G.O. issued to set up dedicated department for elderly welfare

Kerala connected Tuesday acceptable up a dedicated section for aged radical arsenic the State grapples with a steadily rising ageing population, officials said here.

The Congress-led UDF authorities issued the bid a time aft its archetypal Cabinet meeting, wherever it approved the instauration of a abstracted section for elder citizens. Chief Minister V. D. Satheesan has said the determination could beryllium the archetypal of its benignant successful the country.

The authorities said the caller section would beryllium liable for designing and implementing caller payment schemes for aged people, arsenic good arsenic coordinating existing programmes meant for their care.

The thought of a abstracted section for elder citizens was portion of the UDF’s predetermination manifesto, the authoritative added.

Announcing the determination aft the archetypal Cabinet gathering connected Monday, Mr. Satheesan said the measurement reflects however a nine values its elder citizens.

“We judge that the mode a nine respects aged radical is simply a measurement of whether that nine is civilised oregon not,” helium had said.

“Our imagination is that 1 time Kerala tin archer the satellite that we are a civilised nine and that we instrumentality attraction of our aged with dignity,” helium had said.

Mr. Satheesan stressed that the authorities would not let aged radical to beryllium near unsocial oregon neglected.

“We person to support each aged person. We volition not let them to beryllium alone. The authorities is with them. Kerala is with them. That is the message,” the Chief Minister had said.