Pension is a right

Seventy-five-year-old Dwarika Paswan travelled with 250 others from Bihar’s Muzaffarpur district on a journey that most of us who read this column will find difficult to understand. He is bent over, shuffles along, and has as family his wife, who is too old and infirm to move, and a disabled son. He can barely walk, but he has to ply a cycle rickshaw to support his family. He gets nothing from the State – not even access to a BPL card to get cheap rations. It is difficult to imagine what his frail body endures. . .

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