Hry: Pension scheme launched for Matrabhasha Satyagraihis

The Haryana government today launched a monthly pension scheme for Matrabhasha Satyagraihis at a programme in Kurukshetra district.
In the scheme's first phase, as many as 194 beneficiaries have been identified, an official release said here.
The event, organised as part of the International Gita Mahotsav, was attended by RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat, governors Kaptan Singh Solanki and Acharya Devvrat, and Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar, it said.
They presented cheques of Rs 10,000 each to eight beneficiaries as pension for November at the event, the release said.
The pension scheme has been started by the state government for those who participated in the Hindi movement in 1957, Khattar said

He said the movement was neither for any individual benefit nor political mileage, but to revive the honour of the language.
This historical movement started on April 30, 1957, and continued till December 27, 1957. Sumer Singh of Rohtak district's Bans village laid down his life for the movement, Khattar added.
The chief minister said that he had announced the scheme for Matrabhasha Satyagarihis during the closing ceremony of the Swarna Jayanti Year celebration of Haryana on October 31.