Chandigarh, November 22, 2017: Haryana cabinet today formally approved the pension policy announced by the CM . The policy of providing a monthly pension of Rs.10, 000 to the accredited media persons of Haryana, both based at State headquarters of Chandigarh and at district level, above the age of 60 years with at least last five years accreditation, was approved by the State Cabinet, which met here today, under the chairmanship of Chief Minister, Mr. Manohar Lal.
While giving details of Pension Scheme for journalists, the spokesman said that the Cabinet approved to provide a monthly pension of Rs.10,000 to the accredited media persons of daily, evening, weekly, fortnightly, monthly newspapers, news agencies, Radio stations, news channels above the age of 60 years with at least 20 years of experience in the field of journalism. The media person should also have been accredited with State’s Information, Public Relations and Languages Department for at least last five years.
He said that the media person, getting pension or honorarium of any kind from any other State Government or news organisation would also be eligible. However, if an otherwise eligible media person was getting pension from any other State Government of an amount less than Rs.10,000 per month, the entitlement of pension under this scheme would be reduced by that amount. He clarified that in case of demise of beneficiary media person, the monthly pension will continue to be given to his or her spouse, as the case may be, in case he or she was not getting any salary, wages, pension or any other regular financial assistance from any organisation or the State Government.