Haryana: The Haryana government has made a separate annual budgetary provision of Rs 68.42 crore to provide patients suffering from Stage-3 and Stage-4 cancer in the state with a monthly pension of Rs 2,500. The decision follows an earlier announcement by Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar to grant monthly allowances to cancer patients.
In May this year, Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar, while meeting the families of cancer patients, assured them that the state would extend every possible help to them. He then had informed that the government would assist those patients whose family’s annual income is up to Rs 3 lakh,” a state government spokesperson said.
The Haryana government has decided that cancer patients will continue to get an additional monthly pension of Rs 2,500 even if they take advantage of other social security pensions or old age pension schemes, it said.
“The pension will be transferred directly to (the patients’) bank accounts through the Public Financial Management System (PFMS). To ensure that the actual beneficiaries get the scheme benefit, the income verification of such patients would be matched with Parivar Pehchan Patra (Family ID).
“The beneficiary will get the said benefits till they are alive,” it said.
The documents will be verified by a committee of the district’s Civil Surgeon’s Office.
Tripura was the first to offer succour
In terms of giving monthly pensions to cancer patients, Tripura was the only state in the country providing monthly financial assistance of Rs 1,000 to stage-III cancer patients.
