Thursday, November 15, 2018

Please, Don't Make Our Country A Old Age Home.

Parents are the visible God on earth. Their love and affection for their children is immeasurable and unending. They are like candles burning to give light to others. Mahabharata (Nirvana) said 'mother's love weighs more than that of earth and the place of a father is higher than the sky. Upanishads (Corvallis-II) gave utmost first choice to parents saying ' Matrudevobhava, Pitrudevobhava, Acharyadevobhava, Atithidevobhava'. It is clearly envisaged from the above popular quotes that parents deserve our respects and should never be considered as liability.

It is a fact that unlike said above, many parents and old people in our country are leading a life of abuse, humiliation, and isolation. It is estimated that more than 100 million old people exist nowadays in our country. Only 35% of them have some financial background and supportive children. The rest 65% who are from economically weaker sections, without proper education and support on their behalf, are leading most wretched lives. Being considered as liability and thought to be thrown out to streets in destitution. Simply to say in clear terms,  they are nothing but orphans or neglected, who awaits death! However, irrespective of the financial status, many parents and old people from all walks of life are facing abuse in one form or the other. After marriages, parent-children relationship is becoming still worse. The need physical and emotional support of their children in the fag end of their lives. Don't make them feel neglected.

Many Indians after completing their education have been going abroad with good intention to secure high earning job and settling there, if possible obtaining citizenship of that country. Of course, this matter needs a lot of debate and this is not the proper platform to go deep into the merit and demerit aspects of this issue. Despite arguments both ways, the painful question is " What is the fate of the old parents and who will take care of them, when their children go abroad and settle there?'. Is money everything for them than parents? With whom they share their joy and troubles? It is pity to see that the retired and old are being made an employee or something inferior even to that. The services of their left over old parents in the country are being best utilized to keep watch and ward of their properties and belongings, collecting rents, managing bank accounts, dealing with, reacting and responding to litigation if any etc. Could old parents be so much dynamic in their late age?

In order to avoid frustration and untold miseries to the old parents and other aged people, Governments should implement some measures such as including some additional questionnaire in the format of applications for passports
such as 1. would you have aged parents to look after? 2. Would you propose to stay abroad for long? 3. Who would take care of your parents in your absence? What is the present health position of your parents? Suggestions of the Reg. Medical practitioner. Governments should be very strict in dealing with requests to go outside the country. Actions should be taken to make necessary legislative enactments in this regard. It is necessary to have an act protecting the interests and welfare of the old, along with punishments to the offenders. Also, Governments should start a separate 'Ministry For The Old And Aged' clearly envisaging and enacting the modes operand i of the concerned rules and regulations. All these are very necessary and essential not to make our country' a land of neglected old and retired people'.

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