Freedom Fighters & Rehabilitation Division, a division of the Ministry of Home Affairs of India, manages the Swathantra Sainik Samman Pension Scheme - a national pension scheme introduced in 1972 for Freedom Fighters (Swatantrata Sainiks) and their dependents.
The division also handles rehabilitation assistance for refugees and migrants from Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Tibet.
[3] For example, it took 24 years of legal fighting for S. M. Shanmugam to finally receive his pension in August 2006.
[3] The freedom fighters pension scheme was instituted in 1972.
Eligible as freedom fighters are people who; The following movements and mutinies are recognized by the central government of India for the purpose of the freedom fighters pensione scheme administered by the division:[4][5]