After the massive exposure of the Election Commission in Bihar obviously with the hand in glove clandestine support of the ruling political dispensation of the state led by the fourth term CM Nitish Kumar regarding the manipulation in the voting process and various discrepancies detected by a senior journalist resulting in the making of massive number of fake voters etc to influence and manipulate the elections as exposed by he AAA Media channel and subsequent registration of an FIR against the senior journalist Ajit Anjum , the Bihar chief minister has in order to impress and influence the journalists of Bihar in view of the state elections have allegedly tried to grease the palm of the state journalists by increasing the monthly pension.
The Bihar chief minister has just before the Bihar elections announced this huge gift to Bihar state journalists by increasing their pension which was wasn’t expected earlier.
In an announcement on X the Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar has said that I am pleased to announce that the concerned departments has been issued directives to deliver Rs. 15000 as monthly pension to Bihar journalists instead of Rs. 6 thousand from now onwards under the ongoing Bihar Patrakar Sammaan Pension Yojana.
Also, in case of death of journalists receiving pension under Bihar Journalist Samman Pension Scheme, instructions have been given to provide pension amount of Rs. 10 thousand instead of Rs. 3 thousand per month to their dependent husband/wife for life said the Bihar CM.
The Bihar CM said that the Journalists have an important role in democracy. They are the fourth pillar of democracy and have an important role in social development. He added that we have been taking care of the facilities of journalists from the beginning so that they can do their journalism impartially and live a respectable life after retirement wrote Bihar CM on X while making this announcement of increase in monthly pension to Bihar journalists.
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