The Joint Action Committee of Senior Citizens consisting of over twenty organisations from all over India has organised a Protest Day on Aug 16th, 2010 to highlight the apathy of the Central and State governments toward the issues of 10 Crore Senior Citizens of this country. For complete details, pl. go to http://groups.google.co.in/groups/scnpd
The Centre for Lifelong Learning, TISS in support of the just and long neglected demands of Senior Citizens and their Associations has organised a Press Conference to be held on the 13th August, 2010. at 2.30pm in the TISS Convention Centre Lobby, Naoroji Campus, Deonar Farm Road. Deonar, Mumbai,400088.
The Press Conference will be addressed by Prof. S. Parasuraman,Director, TISS, Dr. Kinjawdekar, President, AISSCON, Dr Chapke, General Secretary, AISSCON, Mr. Vijay Aundhe,President, FESSCOM, Prof. Sivaraju, Chairperson, Centre for Develpment Studies, TISS.
Kindly find attached the Action Plan circulated by the Joint Action Committee in Marathi and English, as also the Memorandum presented by the Joint Action Committee to the Prime Minister of India, Shri Manmohan Singh.The documents depict a tale of humiliation and neglect which lakhs of Senior Citizens are subject to in terms of their basic human rights concerning health, social security and mental and emotional well being. All legislation remains on paper.
To illustrate but a few:
- The National Policy for Older Persons (NPOP) despite having been adopted by the Central Government 11 years ago has not received a nod from 28 States and Union Territorries.Not a SINGLE State of India has fully implemented it.
- 32 States and Union territorries are yet to operationalise the Maintenance and Welfare of Parents and Senior Citizen's Act,2007 even three years after its enactment.
- In the Union budget for the year 2007-2008, out of the 22 crores allocated to the schemes for welfare of Senior Citizens, 12 crores were returned unutilised.
-The announcement by Mr. P. Chidambaram to set up a National Institute of Ageing, with an allocation of Rs 100 crores and 8 Regional Institutes with an allocation of 200 crores remains just that -- an announcement.
The list can run into pages.We exhort you to go through the attached documents to understand the enormity of the problem that is being faced by the elders in our country.
Your participation in the Press Conference as also demonstrating your solidarity on August 16th by wearing a black band and joining the march to Azad Maidan, will go a long away in supporting this Protest. You are also invited to post messages on our blog www.centreforlifelonglearningtiss.blogspot.com
In Solidarity with the Joint Action Committee,
Prof. Nasreen Rustomfram,
Mr. Sandip Ravindra,
Ms. Pallavi Kumari,
Ms. Megha Nikam
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