In Chhattisgarh's Surguja district, a woman named Sukhmania Bai carried her 90-year-old mother-in-law on her back for 9 km through difficult terrain to collect pension from a bank. The viral video highlights the lack of basic transportation and the failure of welfare delivery systems in remote tribal areas. Despite government claims of doorstep delivery and digital initiatives, elderly residents are forced to undertake arduous journeys across forests and streams due to the discontinuation of local pension distribution.
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