Bihar Patrakar Samman Pension Yojana 2025 Form PDF – Pension Amount Increased to ₹15000

Bihar Patrakar Samman Pension Yojana 2025 is a flagship pension scheme for journalists being run by the Bihar government. The state government has now increase the pension amount under the new Bihar Patrakar samman pension yojana from ₹6000 per month to ₹15000 per month.

Further, if a journalist who is receiving a pension under the Bihar Journalist Honor Pension Scheme passes away, their dependent spouse will now receive a lifetime monthly pension of ₹10,000, increased from the earlier amount of ₹3,000. In this article, we will tell you about the complete details of the Bihar Patrakar Samman Pension Yojana.

What is Bihar Patrakar Samman Pension Yojana 2025

Information & Public Relations Department (IPRD) on directions from Bihar CM Nitish Kumar renamed the scheme earlier from Patrakar Pension Yojana to Patrakar Samman Pension Yojana. IPRD has even made necessary amendments in the existing pension rules to benefits the eligible retired journalists.

Announcement made by Bihar CM on 26th July 2025

Benefits of Bihar Patrakar Samman Pension Yojana

As per the existing rules of the scheme, the beneficiary would get the pension benefits. An amount of ₹15,000 per month would be given to the beneficiary (retired journalist) in the form of pension.

Eligibility Criteria for Bihar Patrakar Samman Yojana

• A retired journalist having 20 years of minimum experience would be eligible for Bihar Patrakar Samman Pension Yojana.
• Any retired journalist who have crossed the age of 60 years would be eligible for the journalist pension scheme.

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Beneficiaries of Bihar Patrakar Samman Pension Yojana

The state govt. of Bihar has selected hundreds of retired journalists for providing financial assistance in the current year. However, pension amount was transferred in bank accounts of only those journalists whose application was approved. The application of remaining journalists will be approved after the proper review and scrutiny of details and documents. Hence pension amount in their bank accounts will be transferred on completion of the month.

Bihar Patrakar Samman Pension Yojana Application Form PDF

The government also requested the journalist’s delegation to come with some effective suggestions for the Patrakar Samman Pension Scheme. CM asked journalists for what method should be used to certify the qualifying criteria of minimum 20 years of working experience in the field of journalism.

Earlier, some journalists requested the government to increase the amount of pension but the government declined the request. Bihar Patrakar Samman Yojana was formed in the governance period of former CM Jitan Ram Manjhi in February 2015.