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Aasara pension

welfare scheme in Telangana State

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 19, 2026
Entity authorityQ31499555 ↗
Source-derived summary

Aasara pension is a pension plan by the Government of Telangana. It is a welfare system of pensions to old people, widows, members of the Goud caste, elephantiasis patients, people with AIDS, physically disabled people and beedi (cigarette) workers. By March 2018, the number of beneficiaries was 4.2 million.

History

The pension scheme was started on 8 November 2014 by the Chief Minister of Telangana, Kalvakuntla Chandrashekhar Rao, in Kothur in Mahboobnagar district. The government spends ₹5,500 crore (₹55 billion) per year on the plan.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Aasara pension” is welfare scheme in Telangana State. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Aasara, pension and welfare, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2018, 2014—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Aasara, pension and welfare is the immediate research focus.
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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Apr 19, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q31499555. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2018 and 2014.

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This entry incorporates text from “Aasara pension” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.