a certain Bihari lady's petition to the Finance Department came up at the meeting today.
And much to everybody's relief her petition for regularisation of her post of a sweeper and grant of pension was accepted. She will now get a pension in the scale of a Group D employee of the State Government (which means a pension of about Rs 2,000 per month) from the time of her retirement in the early 90s.
The hapless woman's travails were traced to the shifting of Hura - a small place in Bihar - to Purulia district in West Bengal - in 1959. Along with the physical transfer, some human transfers also took place as she then found herself working for the Health Department of the West Bengal Government. Only there was no official recognition of her post, neither any regularisation of it till date. Her pleas went unheard, as did her formal petition made to the State Finance Department in 1992 for at least a pension.
The Cabinet considered the matter and unanimously passed the order for a pension entitling her to a sum, which perhaps she had not earned in her entire lifetime!
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