Helpline for senior citizens to be fully functional by May end
The Hindu
‘Elderline’ has already started in U.P., M.P., Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu and Karnataka, says Social Justice Ministry.
The Social Justice Ministry said on Monday its helpline for senior citizens, Elderline, would be fully operational by the end of May, having already started in some States so far. “To address the problems of the elders in the context of the pandemic, the Ministry has started Statewise call centres in major States under the Elderline project,” it said. It said the facility had been made operational in Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu and Karnataka, with 475 calls received since April 28. In U.P., the call centre started on May 14. It said Telangana already had this facility for over a year.
On December 23, the newly elected office bearers of the Anna Nagar Towers Club, led by its president ‘Purasai’ B. Ranganathan, who is a former MLA, met with Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M. K. Stalin and conveyed their greetings. According to a press release, besides, ‘Purasai’ B. Ranganathan, the Anna Nagar Towers Club delegation that met Stalin at Anna Arivalayam, the DMK Party headquarters, included vice-president R. Sivakumar, secretary R. Muralibabu, joint secretary D. Manojkumar, treasurer K. Jayachandran and executive committee members N. D. Avinash, K. Kumar, N. R. Madhurakavi, K. Mohan, U. Niranjan, S. Parthasarathi, K. Rajasekar, S. Rajasekar, M. S. Ramesh, R. Satheesh, N. C. Venkatesan and K. Yuvaraj. Karthik Mohan, deputy secretary of DMK’s Information Technology Wing, was present on the occasion.












