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Malnourished sisters to get Rs 2,000 monthly pension

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Press Trust of India New Delhi

The sisters - Mamta (40) and Neeraja (29) - are recuperating at Ambedkar hospital where they were admitted on June 16 after being rescued from their Rohini residence in a serious condition.

Dikshit said the government will also provide a monthly pension of Rs 1,000 to their 79-year-old mother Nirmala Devi, besides giving the family an assistance of Rs 10,000 to meet their urgent needs.

Mamta, who is divorced and has a teenaged son, and her sister Neerja never ventured out of their house for years and had confined themselves to their house. Some relatives used to help them financially as they did not have any source of income.

 

Both the sisters were malnourished and Mamta was bed-ridden.

  

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First Published: Jun 23 2012 | 6:35 PM IST

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