lucknow bollywoods amitabh bachchan his wife jaya and his son abhishek will each get rs 50000 every month for the rest of their lives from the uttar pradesh government whenever the samajwadi party sp is in power there thats because the state cabinet decided on tuesday to give these pensions to all recipients of the yash bharti samman the states highest honour and all three actors have won the award this award is discontinued whenever the sp is not in power the monthly pension of rs 50000 is among the highest in the country and it may be more than even what several government officials receive by comparison freedom fighters and their spouses are eligible for rs 20129 a month exandaman political pensioners receive rs 23309 a month and unmarried and unemployed daughters of freedom fighters receive rs 4770 a month the pension scheme for yash bharti recipients has also emerged as the most lucrative pension scheme in the country a government of india pension scheme for old and poor artists being implemented by ups department of culture awards a sum of rs 2000 per month to performing artists who have earned a living through the profession for at least 10 years indias cricket board pays rs 15000 to cricketers whove played at least 25 first class matches and rs 50000 to former test cricketers whove played at least 100 test matches earlier the yash bharti awardees would get rs 5 lakhs but in its revised avatar recipients are given a cash award of rs 11 lakh a shawl and a citation there is no fixed number of recipients of the award each year its given to those whove achieved eminence in the fields of films art literature and sport about 150 people who trace their origins to the statehave been awarded the prize that was instituted in 1994 amitabh bachchans father noted litterateur harivansh rai bachchan was also conferred the honour in its inaugural year earlier this year the sp government gave the award to 56 people singer rekha bhardwaj classical vocalists pandit rajan and sajan mishra poet bekal utsahi padma shri awardee arunima sinha ace shooter jeetu rai kathak dancer kumkum dhar ghazal singer reeta ganguly film actors nawazuddin siddiqui and jimmy shergil singer kailash kher and wrestler alka tomar were among the winners this year ups chief minister akhilesh yadav ruled out the possibility that artists sportspersons or litterateurs will return their awards under an sp government pension will be given to all recipients the question of anyone being forced to return an award will not arise in samajwadi regime he saidtimes view it is ridiculous that uttar pradesh should be giving pensions of rs 50000 per month to all who have got the yash bharti award that the likes of the bachchans are part of the list only underlines the absurdity of the move a state which has a per capita annual income of just over rs 40000 should not be splurging on giving monthly