Around 10,767 persons have been denied pension benefits in the district for failing to get their pension accounts linked with Aadhaar cards. The total number of pensioners here has reduced to around 85,804 from 96,571 earlier after the Aadhaar linking process was started, it is learnt. However, this is 3.07 per cent of the total 3.5 lakh pensioners in the state who have failed to justify their claim through linking of their pension accounts with their Aadhaar cards. They will not get pension for September.
— source tribuneindia.com