press trust of india
New Delhi, Dec 29: A BJP member in the Lok Sabha Friday said millions of eligible beneficiaries were not receiving pension as their thumb impressions no longer matched what was stored in the Aadhaar data owing to old age. Sushil Kumar Singh raised the issue during Zero Hour and asked the Centre to consider the problem seriously and to resolve it. The issue has adversely affected the elderly and the specially-abled people, he said. In many cases, iris (part of the eye) also develops deformities, he said. Singh, who represents Aurangabad in Bihar, also demanded a criminal case against telecom operators
who received subsidy benefits meant for their subscribers. BJD chief whip in Lok Sabha Tathagata Satpathy supported him.