DEHRADUN: Neero Devi lays out two crisp notes of Rs 500 on the floor of her one-room house in Rajawala village, 20 km from Dehradun city.“This is all I have to last us for the month,” says the 62-year-old widow as she puts the princely sum, which is her monthly pension from the government , back in her tattered purse. A few metres away, her 30-year-old son, Raj Kumar, born with 60% disability which has rendered his limbs immobile, lies on a cot. He can't speak or move. His mother has to feed him.“We were heavily dependent on the monthly disability pension of Rs 1,000 my son was getting from the government. But it was stopped last year in October since he does not have an Aadhaar card. We tried several times to get him one but the machine could not take his fingerprints and iris scan,” Neero Devi told TOI on Friday.The woman also showed TOI the copy of a letter from the social welfare department which said that Kumar’s pension had been stopped since his Aadhaar number had not been submitted. “How many times can I carry around my son and take him to an Aadhaar centre? Sometimes he gets scared and becomes violent when they try to take his photo. I don’t want to put him through that again and again,” said Neero Devi.While investigating Kumar’s case, TOI made the startling discovery that pensions of over 53,000 disabled, elderly and widows in the state have also been stopped since October 2016 as they have not submitted Aadhaar details. According to documents accessed by TOI, out of 59,081 people who draw disability pension in Uttarakhand , 5,424 have not got a single penny since October 2016. Of 4.2 lakh beneficiaries who draw old-age pension, 36,060 elderly people have not received it for a year due to lack of Aadhaar.Of 1.5 lakh widows eligible for pension, 12,047 have stopped getting it as they have not submitted their Aadhaar numbers. The social welfare department said that the pensions were stopped after the state government made it mandatory to connect all government schemes to Aadhaar last year.