Monday, December 6, 2010

Senior citizens celebrate Intl Day for the Elderly

Senior citizens celebrate Intl Day for the Elderly
Senior Citizen Welfare Association, Sector 29 Vashi celebrated the International Day for the Elderly on October 1 at the Senior Citizens Day Care Centre in Rajiv Gandhi Park.
KR Singhal, general secretary of the association expressed "The number of senior citizens in our association is increasing day by day. This is mainly due to awareness and change in mental set up. Moreover, good concern is shown for senior citizens by the state, central and local governments by providing reservation of seats in buses, concessions in medical treatments by few hospitals, separate queues for railway booking, etc."
Senior citizens also wrote messages like 'Be positive in your words and deeds', 'Increase in your age is a plus point and not minus one', etc.
Association president BR Agarwal, Vice Chairmen Kesar Singh and K N Nayak , members KS Bajaj, Mahendra Vig, retired chief engineer, Reliance SV Agarwal, Shreelalchand Agarwal and others were present on the occasion.

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