Some assembly elections are due this year and all parties will try to give sops and freebies to the population below 60 years and especially to 60 per cent younger population of the country which is necessary. In European countries, elderly citizens get doles for their sustenance and health is covered including any surgery but in India after the age of 70, the senior citizens are not eligible for driving licence, no jobs are offered, no Mediclaim, loan EMI , some are left begging, but he has paid all taxes and some are still paying income tax. Do the senior citizens who are not dependent on anybody in their life need to justify all taxes paid in their younger days? Government spends crores of rupees on irrelevant schemes and waves of huge loans to business houses but never plans any relief for needy senior citizens of the country. What a tragedy to be a senior citizen of this country. Hope and pray that the government looks into the problems of needy senior citizens at least if not all the senior citizens.
