Rahul accuses centre of playing with future of youth
Cancellation of Rafale deal with HAL
Bengaluru, October 13: AICC President Rahul Gandhi accused the central government of playing with the future of thousands of eligible young graduates besides cancelling the Rafale fighter jet manufacturing deal with the HAL.
Speaking to reporters after holding a discussion with the HAL retired employees at the Minsk Square(Cubbon Park) in front of the HAL Head Office here on Saturday, Rahul Gandhi said that “the central government should have thought before cancelling the Rafale deal with the HAL. Today I have discussed with the retired employees of the HAL. The HAL has 70 years of long experience in the Defense Ministry. The HAL has manufactured various fighter jets like Sukhoi and Tejas. But the Centre has insulted their expertise and experience. The Union Defense Minister has been saying that the HAL does not have the experience of manufacturing fighter jets. Why does she keep mum on Rs 30,000 crore Rafale deal with Ambani Company which does not have any experience in that field”, he asked.
“Compared to HAL, Anil Ambani company has no experience. But Prime Minister Narendra Modi has used this deal only to help Anil Ambani. People of the country have understood this simple thing. HAL is not a loss-making public sector unit. But Anil Ambani is in loss. By cancelling the agreement with the HAL, the centre has snatched the future of thousands of youth of the country. HAL employees and officials have dedicated their life to the country.
The Union Defense Minister is lying about the Rafale Deal. Because, France Former President has already disclosed the truth”, Rahul Gandhi said.
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Nearly 70% cases in 'pension adalats' resolved since 2019: Govt
New Delhi (PTI): Over 8,300 cases were resolved in pension adalats held since 2019, Union Minister of State for Personnel Jitendra Singh informed the Rajya Sabha on Thursday.
A total of 12,049 cases were taken up by pension adalats since 2019.
In a written reply, the minister said of the total cases, 8,373 (69.49 per cent) have been resolved.
"Pension adalat is an important administrative reform for improving pensioners’ welfare by timely and effective redressal of long-standing grievances of central government pensioners," he said.
There is substantial decrease in the number of pensioners’ grievances due to the pension adalat, Singh said.
He said since 2019, eight pension adalats have been held.
As many as 403 cases were taken up in two pension adalats held in 2024, of which 330 were resolved, according to the data shared by the minister.
A total of 603 (440 were resolved) and 1,732 (1,113 were resolved) cases were taken up in 2023 and 2022 respectively, it said.
Of the total of 3,692 cases taken up in 2021, 2,598 (70.36 per cent) were resolved.
There were 342 (319 were resolved) and 5,277 (3,573 were resolved) pension-related cases were taken up in 2020 and 2019 respectively, according to the data.
