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Tuesday, July 23, 2013

THE BENEFITS FOR SENIOR CITIZENS IN INDIA

I. Transportation:
Ministry of Road Transport and Highways:

i) Reservation of two seats for senior citizens in front row of the buses of the State Road Transport Undertakings.

ii) Some State Governments are giving fare concession to senior citizens in the State Road Transport Undertaking buses and are introducing Bus Models, which are convenient to the elderly.

Under Delhi Transport Corporation:

1. Special Hire Service: - Apart from the normal services, the Corporation also provides buses to the Citizen of Delhi on Special Hire for marriage parties, picnics, etc.

2. Free/Concessional Passes: - DTC also offers Free Passes to disabled persons, war-widows & their dependents, eminent sport personalities, Freedom Fighters etc. and Concessional Passes to various categories of commuters viz. Students, Senior Citizens, Residents of Resettlement Colonies, Journalists, etc.

For Senior citizens above the age of 60 years, Bus pass for all routes at Rs. 50 per month. Income has to be below Rs. 75000 per year.

Ministry of Railways:

1. Indian Railways provide 30% concession in all classes and trains including Rajdhani/Shatabadi trains for both males and females aged 60 years and above.

2. Indian Railways also have the facility of separate counters for Senior Citizens for purchase/booking/cancellation of tickets.

3. Wheel Chairs for use of older persons are available at all junctions, District Headquarters and other important stations for the convenience of needy persons including the older persons.

4.. Ramps for wheel chairs movement are available at the entry to important stations.

5. Specially designed coaches with provisions of space for wheel chairs, hand rail and specially designed toilet for handicapped persons have been introduced.

Ministry of Civil Aviation:

1. Indian Airlines is providing 50 per cent Senior Citizen Discount on Normal Economy Class fare for all domestic flights to Indian senior citizens who have completed the age of 65 years in the case of male senior citizens and 63 years in the case of female senior citizens subject to certain conditions.

2. Air India is offering discount of 55% to senior citizens of 60 plus on flights to USA, UK and Europe on economy class. Further, Air India has now decided to reduce the age of 60 plus for discount on their domestic routes as well with immediate effect. For Identity card, 2 passport sized photographs have to be submitted along with the form.

3. Sahara Airlines is offering 50% discount on basic fare for travel on its domestic flights only to senior citizens who have attained the age of 62 years. Discount is applicable in economy class only.

4. Kingfisher Airlines offers discount in Business class only for citizens of 65 years or above on sectoral basis. Age proof required.

5. Jetlite offers a discount of 50% on economy class for citizens of 65 years or above. One passport sized photograph required on the form along with age proof.

6. Jet Airways offers discount to senior citizens of 65 years or above.

For availing discount in domestic flights, senior citizens have to fill up a discount form along with a passport sized photograph and Age proof certificate. Jet Airways also provides Senior Citizen I-Card which is available in all ticket counters and requires 2 passport sized photographs and age proof certificate. For the I-Card a very nominal amount is charged.

II. Telecommunications:

i) Faults/complaints of senior citizens are given priority by registering them under senior citizens category with VIP flag, which is a priority category.

ii) Senior citizens are allowed to register telephone connection under N-OYT Special Category, which is a priority category.
iii) MTNL in NCR offers a discount of 25% on Rs. 250 per month Plan. Age limit is 65 years or above.

III. Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution:

i) Under the Antyodaya Scheme, the Below Poverty Line (BPL) families which also include older persons are provided food grains at the rate of 35 kgs. per family per month. The food grains are issued @ Rs.3/- per kg. for rice and Rs.2/- per kg. for wheat. The persons aged 60 years above from the BPL category were given priority for identification.

(ii) Under the Annapoorna Scheme being implemented by the States/UT Administration, 10 kgs. of food grains per beneficiary per month are provided free of cost to those senior citizens who remain uncovered under the old age pension scheme.

iii) Instructions to State Governments for giving priority to the Ration Card holders who are over 60 years of age in Fair Price Shops for issue of rations.

IV. Ministry of Health & Family Welfare:

1. Separate queues for elderly persons in hospitals for registration and clinical examination.

2. Special Clinics, every Sunday between 10 am to 12 noon, for elderly persons available at the following hospitals in New Delhi.

a) Lok Nayak Hospital
b) GTB Hospital
c) Deen Dayal Upadhyay Hospital
d) Aruna Asafjahan Ali Hospital
e) Sanjay Gandhi Memorial Hospital
f) Dr. Joshi Memorial Hospital
g) Babu Jagjeevan Ram Hospital
h) Ram Rao Tula Memorial Hospital
i) Lal Bahadur Shastri Hospital

The services include health check-ups, operations, treatment of physically invalid, gynecology, ENT and ophthalmology along with pathological and radio therapy facilities.

V. Income Tax (Ministry of Finance):

1. For senior citizens the exemption limit is Rs. 2,50,000 up to which senior citizen pays no income-tax at all. The benefit of higher exemption limit for a senior citizen is available only when a person has completed 60 years of age.

2. The senior citizen should also take full advantage of section 80C of the Income Tax Act, 1961 whereby deduction up to Rs. 1.00 lakh is available for investment by way of insurance premium, repayment of the housing loan or investment in Senior Citizens Savings Scheme as also the Bank Fixed Deposit.

3. Similarly as also the Bank Fixed Deposit. Similarly, the citizen can also take advantage of the Mediclaim Policy. In case senior citizen or any member of his family suffers from serious medical problem of suffers from some disability he can claim certain other deductions under the tax law.

VI. MINISTRY OF SOCIAL & EMPLOYEMENT

1. Ministry of Social Justice & Empowerment is the nodal Ministry responsible for welfare of the Senior Citizens. It has announced the National Policy on Older Persons which seeks to assure older persons that their concerns are national concerns and they will not live unprotected, ignored and marginalized. The National Policy aims to strengthen their legitimate place in the society and to help older people to live the last phase of their life with purpose, dignity and peace. The National Policy on Older Persons inter alia visualizes support for financial security, health care and nutrition, shelter, emphasis upon education, training and information needs, provision of appropriate concessions, rebates and discounts etc. to Senior Citizens and special attention to protect and strengthen their legal rights such as to safeguard their life and property. The National Policy on Older Persons confers the status of senior citizen to a person who has attained the age of 60 years.

2. The Ministry is also implementing following schemes for the benefit of Senior Citizens:

(a) An Integrated Programme for Older Persons (Plan Scheme) – This Scheme has been formulated by revising the earlier scheme of “Assistance to Voluntary Organizations for Programme relating to the Welfare of the Aged”. Under this Scheme, financial assistance up to 90% of the project cost is provided to NGOs for establishing and maintaining Old Age Homes, Day Care Centers, Mobile Medicare Units and to provide non-institutional services to older persons.

(b) The Scheme of Assistance to Panchayati Raj Institutions/ Voluntary Organizations/Self Help Groups for Construction of Old Age Homes/Multi-Service Centers for older persons (Non Plan Scheme) - Under this Scheme, one time construction grant for Old Age Homes/Multi-Service Centre is provided to non-governmental organizations on the recommendation of the State Governments/ UT Administrations.

VII. Ministry of Rural Development:

1. Under the National Old Age Pension Scheme, Central Assistance of Rs. 75/- p.m. is granted to destitute older persons above 65 years. This Scheme has been transferred to the State Plan w.e.f. 2002-03.

2. Under the Annapurna Scheme, free food grains (wheat or rice) up to 10 kg. per month are provided to destitute older persons 65 years or above who are otherwise eligible for old age pension but are not receiving it.

Wednesday, April 24, 2013

Online Services introduced by Govt

INDIAN GOVERNMENTINTRODUCED ONLINE Services

On Politicians

Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich, by promising to protect each from the other.

~Oscar Ameringer, "the Mark Twain of American Socialism."

I offered my opponents a deal: "if they stop telling lies about me, I will stop telling the truth about them".

~Adlai Stevenson, campaign speech, 1952..

A politician is a fellow who will lay down your life for his country.

~Texas Guinan. 19th century American businessman

I have come to the conclusion that politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
~Charles de Gaulle, French general & politician

Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks.

~Doug Larson (English middle-distance runner who won gold medals at the 1924 Olympic Games in Paris, 1902-1981)

We hang petty thieves and appoint the bigger thieves to public office.~Aesop, Greek slave & fable author

Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.~Plato, ancient Greek Philosopher

Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river.~Nikita Khrushchev, Russian Soviet politician

When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become PM; I'm beginning to believe it.~Quoted in 'Clarence Darrow for the Defense' by Irving Stone.

Politicians are people who, when they see light at the end of the tunnel, go out and buy some more tunnel.
~John Quinton, American actor/writer

Sunday, April 21, 2013

Quotes About Stupidity

Quotes About Stupidity

"Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by
stupidity."
*-Anonymous*

"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm
not sure about the former."
*-Albert Einstein*

"Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and
consciencious stupidity."
*-Martin Luther King, Jr.*

"Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education."
*-Bertrand Russell*

"Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change."
*-Confucius*

"The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the
intelligent are full of doubt."
*-Bertrand Russell*

"Success in almost any field depends more on energy and drive than it does
on intelligence. This explains why we have so many stupid leaders."
*-Sloan Wilson*

"A stupid child is ruin to a father, and a wife’s quarreling is a continual
dripping of rain."
*-The Bible: Hebrew, Proverbs 19:13*

"Stupid is as stupid does."
*-Forrest Gump*

"'Stupid as a man,' say the women: 'cowardly as a woman,' say the men.
Stupidity in a woman is unwomanly."
*-Friedrich Nietzsche*

"The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naïve forgive and forget; the
wise forgive but do not forget."
*-Thomas Szasz*

"When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares
that it is his duty."
*-George Bernard Shaw*

"To be stupid and selfish and to have good health are the three
requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, the others are
useless."
*-Gustave Flaubert*

"Sure the people are stupid: the human race is stupid. Sure Congress is an
inefficient instrument of government. But the people are not stupid enough
to abandon representative government for any other kind, including
government by the guy who knows."
*-Bernard Devoto*

"There is no cure for stupid wives and willful children."
*-Chinese proverb*

"A clever wife often sleeps with a stupid husband."
*-Chinese proverb*

"Unless one pretends to be stupid and deaf, it is difficult to be a
mother-in-law or father-in-law."
*-Chinese proverb*

"The ugly and the stupid have the best of it in this world. They can sit at
their ease and gape at the play. If they know nothing of victory, they are
at least spared the knowledge of defeat."
*-Oscar Wilde*

"You even called me stupid in your verse, and I’m almost agreeing, for
where stupidity is involved, you are quite an expert, friend."
*-Franz Grillparzer*

"Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the
noblest motives."
*-Oscar Wilde*

"One always has the idea of a stupid man as perfectly healthy and ordinary,
and of illness as making one refined and clever and unusual."
*-Thomas Mann*

"The only thing that ever consoles man for the stupid things he does is the
praise he always gives himself for doing them."
*-Oscar Wilde*

"I had rather be an oyster than a man, the most stupid and senseless of
animals."
*-George Berkeley*

"It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid."
*-George Bernard Shaw*

"We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands
the wise is wise already."
*-G.C. Lichtenberg*

"There are only two races on this planet-the intelligent and the stupid."
*-John Fowles*

"Between a fellow who is stupid and honest and one who is smart and
crooked, I will take the first. I won’t get much out of him, but with that
other guy I can’t keep what I’ve got."
*-Gen Lewis B Hershey, Director, Selective Service System*

"One must be a little foolish, if one does not want to be even more stupid."
*-Michel de Montaigne*

"I like to think of my behavior in the sixties as a 'learning experience.'
Then again, I like to think of anything stupid I’ve done as a 'learning
experience.' It makes me feel less stupid."
*-P.J. O’Rourke*

"Only in Britain could it be thought a defect to be 'too clever by half.'
The probability is that too many people are too stupid by three-quarters."
*-John Major*

"You have to believe in God before you can say there are things that man
was not meant to know. I don’t think there’s anything man wasn’t meant to
know. There are just some stupid things that people shouldn’t do."
-David Cronenberg*

Kid's reply..

Children Are Quick and Always Speak Their Minds
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TEACHER: Maria, go to the map and find North America .
MARIA: Here it is.
TEACHER: Correct. Now class, who discovered America ?
CLASS: Maria.
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TEACHER: John, why are you doing your math multiplication on the floor?
JOHN: You told me to do it without using the tables.
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TEACHER: Glenn, how do you spell 'crocodile?'
GLENN: K-R-O-K-O-D-I-A-L'
TEACHER: No, that's wrong
GLENN: Maybe it is wrong, but you asked me how I spell it.

(I Love this child)
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TEACHER: Donald, what is the chemical formula for water?
DONALD: H I J K L M N O.
TEACHER: What are you talking about?
DONALD: Yesterday you said it's H to O.
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TEACHER: Winnie, name one important thing we have today that we didn't have ten years ago.
WINNIE: Me!
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TEACHER: Glen, why do you always get so dirty?
GLEN: Well, I'm a lot closer to the ground than you are.
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TEACHER: Millie, give me a sentence starting with ' I. '
MILLIE: I is...
TEACHER: No, Millie...... always say, 'I am.'
MILLIE: All right... 'I am the ninth letter of the alphabet'
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TEACHER: George Washington not only chopped down his father's cherry tree, but also admitted it. Now, Louie, do you know why his father didn't punish him?
LOUIS: Because George still had the axe in his hand......
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TEACHER: Now, Simon , tell me frankly, do you say prayers before eating?
SIMON: No sir, I don't have to, my Mom is a good cook.
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TEACHER: Clyde , your composition on 'My Dog' is exactly the same as your brother's.. Did you copy his?
CLYDE : No sir, It's the same dog.

(I want to adopt this kid!!!)
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TEACHER: Harold, what do you call a person who keeps on talking when people are no longer interested?
HAROLD: A teacher