Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Dec 20: Integrated Social Security Scheme (ISSS) is a new hardship created for masses of J&K by the Government and death of an elderly man waiting in queue is an indication of struggle of aged people waiting to get themselves registered.
This was stated by chairman Media Coordination Committee of AAP in J&K, Dr. Nawab Nasir terming ISSS full of long formalities which a common man finds difficult to fulfil.
In a press conference, Dr. Nawab said that J&K UT is unlike other UTs or States as it is a region of tough topographic conditions and people here struggle hard to reach government offices to avail benefit of schemes.
He said that J&K Government has recently rolled out ISSS for providing financial aid and social security to aged citizens, widows, trans-genders and specially-abled people but the process devised for application under the scheme is based on a wide range of formalities.
Dr. Nawab said that in a shocking incident, an elderly man died while waiting in a queue to submit old age pension form in north Kashmir’s Bandipora district on Tuesday which shows that the aspirants have to face immense hardships and government is completely a mute spectator to it.
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