I would like to draw your kind attention to a problem which has not been paid much attention to till date. The pension system and the procedure of getting that scanty amount (which may be of immense joy to the receiver) may be bearable to us: the younger lot. However, for our elderly citizens, the entire procedure of standing in a queue and waiting for their turns takes hours which is certainly beyond their strength and stamina. Furthermore, there are instances of flaws, or let’s say ruptures, in the process of handing over the amount in the computer system which makes it more torturing and humiliating. I request the ones in power to please devise and implement effective ways of pension distribution that are not humiliating and fatiguing out of respect for the elders and those who have given us our future.
MAVRA AHMAD
Lahore
