Full Form of DFF in UPSSC

Dependent of Freedom Fighters is often abbreviated as DFF in Uttar Pradesh Subordinate Services Selection Commission. The least we could offer the resistance fighters is to respect and praise them. In the last 13 years, the government has expended a total of 8669 crore rupees on pensions as part of the Freedom Fighter Pension plan, and an extra 261 crore rupees on free travel cards. More than 37000 people are currently receiving annuities under this arrangement.

Every year on the Fourth of July, we remember and reaffirm the enormous hardships faced by our predecessors. What, though, is the government actually doing to support those liberation warriors and their households? The Swatantrata Sainik Samman Pension Scheme was created with the intention of giving pensions to liberation warriors and the families who depend on them. A total of 37,356 people were receiving pensions through this system as of March 2017.

Swatantrata Sainik Samman Pension Scheme

A federal program for the award of compensation to freedom fighters and their eligible family members (where freedom fighters have already died) was implemented by the government of India during the silver jubilee year of independence (1972). The Swatantrata Sainik Samman Pension Scheme, 1980 was introduced in 1980 after the Scheme had undergone liberalization.

The Pension Scheme, created in 1980, widened the scope of the pension programme to include independence warriors and the families that depended on them. The current name of the scheme is Swatantrata Sainik Samman Yojana.

Eligibility Criteria

The Samman Pension under the Scheme is available to the substantial importance of liberation warriors. Anyone who wants to apply for a pension under this initiative must adhere to the rules established by the Ministry of Home Affairs.

1. Descendants of soldiers who qualify.
2. An individual who had been sentenced to at least six months in prison for taking part in the freedom movement.
3. An individual who spent longer than six months in hiding due to his involvement in the freedom movement.
4. A citizen who spent at least six months in their house or outside their region as a result of their involvement in the independence movement.
5. A person whose possessions were seized, abducted, and auctioned as a result of their involvement in the independence movement.
6. A person who was shot or lashed and sustained permanent disability as a result of their involvement in the freedom movement.
7. a person who was fired from their government position for taking part in the independence struggle.
8. A person who took part in the independence movement and received at least 10 caning, flogging, or whipping blows as punishment.
9. The minimum time of confinement suffering has been reduced from six months to three months as a special dispensation for the women liberation warriors and resistance fighters from Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes.
10. Under the system, dependent family pensions may be granted to spouses, unmarried, working daughters (up to three), mothers, or fathers of deceased liberation warriors, in that order.

What Further Services are Offered to Freedom Fighters?

The following benefits are also provided to Freedom Fighters in addition to the pension sum listed above:

1. Freedom fighters, their widows, and their widowers are eligible for a complimentary lifetime rail pass.
2. Telephone connection, if possible, without installation fees, and with only partial payment of the rental.
3. Physically Handicapped Personnel, Exceptional Sports persons, and Freedom Fighters are allotted 4% of the available positions.
4. The independence fighters were provided with general pool housing in Delhi. For a period of six months following the death of the freedom fighter, the widow is also allowed to keep the residence.
5. In New Delhi, there is a Liberation Fighters' Home that offers transit housing for freedom fighters and their eligible families.
6. Ex-Andaman freedom fighters and their widows are also permitted to take use of complimentary air travel services to visit the Andaman & Nicobar Islands once a year.

Rail Passes Cost Over the Past Two Years

From 2004-2005 to 2016-2017, the government spent a total of Rs 8669 crore on annuities. In the same time frame, Rs 261 crore was spent on free rail passes. Additionally, the government invested Rs 2.1 crore in the Delhi home of the independence hero.

Over the past four years, less money has been spent on free travel cards. From 2014–2015 to 2016–2017, only Rs 3 lakh was spent on free rail passes. Unknown factors may have contributed to no spending. Either the resistance fighters aren't visiting or the government isn't paying the railroads.

Statistics of Pension Receivers

The majority of pension collectors are from West Bengal and Andhra Pradesh.

37356 people, including descendants, were collecting the freedom fighters' pension as of March 2017. 12657 of them are actual independence warriors, while 23127 are spouse pensioners. 1572 more people are daughter pensioners. Out of the states, West Bengal and Andhra Pradesh each have 4937 pensioners, while Maharashtra has 4738 pensioners. Ten (10) states account for eighty per cent (80%) of all states with more than 1000 pensioners apiece. Most daughter pensioners nearly 50% are from West Bengal.

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