AGARTALA, July 30 (TIWN): On the auspicious occasion of the 5th Foundation Day of All Tripura Pension Association (ATPA), on Wednesday a discussion session was organized at Agartala Krishna Nagar TRTC complex.

During discussion session, the dignitaries have discussed on various problems of senior citizens and the responsibilities of Government and Society.

While addressing the crowd the president of ATPA- Santi Ranjan Debnath said that pensioners of all sections mostly the senior citizens are being deprived of getting appropriate pension benefit due to the negligence of Left Front ruled state government.

There are numbers of pensioners who dint get 1.85 fixation factor. Those who have gone to retirement from 01-01-06 are deprived of their booster payment.

As per the direction of the finance department given on June 25th only 5 % booster payment is hiked for the pensioners who have go to retirement between 01-01-16 to 31-12-05.

However, Former MLA Ajay Biswas, retired professor of MBB College Prashanto Bhattacharjee, Vice President of sub-divisional committee Prafulla Debnath along with other dignitaries remained present in the program.