Question : Welfare Schemes for Senior Citizens and Divyangs

(a) the facilities being provided by the public and private sector to the senior citizens and divyangs in the country at present;

(b) the norms laid down by the Government to set up facilities and provide quality services to the senior citizens by the private sector; and

(c) the welfare schemes being implemented by the Government for the upliftment of elderly persons, divyangs and backward classes?

MINISTER OF STATE FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE AND EMPOWERMENT
(SHRI VIJAY SAMPLA)
(a): This information on services provided by public and private sector is not maintained in this Department.

(b): No norms have been laid down by the Department in this respect.


(c): Welfare Schemes being implemented by the Government to senior citizens, divyangs and backward classes are annexed at Annexure-A.

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