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Udupi: Atrocities on senior citizens – District administration holds awareness programme

  •   Sat, May 23 2020 01:53:10 PM

Daijiworld Media Network – Udupi (KR/EP)

Udupi, May 23: “Complaints of atrocities are being received repeatedly from senior citizens on them. Udupi district administration is bound for their safety. Out of 133 complaints received in the helpline number at Udupi DSP’s office maintained by the government, 109 cases are disposed of through the personal advisor of the center and justice board,” said Udupi district senior citizen’s welfare officer, Chandra Naik.

Solutions by the district administration: “The petty quarrels that begin for the family property by the family members escalate till assaults on helpless senior citizens. The personal advisor at the center calls both the members of the family and senior citizens and tries to sort out the disputes. Legal suggestions from the negotiator appointed by the district administration are obtained whenever necessary. If the problem does not solve, investigations are held in the justice board formed under senior citizen’s nutrition and protection Act and imparted justice.”

Who can complain: “Complaints can be registered by the senior citizens if their fixed or movable property is looted, if they are harassed without food and medicine and sent out of their houses as those will be considered as atrocities. There are complaints that senior citizens are unaware of the appropriate legal Acts even after 13 years since those were formed. They can contact helpline number 1090 or contact the office of the human rights foundation office situated at Udupi’s Vaikunta Baliga Legal Institute.”

“Discussions were held on the subject in detail in the recent meeting chaired by the deputy commissioner. The DC has directed to hold awareness programmes in this connection at taluk level and panchayat level. Dr Ravindranath Shanbhog, the negotiator appointed by the district administration will give details of the Act in the meeting.

There are also complaints of unauthorized old age homes cheating senior citizens. A meeting will be held under the leadership of the SP of all the old age homes in this connection,” said Chandra Naik.
  

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  • sweeney, Palimar - 574112

    Sun, Sep 12 2021

    we had purchased the house in Mangalore -Udupi- Palimar some time back, its only in the last one year that my parents have permanently shifted here. My parents are aged above 70 years with multiple health issues including heart ailment, high blood pressure and my dad is suffering from acute arthritis owing to which he is mostly home-bound. We live in a city and the main reason to buy this house was to give our parents mental peace and a good environment. Alas, all this is a failure. Our front door neighbours have a full-fledged carpentry division which has constant noise from 9 in the morning to around 6 in the evening which my parents are unable to tolerate. My mother has already raised this issue several times to the person concerned but it has resulted in hardly stoppage or work for a day or two. Due to this constant noise, my mother’s hypertension suddenly amplified, and she had to take extra medication for the same. As you are also aware that such commercial activities are not allowed in residential places, you are requested to urgently intervene to safeguard the health of my parents. Moreover, the neighbor on the right hand side has threatened my parents in our absence. The bamboo trees of his land have overgrown and all the shoots are falling on our side of the land thus stunting the growth of our newly planted trees. When he was requested to clear the bamboo shoots, he has threatened my senior citizen parents that he will barge in and cut the trees from our land. It is very sad that senior citizens are being harassed for no reason. Owing to our employment commitments, neither me nor my siblings are able to stay with my parents at palimar at long stretches of time. You are humbly requested to intervene and sort out the issues with both the set of neighbours

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  • K.Prakashchandra, Karkala Town

    Fri, Jul 02 2021

    I am having SB account in Canara Bank ( formerly Syndicate bank ) , AS Road Karkala Town , and the account number is 0114 203 000 1421 . Now they have disabled online payments with my ATM card and forced me to pay electricity ,water bills standing in queue . On contacting ,they advised me to resort to private apps which are equally useless as their own app Candi . Complaint to their grievance wing did not help

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