Overview
- Under the revised scheme, monthly payments will be credited to beneficiaries’ bank accounts by the 10th of each month starting in July.
- The pension hike applies to more than 1.09 crore elderly citizens, persons with disabilities and widowed women under Bihar’s Social Security Pension Scheme.
- RJD leader Tejashwi Prasad Yadav accused the government of copying his party’s earlier promise to raise pensions to ₹1,500 per month.
- The increase forms part of broader pre-election measures that include expanded MGNREGA sanction powers and higher Panchayati Raj allowances.
- Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s recent tour of Bihar featured the announcement of Rs5,736 crore in Siwan development projects that align with the state’s election-year agenda.