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Year 4, Vol. 8

Voice of Senior Citizens

August 2014 Chief Editor

Mr. Krishna M. Gautam

Assist. Editor Mr.Ashish T. Magar

Mr. Prakash K.C.

AGEING

IN NEPAL PRESS

Social Support Social Security

Rights Elder Abuse

Neglect Elders in Crime

Feature

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Voice of Senior Citizens Year 4, vol. 8 August 2014

Website: www.ageingnepal.org Email: [email protected]

AGEING IN NEPALI PRESS

July 1-31

SOCIAL SUPPORT

Senior Citizens Felicitated

Three programs were organized to felicitate senior citizens in July 2014. Details are given below:

S.N. No. of elders

felicitated

Age Sex Address By Whom Where When Source

1. 133 60+ NA Bajura District health office

Bajura 11 Annapurna Post

2. 80 60+ NA Bajura District health office

Bajura 12 Nepal Samacharpatra

3. 42 79+ NA Kapilvastu Shivagadhi VDC

Kapilvastu 17 Nepal Samacharpatra

Note: NA = Not Available

CPN-Maoist's Solidarity With The Senior Citizens' Agitation

Nepal Samacharpatra Kathmandu, July 22, 2014

Chairman of CPN-Maoist Mr. Mohan Baidhya said that his

party would take to the street to support the prolong agitation

launched by the senior citizens. During a meeting with the

agitating senior citizens, the communist leader warned to launch

street demonstrations to exert pressure on the government to

meet the genuine demands put forth by the senior citizens



Pashupati Old Age HomeTo Be Shifted

Kantipur Kathmandu, July 1, 2014

The government is preparing to shift the Pashupati-based

old age home to Gothatar. Women, Children and Social Welfare

Minister Ms. Nilam Khadka informed that as the old age home is

too old and in the verge of collapse, the government will shift it to

Gothatar by building a new old age home there

Support Provided

Construction of a new OAH started in Ilam

S.N Name of OAH

Address Effort made by

Activity Status Date Source

1. OAH Illam Political leader

OAH construction

Started 19 Nepal Samacharpatra

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SOCIAL SECURITY

VDC Secretary's Monopoly In Social Security

Allowance Nepal Samacharpatra Dhading, July 3, 2014

Hom Maya Ghale of Tipling VDC here still doesn’t know how much social security allowance she receives every year. Sometimes she receives the allowance from the VDC secretary, while other times from political party representatives. Because the task to distribute the allowance in the VDC has been divided among the political parties and the VDC staffs, there arises contradiction in amount of money they distribute in most of the time. They sometimes give her Rs. 2000 in a year and sometimes Rs. 3,000. Likewise, there is no practice of registering the death of any recipients and the allowance allocated in the name of the deceased goes into the pocket of the VDC secretary and the local party leaders.

Massive Irregularities In Social Security Allowance

Nepal Samacharpatra/Annapurna Post Parbat, July 11, 2014

The VDC secretaries of Parbat district have been found embezzling social security allowance to the maximum. Most VDC secretaries do not update recipient list with an ill intention of making a fast buck. From the investigation, it was found that 349 recipients were fake. The secretaries have issued the fourth quarterly allowance to 18,088 individuals, while they had issued the second quarterly allowance to only 12,729 persons.



VDC Secretary Of Parbat Visits Pokhara To Distribute OAA

Annapurna Post Parbat, July 13, 2014

VDC secretary of Arther Dandakharka in Parbat district walks to Pokhara to distribute the social security allowance as many senior citizens of the VDC migrated to nearby town, Pokhara. According to the secretary Lal Prasad Lamichhane, there are 470 senior citizens in the VDC where in 140 of them live in Pokhara.



Social Security Allowance Money Looted

Kantipur Bajura, July 18, 2014

An unidentified group looted Rs. 2 million cash of social security allowance beating the VDC secretary and other VDC staff when they were heading to Gotri VDC from the district headquarters carrying the money. Up on hearing the incident news, the senior citizens of Gotri became extremely angry and demanded that they shouldn’t be deprived of the allowance. Police suspected the hands of Bimal Sahi of UCPN-Maoist in the crime.

Rs. 4.5 Million Allowances Distributed

Nepal Samacharpatra Ilam, July 19, 2014

Ilam Municipality has distributed social security allowance of over 4 million Nepalese rupees to the targeted group in the last fiscal year. According to the municipality, among the total beneficiaries (852) receiving the allowance, majority were senior citizens.

Social Allowance A Big Help For the Elderly

Kantipur Doti, July 19, 2014

Elderly people of the district expressed that the social security allowance they have been receiving from the government has been a big help to meet their everyday need. An elderly man Ram BK of Pachnali-2 has even managed to feed his entire family with the money. According to the District Development Committee, there are altogether 24,440 recipients of the social security allowance including senior citizens.



RIGHTS

Transport Entrepreneurs Agree To Provide Fare

Concession To The Senior Citizens Gorkhapatra/Nepal Samacharpatra/Kantipur Bhaktapur, July 12, 2014

The policy provision of 50 percent fare discount for the senior citizens commuting by the public vehicles as well as allocate separate seats to the elderly to be enforced soon in Bhaktapur district. The stakeholders including the transport entrepreneurs agreed to provide senior citizens with the services during an interaction here.

ELDER ABUSE

Cases Of Attempted Murder

Two senior citizens faced abuse in July 2014.

S.N. Name Age Sex Address Reason Culprit Form of abuse

Status Date Source

1. Unknown 71 F

Butwal Raped Neighbors Sexual ND 7 Kantipur

2. Niwar

Ghadi

65 M Kapilvastu Unknown Neighbors Physical D 29 Police Report

Note: D = Dead, ND = Not Dead



Elderly victim of burglary

A total of four senior citizens became victim of burglary in July 2014.

S.N Name Age Sex Robbed for Crime

scene

Date Source

1. Ghangga

Bhadhur Guring

71 M Money + possessions

Kaski 15 Police

report

2. Bishnumaya

Guring

60 F Money + possessions

Kaski 15 Police

report

3. Jeet Bhadhur Ganal

62 M Money + possessions

Lalitpur 17 Police report

4. Karma Sherpa 71 M Money + possessions

Okhald

hunga

31 Police

report

NEGLECT

Unattended Death

Three unattended dead bodies of senior citizens were found in July 2014.

S.N Name Age Sex Address Place of death

Date Source

1. Balkrishna Barahi

62 M Lalitpur Lalitpur 6 Police Report

2. Unknown 60 F Lalitpur Lalitpur 22 Police Report

3. Unknown 75 F Kanchpur Kanchpur 24 Police Report

ELDERS IN CRIME

Following table presents senior citizen found involved in unlawful activities during July 2014.

S.N. Name Age Sex Address Crime involved Date source

1. Jaga Bhadhur Gole

80 M Sarlahi Sexual abuse of minor

18 Police Report



FEATURE

Monthly Salary Rs. 200! Kantipur Sindhupalchok, July 21, 2014

Khil Bahadur Karki, 75, has been working as a guard of a suspension bridge that links Pangretar with Phulpingdanda for 17 years. His monthly salary is only Rs. 200. But this year he was unable to receive salary of entire year due to technical error committed by the District Development Committee staff. The salary of Karki and 16 other guards got frozen as the DDC did not forward their files in time.

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UPCOMING EVENTS

Advocare Incorporated, Australia is

organizing Third National Elder Abuse

Conference, Unlocking Solutions on 3

and 4 of September at Hyatt Regency,

Perth, Western, Australia. For more

details:http://www.elderabuse2014.

com/

17th Asia Pacific Regional Conference

of Alzheimer’s Disease International

will be held on 7 – 9 November at New

Delhi, India. For more information,

visit: http://www.aprc2014-india.com/

International Medical University, Malaysa

is organizing International Conference on

Healthy Ageing 2014 , The conference

held on 20th to 21st October at Bukit Jalil,

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia For more details:

http://imu.edu.my/healthy-ageing/

International Conference on

Healthy Ageing 2014

http://www.elderabuse2014.com/

http://www.elderabuse2014.com/

http://www.aprc2014-india.com/

http://imu.edu.my/healthy-ageing/

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