MISMATCH OF
SPOUSE NAME IN THE PENSION RECORDS
Off late it has become a big problem for some aged
pensioners and the unfortunate widows to correct a small spelling mistakes in
their names to get pension. For example,
for a question asked by a record office clerk “What is the name of your wife” the Sepoy says VANI. The record clerk writes it as VENI. The Sepoy has no access to see what is
written. He comes to know about this
small spelling mistake when he applies for Endorsement of family pension.
There was no system of endorsement of family pension in the
PPO of the pensioners who retired before 1.4.1985. Later in the year 1987, the CDA Allahabad
issued circulars to apply for endorsement of family pension in a prescribed
format.
Due to communication gap, many pensioners did not apply
for endorsement of family pension and died leaving behind their spouse to run
pillar to post for sanction of family pension now.
Many pre-86 pensioners, while filling up their pension
papers have not taken due care to fill up the correct name of their spouse as
per their spouse’s school records. They
have just given the name without verifying any educational records of their
spouses. This has resulted enormous
variation from their original educational records. The level of education of most of the spouses
of the Other Ranks also was below primary school level. They were not having any authentic record of
their name in any documents like School certificate, voter IDs, PAN Cards etc.
Moreover the names of the south Indian Ladies such as
VANI, KUTTI, ANANDHI, PRIYA always undergo spelling error while writing in
English by Hindi speaking staff at the record offices. For example, the name VANI is simply written as VENI, KUTTI is written
as KUTTY, ANANDHI is written as ANANDI. Since the records are not easily accessible,
the error goes unnoticed. This comes to
light only after retirement and that too, when the pensioner opens a Bank
account for his spouse as per present Aadhaar Card, Voter ID etc. There comes the mismatch of name between
pension record name and the bank account name.
The bank does not accept VANI and
VENI as one person. PPO says Veni and the Bank account says
Vani. The bank refuses to credit
pension. Now it is a very log procedure to
correct this spelling mistake.
Generally all the record offices ask the following
documents for changing name even for a small spelling mistake as shown above.
1.
An application for change of spouse name.
2.
Publish the change of name in any news paper’s
advertisement (in English) and submit the concerned full page of the same in
original.
3.
An affidavit (in original) duly issued by Notary
Public for change of name
4.
Self declaration (for change of spouse name)
5.
A copy of Date of birth proof (PAN Card/ECHS
Card/Aadhaar Card/Matric Certificate)
After submitting the above documents, the Record Office
will publish Part II order/NE POR. Only
then your application will be forwarded to CDA(P) for issue of Corr. PPO. This process will take more than six
months. Till the time the widow cannot
get pension. This is the situation.
My friend's wife name is Krishna Veni. But it is written by the record clerk as Krishna Wayne in the pension records. For the past six months he is running pillar to post for correcting the same. He is 73 years old now.
CAN WE NOT SIMPLIFY THIS PROCEDURE ?
THINK IT OVER
PLEASE HELP AGED PENSIONERS
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