National Social Assistance Programme

Indira Gandhi National Old Age Pension Scheme (IGNOAPS)

Indira Gandhi National Widow Pension Scheme (IGNWPS)

Indira Gandhi National Disability Pension Scheme (IGNDPS)

National Family Benefit Scheme (NFBS)

Objective : IGNOAPS : To provide monthly financial assistance @ Rs. 400/- to

the identified Old Age beneficiaries in the age group of 60-79 years (excluding BPL widows and BPL disabled persons)To provide monthly financial assistance @ Rs. 1000/- to the identified beneficiaries of age 80 years and above

IGNWPS : To provide monthly financial assistance @ Rs. 600/- to the identified Widow beneficiaries in the age group of 40-79 years

IGNDPS : To provide monthly financial assistance @ Rs. 600/- to the identified Disabled beneficiaries in the age group of 18-79 years

NFBS : The death of Primary

After Modification of eligibility Criteria under NSAP

Sl Scheme Existing eligibility criteria Revised eligibility criteria Date of

effect

1 IGNWPS BPL widows in the age group of 40-59 YearsRate of assistance : Rs. 400/- per month

BPL widows in the age group of 40-79 Years Rate of assistance : Rs. 600/- per month

01.10.2012

2 IGNDPS BPL persons with severe or multiple disabilities in the age group of 18-59 YearsRate of assistance : Rs. 400/- per month

BPL persons with severe or multiple disabilities in the age group of 18-79 YearsRate of assistance : Rs. 600/- per month

3 IGNOAPS (i) BPL persons of age 60-79 yearsRate of assistance : Rs. 400/- per month

(i) BPL persons of age 60-79 years (excluding BPL widows and BPL disabled persons)Rate of assistance : Rs. 400/- per month

(ii) BPL persons of 80 years and aboveRate of assistance : Rs. 700/- per month

(ii) BPL persons of 80 years and aboveRate of assistance : Rs. 1000/- per month

4 NFBS The death of “primary bread winner” (male or female) of a BPL household should have occurred while he or she is in the age group of 18-64 yearsRate of assistance : Rs. 10000/- lumpsum

The death of “primary bread winner” (male or female) of a BPL household should have occurred while he or she is in the age group of 18-59 yearsRate of assistance : Rs. 40000/- lumpsum

18.10.2012

Eligibility Criteria :• Must belong to identified BPL families • IGNOAPS : Age 60 years and above• IGNWPS : Within the Age Group 40-79 Years• IGNDPS : Within the Age Group 18-79 Years shall

be with severe disability (more than 80%) or multiple disabilities (atleast 40% incapacitation in each type of disability, total disability more than 80%)

Universal Coverage : There is no quota system

After Modification of eligibility Criteria under NSAP

Funding Pattern : Centre-State cost sharing at 50:50

ULB to prepare list of beneficiaries based on Urban Household Survey 2006. Municipality will convert the final sanctioned list of beneficiaries in legacy data and send the same to SUDA.

The Chairman shall have to submit a certificate on universal coverage in prescribed format to SUDA

Submit list to SUDA both Hard and Soft Copy SUDA shall send the legacy data to P & RD Department

for allocation of fund P&RD Deptt to place fund through SUDA Fund release through Bank / Post Office Account of

beneficiary

PROCESS

•Age proof certificate (EPIC/birth certificate/school

leaving certificate/horoscope)

•Death registration certificate of her husband regarding

Widow Pension

•Certificate issued by Social Welfare Department of the

district regarding disability Pension

•Photocopy of bank/post office account

Documents to be attached with Application Form for NSAP Scheme

Disbursement of Pension :

• Pension can only be disbursed through bank/post office account of the beneficiary concerned.

• Bank Account may be opened at Nationalised / Cooperative /Private/Gramin Bank

• Joint Account be opened, in case of necessity, with the person looking after the beneficiary (blood relationship with the beneficiary is preferably)

Fund has been released to all Urban Local Bodies for disbursement of Monthly Pension upto September,2014 with respect to IGNOAPS, IGNWPS & IGNDPS beneficiaries on the basis of existing eligibility criteria under NSAP.

Monthly pensions to be disbursed to the beneficiaries through bank/ post office account only.

In pursuance of the Order of P&RD Department, “Annual Verification of Existing Beneficiaries” a comprehensive guidelines on verification of all NSAP beneficiaries has already been issued from SUDA

NATIONAL SOCIAL ASSISTANCE PROGRAMME (NSAP)

Points of Importance

NATIONAL SOCIAL ASSISTANCE PROGRAMME (NSAP)

STATUS OF NSAP : AT A GLANCE

Sr ITEM

IGNOAPS(Beneficiaries

Age >=60 Years)

IGNWPS(Beneficiaries

Age within Age Group 40-79

Years)

IGNDPS(Beneficiaries

Age within Age Group 18-79

Years)

1 Total No. of Beneficiaries as on 1.1.2012 212794 90754 5306

2 Total No. of Beneficiaries as on 1.1.2013 309899 109949 9507

3 Total No. Beneficiaries as on 1.1.2014 276612

192562 12844 A Beneficiaries within the Age Group 60-79 Years 244022

B Beneficiaries Age 80 Years or above 32590

C Bank 228076 156960 9990

D Post Office Account 46804 35015 2748

E Money Order 1732 587 106

In terms of Memo. No. 3583/PN/P/II/3F-9/2006 dated 20.08.2014 of Joint Secretary, P&RD Department, the total projected figure of beneficiaries under IGNOAPS, IGNWPS & IGNDPS in Urban West Bengal has been assessed at 5.60 lakh under revised eligibility criteria of National Social Assistance Programme (NSAP). At present, total number of beneficiaries under these three components as on 1.1.2013 is 4.85 Lakh

In the meantime, complaints are being received from different corners that in certain cases the BPL ID of an identified BPL household is being used by a non- BPL person for getting him/her enrolled as a NSAP beneficiary. Application on age tampering in the Urban Legacy Database has also been received, where an under-aged person is being shown to be a beneficiary. Names of dead beneficiaries, migrated beneficiaries and those getting pension from other schemes, still exist in the database despite all out effort to weed out the ineligible beneficiaries.

In order to prepare an error free comprehensive beneficiary list of NSAP Scheme Urban Legacy Data of all the eligible beneficiaries as per revised eligibility criteria with respect to 1.1.2014 , the following steps are required to be taken by the ULB :-

Commissioner/ Joint Municipal Commissioner/Secretary in case of Corporation and Executive Officer / Finance Officer (in absence of Executive Officer) and Office Superintendent/ Head Clerk (in absence of Executive officer & Finance Officer) in case of Municipality/N.A.A will act as the Nodal Officer for the entire verification process.

Officer/(s) to be nominated by the NODAL OFFICER will physically verify all the existing beneficiary of the approved beneficiary list as on 1.1.2013 as well as newly identified beneficiaries. Documents like EPIC Card/Birth Certificate / School Leaving Certificate/Horoscope/ AADHAAR Number/ Ration Card Number should be checked at the time of such verification. The Officer/(s) will identify those beneficiaries who have died / migrated and note the date of death/migration and verify supporting documents, as available.

The Officer/(s) will also be required to verify whether any existing beneficiary is receiving pension under any other pension scheme of Govt. of West Bengal.

During field verification, special care to be taken to identify widow/ disability status of IGNOAPS beneficiaries within the age group 60-79 years. Lack of this particular information is likely to deprive a genuine beneficiary of their benefit because the amount of widow and disability pension has been increased. To facilitate the verification process, a standard format has been designed, Information as required in FORMAT-A can also be generated from the Urban Legacy Database for verification.

A list of probable duplicate names, if any, is to be prepared from Urban Legacy Data FORMAT-B.

A reasoned order has to be passed by the concerned Officer before deleting any such name from the list after giving due opportunity of being heard to the concerned person. All such deletions are to be given effect in the Urban Legacy Data.

These information can be gathered from legacy data

These information

can be gathered

from legacy data

These information can be gathered from legacy data

• On the basis of report received in Format A & B , the Commissioner/Executive Officer shall then take all necessary steps for submission of Legacy Database in Soft Copy with a copy of supporting resolution of BOC, Universal Coverage Certificate latest by 27th October,2014 positively to SUDA for onward transmission to P&RD Deptt

• After field verification, necessary correction and inclusion of newly identified beneficiaries as on 1.1.2014 for all the three Pension Schemes under NSAP needs to incorporated strictly using the Software in MS-EXCEL (Template designed by Govt. of India)

• Urban Legacy Database must contain the following Information

State District ULB NameWard No First nameFathers/ Husband nameFull AddressBPL Survey Year ( 2014 for newly identified beneficiaries )BPL family IDGender ( “M”for Male , “F” for Female)Age Date of BirthCaste Category (GEN/SC/ST/OBC/MIN)Minority Status ( Y/N )

Disbursement Mode ( 1 for Bank, 2 for Post Office, 3 for Money Order)Type of Bank ( Commercial, Cooperative, Rural, Private)Bank/Post office NameBank branch nameBank/Post Office Account No.Disbursement upto ( by default its value is 31/3/2009 for newly identified beneficiaries)EPIC No.Ration Card No.Mobile No :UID/Aadhaar Number :Disability Code & disability percentage (applicable only for IGNDPS)

District : Bankura Report : Contingency

ULBS Name No. of Beneficiaries

2013-14 2014-15

BANKURA 8713 183958 771597BISHNUPUR 2978 75685 263723

SONAMUKHI 2188 61851 193762

JHALDA 1161 29236 102339

PURULIA 3691 88295 326864

RAGHUNATHPUR 1448 35515 128231

District : Purulia Report : Contingency

CONTAI 4084 103884 361667

EGRA 2255 57914 199696

HALDIA 4880 106544 432158

PANSKURA 3272 66906 222853

TAMLUK 4104 104469 362969

District : Purba Midnapore Report : Contingency

ULBS Name No. of Beneficiaries 2013-14 2014-15CHANDRAKONA 1649 41979 146031

GHATAL 4862 112875 430564JHARGRAM 2344 53285 154293

KHARAGPUR 10991 273849 699481

KHARAR 983 19633 87052KHIRPAI 885 24874 78373

MIDNAPORE 6235 155280 396873RAMJIBANPUR 984 25273 87140

District : Paschim Midnapore Report : Contingency

District : Birbhum Report : Contingency

BOLPUR 4809 109843 425871

DUBRAJPUR 2906 91646 257347

NALHATI 2348 60761 207932

RAMPURHAT 5413 122905 477859

SAINTHIA 3147 82708 278689

SURI ** 4564 142138 404174

District : Bardhaman Report : Contingency

ULBS Name No. of Beneficiaries

2013-14 2014-15

ASANSOL MC 15523 307421 1374671

BURDWAN 8058 194945 518648

DAINHAT 1598 46555 103314

DURGAPUR MC 6766 194333 599144

GUSHKARA 2019 54429 178797

JAMURIA 5390 99814 477322

KALNA 2663 57861 235827

KATWA 1679 44134 128687

KULTI 7901 128757 699689

MEMARI 1304 32136 115478

RANIGANJ 2758 59883 214357

District : Cooch Behar Report : Contingency

ULBS NameNo. of

Beneficiaries 2013-14 2014-15

COOCH BEHAR 2117 56478 187475

DINHATA 2087 55653 129166

HALDIBARI 680 17797 60219

MATHABHANGA 502 11147 44456

MEKLIGANJ 455 12450 27843

TUFANGANJ 969 27028 85812

DHUPGURI 3400 65390 235704

JALPAIGURI 5569 145889 411785

MAL 1130 32987 67082

District : Jalpaiguri Report : Contingency

District : Alipurduar Report : Contingency

ALIPURDUAR 5076 118196 449515

District : Darjeeling Report : Contingency

ULBS NameNo. of

Beneficiaries 2013-14 2014-15

DARJEELING 1998 42086 134851

KALIMPONG 760 17212 67303

KURSEONG 406 11067 35954

MIRIK ** 383 12078 33917

SILIGURI MC 6867 169167 608121

BALURGHAT 2741 69752 242735

GANGARAMPUR 2139 54083 149340

District : Dakshin Dinajpur Report : Contingency

DALKHOLA 1794 46821 158871

ISLAMPUR 1953 56132 172952

KALIAGANJ 3585 82841 317477

RAIGANJ 7002 169992 620076

District : Uttar Dinajpur Report : Contingency

ULBS NameNo. of

Beneficiaries 2013-14 2014-15

ENGLISHBAZAR 7527 159377 666569

OLD MALDA 2998 73557 265494

District : Malda Report : Contingency

BELDANGA 1436 41820 85348

BERHAMPORE 6697 190662 593066

DHULIYAN 10749 200319 939791

JANGIPUR 5362 128491 468517

JIAGANJ AZIMGANJ 6240 149773 552596

KANDI 3520 93908 311721

MURSHIDABAD 4092 83107 362375

District : Murshidabad Report : Contingency

District : Howrah Report : Contingency

ULBS NameNo. of

Beneficiaries 2013-14 2014-15

BALLY 2299 57462 157435

HOWRAH MC 4046 115589 310202

ULUBERIA 14830 260867 1282115

ULBS NameNo. of

Beneficiaries 2013-14 2014-15

KOLKATA MC 31049 922264 2749607

District : Kolkata Report : Contingency

Fund released electronically in favour of Municipalities / N.A.A. / Corporations as contingency towards administrative expenses for implementation of NSAP which may be incurred on the following activities- Information, Education and Communication – awareness

generation activities viz. preparation and dissemination of IEC material, community mobilization, use of media, printing of application forms of schemes under NSAP, Household contact campaigns.

Training of Nodal Officers, Training need assessment, Development of training modules and materials, organization of training programmes, current impact assessment of trainings, exposure visits, use of distance education method.

Quality supervision viz. monitoring, annual verification, conducting evaluation study & impact assessment study, social audit.

Setting up of grievance redressal system viz. helplines at ULB level.

Management Information System viz. collection of data, electronic processing, report generation, transmission.

If necessary, the required services may be outsourced after observing prevalent financial rules, West Bengal

Operation expenses viz. expenses on Bank/Post Office charges, charges relating to business correspondence by Bank, use of common service center.

Stationery related to computational process/MIS. One time augmentation of computational facilities at

the ULB level and one time expenses for almirah for record-keeping and functional furniture.

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regarding information on

Release of fund since released from SUDA Orders and Report

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