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Seeking fulfilment of their long-pending demands, including azygous pension rules crossed the country, abstracted Budget for elder citizens and others, elder citizens from crossed the State volition instrumentality retired a protestation march successful Hubballi connected March 24.
Addressing property persons present connected Friday, State president of ‘Karnataka State Senior Citizens and Retired Employees’ Welfare Association’ B.A. Patil said that it had go indispensable for them to instrumentality the way of protestation arsenic their repeated pleas done umpteen memoranda had not been considered by successive governments.
Mr. Patil said that aft the dharna by the associatin during the Winter Session successful Belagavi, Minister Laxmi Hebbalkar had assured to look into the contented and instrumentality decisions successful consultation with officials. However, arsenic thing happened, they approached the Chief Secretary of the State, who successful crook directed the caput of Department of Women and Child Development and Empowerment of Differently Abled and Senior Citizens Shamla Iqbal to look into the issue.
Subsequently, the caput wrote to assorted departments astir implementing orders issued regarding their demands. But till day thing had happened, forcing them to instrumentality the way of agitation, helium said.
He said the fund excessively was disappointing for them arsenic nary of their demands were considered by the Chief Minister and akin was the attraction of the Union authorities connected issues concerning the elder citizens.
He said connected March 24, they would assemble astatine Nehru Stadium earlier opening the protestation march and aft covering the thoroughfares of the city, they would taxable a memorandum to the authorities again.
Office-bearers of the relation D.T. Patil, Lingaraj Angadi, M.P. Kumbar, S.M. Kolur, Dharanendra Javali, Hemagiri Pattanashetti, women’s helping president Sunanda Bennur were present.
