The Pauri district police administration has launched a drive to contact the senior citizens and people with special needs in their homes located in the urban and rural areas to know about their problems in the different parts of the district.
The Pauri district Senior Superintendent of Police, Jagat Ram Joshi said that the aim of the drive is to identify those senior citizens who are living alone and to know the problems of the senior citizens, dependent persons and to facilitate the necessary assistance for the security of their life and property. Joshi is personally taking interest in the drive and visiting the houses of the old persons and dependents.
The SSP informed that the police personnel had visited the houses of senior citizens and dependent persons in the town, villages, other localities and collected information about the problems they are facing. The police will make all possible efforts to redress the problems of the senior citizens. The police personnel will contact all the senior citizens once in a month and will give contact number of the police station concerned to be used in case of any help required in addition to noting their identity, address and mobile phone numbers.
It is pertinent to mention here that the district SSP has so far himself met eight senior citizens in Pauri town and 30 senior citizens in the rural area of lawali village. Senior citizens Jaspal Singh Negi, Harish Sadana, Chandi Prasad Naithani, Bhagwan Verma, Abhay Goel, Padmendra Negi, Bijendra Negi complained regarding the traffic situation pointing to aspects like speeding and said that many had been injured due to mishaps caused by youths speeding on two-wheelers.
They also said that the youth are becoming addicted to substance abuse and asked that the police take necessary action to tackle this problem. The senior citizens also complained that they were not treated well by the police when they visit the police station. The SSP assured them that proper action will be taken on their complaints.
During the drive, additional superintendent of police, Kotdwar met 22 senior citizens, the Kotdwar circle officer (CO) met 20, Pauri CO met 51 while lansdowne thana personnel visited 15 senior citizens, personnel of Kalagarh police station visited 36, Devprayag police visited 56, Dhumakot police visited 120, lakshmanjhula police met 150, Srinagar polie met 146, Pauri police met 60, Satpuli police met 31, Rekhnikhal police met 101 and Kotdwar police visited the homes of 130 old persons.
According to the police, the senior citizens talked about their family problems, medical issues, old age pension, lack of grains from ration dealer, the problem faced in filling forms in banks and other issues to the police personnel in the different parts of the district.