Railways verifying its pensioners aged over 80 
The Indian Railways are sending out hundreds of “Welfare Inspectors” in order to ascertain whether its 2.86 lakh former employees aged between 80 and 100 years,  drawing pension are actually alive. Under the first-of-its-kind exercise by the Railways, the inspectors physically visit the houses of all pensioners and obtain their signatures in the presence of their neighbours as witnesses. 