{"id":315123,"date":"2025-09-11T12:16:30","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T12:16:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/?p=315123"},"modified":"2025-09-11T12:16:30","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T12:16:30","slug":"opinion-blog-rs-300-pension-for-poor-lakhs-for-mps-an-rti-exposes-indias-brutal-welfare-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/?p=315123","title":{"rendered":"Opinion: Blog | Rs 300 Pension For Poor, Lakhs For MPs: An RTI Exposes India&#8217;s Brutal Welfare System"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The question is simple and unavoidable: what kind of democracy accepts that its weakest citizens must live on \u20b9300 a month while its richest representatives debate whether \u20b91.1 lakh is &#8220;too little&#8221;?<\/p>\n<p>\u200bThe question is simple and unavoidable: what kind of democracy accepts that its weakest citizens must live on \u20b9300 a month while its richest representatives debate whether \u20b91.1 lakh is &#8220;too little&#8221;?\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The question is simple and unavoidable: what kind of democracy accepts that its weakest citizens must live on<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":315124,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-315123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/03hd9ml8_rupee-rupees-cash-money_625x300_16_November_18-NC5ouc.jpeg",1200,738,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/03hd9ml8_rupee-rupees-cash-money_625x300_16_November_18-NC5ouc-150x150.jpeg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/03hd9ml8_rupee-rupees-cash-money_625x300_16_November_18-NC5ouc-300x185.jpeg",300,185,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/03hd9ml8_rupee-rupees-cash-money_625x300_16_November_18-NC5ouc-768x472.jpeg",640,393,true],"large":["https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/03hd9ml8_rupee-rupees-cash-money_625x300_16_November_18-NC5ouc-1024x630.jpeg",640,394,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/03hd9ml8_rupee-rupees-cash-money_625x300_16_November_18-NC5ouc.jpeg",1200,738,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/03hd9ml8_rupee-rupees-cash-money_625x300_16_November_18-NC5ouc.jpeg",1200,738,false],"morenews-large":["https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/03hd9ml8_rupee-rupees-cash-money_625x300_16_November_18-NC5ouc-825x575.jpeg",825,575,true],"morenews-medium":["https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/03hd9ml8_rupee-rupees-cash-money_625x300_16_November_18-NC5ouc-590x410.jpeg",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"","author_link":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/?author=0"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/?cat=1\" rel=\"category\">Uncategorized<\/a>","tag_info":"Uncategorized","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=315123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315123\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/315124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=315123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=315123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=315123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}