Importance of Senior Citizens.

3. Who are Senior Citizens
• According to the law, a "senior citizen" means
a citizen at the age of 60 and above are
considered to be senior citizens.
• Meanings include old age
pensioner or pensioneer, retiree, senior.

4. Contributions of Senior Citizens
• The elderly can make great contributions to
the communities in which they live.
• In past the elderly were took as the source of
information about Historical events and
Cultures.

5. Contributions of Senior Citizens
• There are many examples of Senior’s
Contribution to the society and family.
• For society: The Retired carpenters,
electricians, and plumbers help to repair the
damage specifically that are done to the
homes of older and disabled individuals.

6. Contributions of Senior Citizens
• For Families: The teacher, guide and assistance
to grandchildren's, Helping with a student
struggling to learn reading and writing.

7. Present Day Position
• In modern period, Some aged individuals are
often excluded, neglected, overlooked; elders
are seen no longer as bearers of wisdom but
as a symbol of shame.

8. Government Schemes
• In 1999 Government of INDIA announced the
NPOP(National Policy on Older People)
promising to safeguard their interest in terms
of Financial, health, legal, social and
psychological securities.

9. Government Schemes
• The Maintenance and Welfare of Parents and
Senior Citizens Act, which punishes children
who abandon parents with a prison term of
three months or a fine, was enacted in the
year 2007.

10. Concessions and facilities given to
Senior Citizen
Ministry of Social Justice & Empowerment:
Financial assistance up to 90% of the project cost is
provided to NGOs for establishing and maintaining
Old Age Homes, Day Care Centres, and Mobile
Medicare Units and to provide non-institutional
services to older persons.

11. Concessions and facilities given to
Senior Citizen
Ministry of Road transport, Highways and
Railways:
• Reservation of two seats for senior citizens in front row of the
buses of the State Road Transport Undertakings.
• Indian Railways provide 30% fare concession in all Mail /
Express trains, separate counters, wheel chairs and special
coaches for senior citizens.

12. Concessions and facilities given to
Senior Citizen
Ministry of Finance, Telecommunications,
health and welfare:
• A Senior Citizens Savings Scheme offering an interest
rate is 9% per annum on the deposits made by the
senior citizens in post offices has been introduced by
the Government through Post Offices in India doing
savings bank work.
• Separate queues for older persons in hospitals for
registration and clinical examination.
• Faults/complaints of senior citizens are given priority
by registering them under senior citizens category
with VIP flag, which is a priority category.

13. Concessions and facilities given to
Senior Citizen

14. Concessions and facilities given to
Senior Citizen
Ministry of Civil Aviation, Food and Miscellaneous:
• Under the Antyodaya Scheme, the Below Poverty Line (BPL)
families which also include older persons are provided food
grains at the rate of 35 kgs. per family per month. The food
grains are issued @ Rs.3/- per kg. for rice and Rs.2/- per kg.
for wheat. The persons aged 60 years above from the BPL
category were given priority for identification.
• Under the Old Age Pension Scheme, monthly pension is given
at variable rates to the destitute old by various State
Governments/UT Administrations.
• Indian Airlines is providing 50 per cent Senior Citizen Discount
on Normal Economy Class fare for all domestic flights to
Indian senior citizens who have completed the age of 65 years
in the case of male senior citizens and 63 years in the case of
female senior citizens subject to certain conditions.

15. International Day of Older Persons
• The 1st October is observed every year as the
International Day of Older Persons
internationally.
• Ministry of Social Justice & Empowerment
has been celebrating the occasion every year
by organizing a series of programmes.

16. Maintenance and Welfare of
Senior Citizens
• Taking care our parents or senior citizens
including the factors as such provisions for
food, clothing, residence and medical
attendance and treatment.

17. What do the old people anticipate
for?
• We do not realize how lonely they are, What they
seek is love, affection and company. They want their
children to be with them and to provide warmth and
comfort them.

18. Our Responsibility
Being a citizen of INDIA and moreover
children, grand children to our Senior
Citizens its our responsibility to save
and protect them.