Pensioners Plight

It would be ungrateful on the part of the  pensioners not to thank the govt. for the 10% and 25% relief offered to them. In these hard days of high inflation and sky rocketing prices any respite big or small is more than welcome. However, it was pathetic to see long queues of old men and women standing for hours in the sizzling sun without shade and water at the bank windows waiting helplessly for their turn to draw the pension. Some of them had come from far off places and that would have cost them quite a few precious unaffordable rupees too.  In this modern computerised age, I think, it should not be difficult for the govt. to electronically transfer their pensions to their nearest bank or even the Post Office that could also be computerized to meet this essential requirement.   It would bring immense relief to the old pensioners.

Col. Riaz Jafri (Retd)