Call The Senior Citizens' Helpline 1253 Equal Rights and Dignity for Elders..

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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.

The Following are the facilities being extended through Aasara Identity Card

• 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.