How EPS-95 Pensioners Continue to Suffer in Silence
EPS-95 Pensioners: Employees’ Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO) in India, demanding at least Rs 7,500 as a monthly pension along with dearness allowance. The current minimum monthly pension is Rs 1,000, which started on September 1, 2014. The current minimum pension of Rs 1,000 a month was standardised in 2014 and has remained the same ever since. With increased living expenses and inflation, most employee associations have long been agitating for a sizeable increase, claiming that Rs 1,000 is insufficient to live on.
The call for a realistic and dignified pension continues to be one of the core issues of the EPS-95 pensioners’ movement, which demands justice for millions of retired workers in India who devoted their lives to nation-building but are now living in penury. Their voices have been unheard for more than a decade, while India’s retired workers have been weeping for justice.
Their ₹1,000 pension, as guaranteed under EPS-95, has long been rendered valueless by the effects of inflation, where the millions of older citizens can barely buy medicines, pay rent, or even afford a decent meal. They constructed the factories, offices, and industries that propelled India’s growth, but today they are forgotten, invisible in the country they helped build.
With every year that goes by unchanged, their despondency is further entrenched, and their trust in the system designed to safeguard them is depleted. The government owes it to itself and to the nation’s conscience to finally heed their plea and act humanely—hike the pension to at least ₹7,500 with dearness relief, not as a courtesy, but as an overdue right to spend their twilight years in peace and dignity. Still, there has been no official order or sanction to send the minimum Employees’ Pension Scheme (EPS-95) pension from ₹1,000 to ₹7,500.
Conclusion
It’s time for the government to stop ignoring the plight of EPS-95 pensioners who toiled their lives to build the country’s economy.
It has been more than a decade since they have been crying for a decent pension, but their voices are still unheard. ₹1,000 per month isn’t a pension — it’s injustice. The government has to move with urgency and compassion to increase the minimum pension to at least ₹7,500 with dearness relief so that millions of retired workers can restore their dignity and hope to live out their later years with honour rather than despair.
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