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The Centre has been approved an allocation of ₹3,274.87 crore for the continuation of the Swatantrata Sainik Samman Yojana (SSSY).

·        This is often a Central scheme for the grant of pension to freedom fighters and their families from the Central Revenues..

·        It was introduced by the Government of India.

·        The Scheme provides for the grant of pension to living freedom fighters and their families, if they are no more alive, and to the families or martyrs.

·        The scheme provides for a monthly Samman Pension to freedom fighters, as a token of respect for their contribution in the national freedom struggle and on their demise, to their eligible dependents viz.

·         spouses and thenceforth, unmarried and unemployed daughters and dependent parents, as per prescribed eligibility norms and procedure.

·        Swatantrata Sainik Samman Pension Scheme was launched in 1972 during the silver jubilee year of independence which grants pension to freedom fighters and their eligible dependents if the freedom fighter had already expired.

·        Later in 1980, it was liberalized and renamed as Swatantrata Sainik Samman Pension Scheme, and made effective from August the same year.

·        In 2017, when the 12th Five Year Plan ended, the NDA government approved the continuation of the scheme after renaming it as Swatantrata Sainik Samman Yojana (SSSY) up to 2020.