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Aasara (Senior Citizens Welfare Programme) has
started functioning from 30th August, 2007. Under the supervision
of Commissioner & Special Officer, GHMC and inaugurated Aasara
Call Centre-1253 with a great vision to extend the services to the
Senior Citizens and to provide a sustainable organizations of their
own to evolve suitable processes. The Call Centre is functioning
with the support of HelpAge India as a nodal agency. Identity cum
Privilege cards are being issued to the senior citizens after duly
obtaining information in the prescribed format along with age, residential
proof, and two passphort size photos. Nearly 22,000 are proudly
carrying these ID cards in the city of Hyderabad. Numbers of camps
are going on all over the city, including in old and interior places
and slum areas for health check up, eye testing, blood camps, supply
of spectacle,Wheel Chairs etc. |
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The Following are the facilities being extended through Aasara Identity Card |
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| • Free entry into parks for activities like yoga,
pranayama etc. • Provide preference for the Senior Citizens in public places/GHMC service center • Conducting medical camps for Senior Citizens. • Establishment of Day Care Centers for the Senior Citizens. • Encouraging voluntary services to provide various support services to Senior Citizens. • Providing counseling for the needy. • Arranging wheelchairs in parks and GHMC office. • Solving the issues through the helpline on priority basis. • Facilitating Old Age Pensions (OAP) as per Government forms • Providing police protection. • Medical concession through IMA and APNA. • Shelter assistance in home for elderly. |
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| Sri Koneru Ranga Rao, Minister for Municipal Administration and Urban Development inaugurated Day Care Center at Kalyan Nagar. | Distribution of Upper & Lower limbs through Hon'ble C.M. on 3rd April,2008 | Sri. Praveen Prakash, Special Commissioner, GHMC visite to call center on 31-Oct-2008. |