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The pension amount is Rs 600 per month.A senior revenue department official told TOI: “The verification process has just begun. BENGALURU : A spurt in the number of applicants seeking widow pension has spurred the government into action: It has commenced a verification drive to ascertain genuine claimants and root out fake ones.The number of applicants has shot up by 75,000 in the past one year. “But we’ll get clarity only after the verification drive,” the official said. The state had 16.3 lakh beneficiaries till September 2017, which increased to 17.1 lakh this September. Tumakuru is in the second place in terms of having new beneficiaries, with an addition of 5,796 widows..