Pension Victory: Orissa HC Orders Kendrapada District Collector to Release Funds for 91-Year-Old Widow
CUTTACK, India – The Orissa High Court has intervened to ensure the timely disbursal of family pension to a 91-year-old woman in Kendrapada district, whose husband passed away 46 years ago. The court’s directive comes after months of delays in providing the pension to Hara Sahoo, whose husband, a school teacher, died in 1977. Despite multiple pleas and rejections from authorities over the years, the elderly woman has been fighting for her entitlement to family …