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RIGHTS OF A SENIOR CITIZEN IN INDIA

It is quite ironic that the country that has educated generations to respect elders in the slightest degree respect} stages face an uncompilable exuberant threat over their question of survival. With the growing modification in dynamics of the family structure i.e., the growing no. of nuclear families, it's return to light-weight the shortage of institutional medical system or community care schemes to support the aged in India. This specific age community faces no. of problematic things like monetary stress, emotional care, emergency in health problems, legal disputes, etcetera The social process of this community may be a reason behind grave concern because it has led to social isolation and rather than living a high quality life, they need to endure the everyday struggle of battling loneliness, isolation, mental state well as physical health issues and creating their ends Thereby legal holiness looks to be their solely relief and obtaining their community acknowledged. Right to measure with dignity: The Uttarakhand state supreme court two-judge bench ordered down many obligatory directions to be abused by the state through the old person Welfare Organization & another v. State of Uttarakhand & Anr.

wherever it's been laid down that it's the duty forged upon the authorities to safeguard the life, liberty, and property together with dignity and decency of old persons. they cannot be allowable to be left unattended within the twilight of their lives. Ours may be a welfare and socialist state and it's expected that each senior citizen ought to sleep in a dignified manner with the help to be provided by the State Government  alongside the institution and maintenance of adulthood homes. Right over immobile property and eviction of abusive children: The state supreme court of Chhattisgarh in Pramod Ranjankar & Anr. v. Arunashankar & ors control whereas permitting the Petitioner’s interim application for eviction opined that the anxiety to prevent the correct of the abuse of old person is to be created effective as otherwise, it'd be a symbolic collapse of the system by not responding to the request or by adhering to the dummy mode by Courts. 

 Whereas the Apex court in Sunny Paul and another v state NCT of Delhi has already control over the senior citizen’s right over immobile property. Right to the upkeep of recent widows: The court through Narayanarao Rama Pant V. Ramabai known the necessity and thus ordered down the right to maintenance of recent widows Right to maintenance: The court altered the Hindu family through Kirtikant D. Vadodaria v. the State of Gujarat and set a benchmark that regardless of being a son or a daughter, old and infirm oldsters are entitled to maintenance, the sole disengagement was that it absolutely was restricted only Hindu family structure.