Ramachandran Nair, J.

1. Heard learned counsel for the appellant and learned Standing Counsel for the State Co-operative Employees Pension Board.

2. The question raised is whether the Pension Board is liable to pay interest for belated payment of pension. What is conceived under the Scheme is allotment of individual code numbers to employees and monthly remittance of contribution by the employer Society. The Scheme also provides for advance submission of application with recommendations through the Society, so that soon after retirement, the employee starts getting eligible pension. In this case, the defence put forward by the Pension Board is that the Society was a chronic defaulter in payment of contribution and in fact in the account of the appellant, first contribution was made after 20 years of his service and thereafter also, with interest payments were made in installments. Learned Standing Counsel for the Pension Board submitted that application was received for pension only on 24/02/2011 and it took two months for processing and verification, and thereafter without any delay on 30/05/2011, the Pension Board gave arrears of pension of Rs.1,05,413/-. We agree with t