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Marking World Elder Abuse Awareness Day (WEAAD) 2026, HelpAge India connected Monday organised an lawsuit successful Hyderabad and launched its nationalist study titled ‘Climate Resilient Ageing – Ensuring Care, Dignity and Agency’, which highlights the expanding interaction of clime alteration connected aged persons, peculiarly those belonging to susceptible communities.
The study by the NGO which focusses connected elder citizens and aged attraction underlines the request for age-inclusive clime action, improved catastrophe preparedness and stronger societal extortion systems to safeguard the wellbeing, dignity and resilience of elder citizens. It besides calls for greater argumentation attraction to the circumstantial challenges faced by aged radical during utmost upwind events and different climate-related emergencies.
Addressing the gathering, B. Sailaja, Commissioner for Welfare of Disabled and Senior Citizens, authorities of Telangana, said the State authorities was committed to strengthening payment measures for elder citizens. She highlighted the implementation of the Maintenance and Welfare of Parents and Senior Citizens Act successful Telangana and said mechanisms had been enactment successful spot to alteration aged citizens to rise concerns relating to neglect and maintenance.
The Act provides eligible parents with avenues to question attraction support. She noted that nether the existing process, a information of an employee’s salary, astir 10-15% wherever applicable, tin beryllium channelled done the leader mechanics to enactment babelike parents. Grievances are besides being addressed done a strategy operating astatine the Revenue Divisional Officer (RDO) level, with efforts being made to guarantee timely solution of complaints.
