The main object of the scheme is to improve the quality of life of the Senior Citizens by providing basic amenities like shelter ,food, medical care and entertainment opportunities and by encouraging productive and active ageing through providing support for capacity building of NGOs.
The number of elderly persons has increased from 1.98 crore in 1951 to 10.38 crore in 2011.
The projections indicate that the number of 60+ in India will increase to 14.3crore in 2021 and 17.3 crore in 2026.
Those helpless men and women who are aged (Over 60 yrs), poor and having none to look after, neither can expect to have drop of water at the time of death, nor can have treatment, for them, approval for one Old Aged Home for such 27 aged males /females ex-leprosy sufferers was received from the Central Govt. in Jan.03.
The Grant-in-aid online application for 2016-2017 has been sent to the Central Govt. through Dist. & State authorities. Many queries have been sent by the above authority. On 22th Nov. 2019, we met with Under Secretary, MOSJE, New Delhi and discussed with him about our various problems to maintain the IPSrC Home smoothly. In this time, as per advise of NITY Aayog through e-mail and we understand that we have to delete our NGO Darpan Unique Id No. WB/2016/0104393 and the reason behind this is miss-match of status, but there should not be any future problem related to above Id. So, we request kindly to delete the Unique Id and put the new PAN Number in our NGO DARPAN for updation . After one month they updated our NGO Darpan. Again thanks to them for consideration. In 12/03/2020, we received grant-in-aid for only two years i.e., 2017-28 & 2018-19 and all other under process.