Dimapur, March 22 (EMN): The Dimapur District Pensioner’s Association (DDPA) has clarified that it has 7571 registered members.
In a press release issued on Thursday, the association stated the figure has been made public in order to ‘set right the assumption figure of Acaut’. This was in response to Acaut’s statement published in the local newspapers on Thursday.
“With regard to bogus beneficiaries, the DDPA would like to inform that every pensioners concern (sic) pension papers are processed by their concern department (sic) and forward it to Accountant General, Nagaland, for fixing the pension after which then it is finally submitted to respective concern treasury for drawal of their pension.
“The DDPA is just an association which have no role in the process of it. However the DDPA will be very glad to give moral support to the Acaut if they would further investigate into the issue,” it stated.
Citing a Nagaland government notification issued on December 22, 2017, the DDPA stated that delay in giving pensioners their due benefit as directed by said notification had forced the association to act ‘only as a facilitator.’ The members had the option to avail or not avail the service of the financial expert committee arranged by the DDPA, it stated.
The association questioned whether the senior treasury officer (STO) of Dimapur would ‘issue said form and prepare arrear for the pensioners for free.’ It also stated that even though the December 22, 2017 government notification had directed the department concerned to circulate it to all treasuries and sub-treasuries, the STO of Dimapur had to ‘collect the order’ only on March 14, 2018.
