CURRENT AFFAIRS

Detailed explanation-1: -The Maharashtra Government has decided to double the pension of freedom fighters from ten thousand to twenty thousand rupees per month. Accordingly, freedom fighters associated with India’s freedom struggle, Marathwada Mukti Sangram and Goa Liberation Movement will benefit from this decision.

Detailed explanation-2: -Freedom Fighters receiving State Freedom Fighter’s Pension (Rs. 16,000 + Rs. 500/- Medical Allowance per month).

Detailed explanation-3: -Punjab people contributed the most.

Detailed explanation-4: -Karnataka pays pension to 4,475 freedom fighters, but not many alive.

Detailed explanation-5: -Kittur Chennamma was born on 23 October 1778, in Kakati, a small village in the present Belagavi District of Karnataka, India. She belonged to the Lingayat community and received training in horse riding, sword fighting and archery from a young age. She married Raja Mallasarja of the Desai family at the age of 15.