The HelpAge India organisation would felicitate senior citizens on October 1 at Gandhi Bhawan. Minister of State for Cooperatives Vishwas Sarang, MP Alok Sanjar, Social Justice Department Secretary VK Batham and Madhya Pradesh State Senior Citizen Welfare Commission Chairman VG Dharmadhikari would be the chief guests of the felicitation programme.
While talking to the media persons here on Friday, HelpAge India Organisation’s State Head Sanskriti Gaur told, “We have launched a ‘HelpAge SOS mobile app’ to help the senior citizens. The app would provide information to senior citizens regarding their rights, health schemes and finance schemes.”
Organisation member Deepti Joshi said that senior citizens can get many facilities with the help of HelpAge SOS app. The organisation also has helpline number to help the senior citizens.
Joshi further said, “We are also conducting many competitions for the school children in order to sensitize the children regarding problems of the senior citizens. We have started the registration process for the national and state level essay writing competition for the school students of class 8, 9 and 10 over the topic ‘when I’m 64’. The winner of the national level competition would get a scholarship of `50,000. The winner of state level essay competition would get the reward of `5000.”
Joshi added that registration for national level video film contest and science project competition has also started. Joshi told that school children and youth would also be felicitated during the programme on international day of elder person (October 1).