Government should pay 18% of DA to pensioners immediately or be ready to face the consequences in the 2027 elections: Sharma
Pensioner class strongly condemns delay in pensions
Pensioners living outside Punjab deprived of government’s Rs 10 lakh health insurance scheme, says
Mohali, May 9:
After nearly four and a half years of the Aam Aadmi Party government led by Chief Minister Bhagwant Singh Mann coming to power by promising to immediately resolve the legitimate and future demands of pensioners and employees, all pensioners and employees of Punjab are forced to face hurdles at every step to resolve their demands.
During a press conference at Mohali Press Club today, Punjab Civil Secretariat Retired Officers Association President Shyam Lal Sharma said that at present, Punjab government pensioners are getting 18% less DA than the pensioners/employees of the Centre and its neighboring states. is being received. While the government has not yet released 18% DA of the pensioners from 01.07.2023 to 01.01.26.
He expressed regret and said that today the situation has become so bad that the pensioners have also received the pension of the month of April from the state government on 7th May, while most of the pensioners are still waiting for the pension. He said that the pensioners should not be forced to give digital life certificates.
Mr. Sharma further informed that during a case, the High Court had issued an interim order dated 08.04.2026 that the up-to-date DA should be given to the pensioners, family pensioners and employees of the Punjab Government before 30.06.2026. But on the hearing held on 5th May 2026, contrary to the decision of the Hon’ble Court, the Court categorically refused to stay this decision and upheld the decision.
Now the next hearing of this case is on 25th May 2026. On the other hand, the Punjab government is making false statements about paying Rs 14000 crore to pensioners/employees but the government has not been able to explain the amount paid so far. He said that the government’s term is ending in February 2027. It is deliberately delaying this issue and is working on a policy of delay and is not implementing the old pension scheme.
In response to a question, he called the 10 lakh health insurance scheme of the Punjab government a complete fraud for pensioners living outside Punjab including Chandigarh. He said that pensioners of Punjab who retired after serving for 30 to 40 years have been deprived of this scheme, which is completely unfair.
Finally, all the leaders of the association warned the Aam Aadmi Party’s Bhagwant Singh Mann government in Punjab that if the demands of pensioners and employees are not resolved immediately, it will have to face the consequences in the upcoming 2027 assembly elections.
Shri Manohar Singh Makkar, Amarjit Singh Walia, Uma Kant Tiwari, Sukhdev Singh, Asha Sood, Chandra Surekha, Jaswinder Kaur Batra, Avtar Singh Jodka, Krishan Pal Sharma, Raj Kumar Kalia, Jaspal Kaur, Surjit Kaur, Gurdeep Kaur, Dhanna Singh, Sanmukh Singh and Satnam Kaur were present at this meeting.