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Women Population above 60 Years of Age
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....omen Population above 60 Years of Age <br>News and Press Release<br>Dated:- 3-12-2010<br><BR>While benefits from various welfare schemes/programmes can be accessed by women above 60 years of age, subject to their meeting laid down conditions under the respective scheme/programme, the Government has taken a number of specific initiatives for the benefit of older persons irrespective of their gender....
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...., such as:- The National Policy on Older Persons was announced in 1999 which envisages State's support to ensure financial & food security, health care, shelter and other needs of older persons to improve the quality of their lives. This, inter-alia, includes giving special consideration to widows in the matter of settlement of benefit accruing to them on the demise of their husband. The Mainten....
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....ance and Welfare of Parents and Senior Citizens Act, 2007 was enacted on 31stDecember, 2007 which, among other things, provides for maintenance of parents and senior citizens by children/relatives, establishment of Old Age Homes, provision of adequate medical care & protection of life and property of senior citizens. Under the Central Sector Scheme of Integrated Programme for Older Persons, fina....
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....ncial assistance is given to voluntary organizations for running and maintenance of old age homes, mobile medical units etc. for the destitute senior citizens and for setting up of Multi Facility Care Centre for Older Widow Women to provide full time shelter, care, training in income generating activities, conduct of religious programmes, yoga etc. to older widows. The Income Tax Act, 1961 provi....
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....des higher basic exemption of Rs.1.90 lakh for the resident women tax payers. In case of any resident individual tax payer of 65 years or more, the basic exemption is even higher at Rs.2.40 lakh irrespective of the gender. The Indian Railways grants concession in fare to senior citizens of minimum 60 years, travelling for any purpose. The percentage element of concession for women is 50% while i....
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....t is 30% for men. In addition, the National Aviation Company of India Ltd. offers a concession of 50% on the normal published fare in economy class to women of 63 years and above for travel on domestic sectors. Under Indira Gandhi National Widow Pension Scheme (IGNWPS) that was launched in February, 2009, widow pension @ Rs. 200/- per month is provided to BPL widows in the age group of 40-64 yea....
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....rs. The State-wise number of BPL widows getting pension is given as under: Sl.lNo. Name of States/UTs Estimated number under IGNWPS No. of beneficiaries Reported under IGNWPS 1 2 3 4 1 Andhra Pradesh 276314 393945 2 Bihar 385547 211585 3 Chhattisgarh 156038 95433 4 Goa 5101 5 Gujarat 128983 6 Haryana 31202 46972 7 Himachal Pradesh 10071 7957 8 J & K 4730 4....
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....620 9 Jharkhand 182707 182707 10 Karnataka 295476 325000 11 Kerala 109764 34244 12 Madhya Pradesh 304747 225085 13 Maharashtra 486058 160400 14 Orissa 306923 306923 15 Punjab 22584 13672 16 Rajasthan 155409 52057 17 Tamilnadu 357014 357014 18 Uttar Pradesh 584781 1121500 19 Uttarakhand 56179 9824 20 West Bengal 393447 355183 21 Arunachal Pradesh 2....
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....535 22 Assam 91326 23 Manipur 4675 4676 24 Meghalaya 5808 6749 25 Mizoram 1192 1192 26 Nagaland 2551 2551 27 Sikkim 994 333 28 Tripura 10605 26559 29 A&N Islands 1007 4568 30 Chandigarh 597 2977 31 D&N Haveli 902 32 Daman & Diu 297 43 33 NCT Delhi 22525 25913 34 Lakshadweep 184 35 Pondicherry 6018 16945 Total 4404289 3996627 This informati....
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....on was given by Smt. Krishna Tirath, Minister of State for Women and Child Development in a written reply to a question in the Lok Sabha today.<BR> News - Press release - PIB....