Biometric System Troubles Pensioners

Pensioners are facing peculiar problem in availing their monthly pension amount. The biometric system has put hardships to the pensioners in the remote villages.

Officials said the poor mobile signals in Timatam village in Dattirajeru mandal if Vizianagaram district forced the beneficiaries to go hill areas and search for mobile signals.

As the biometric system required mobile signals for the electronic transfer of the pension amount in the beneficiaries accounts, officials said it has become big difficult to to find signals in the remote habitations.