Senior citizens resent delay in providing land for their home

Kuldip Bhatia

Ludhiana, November 25

The Rajguru Nagar Senior Citizens’ Welfare Association has expressed its serious concern over the delay in allotment of land for the Senior Citizens’ Home (day care centre) in the colony, developed by Ludhiana Improvement Trust (LIT).

At a meeting of the body held with SS Aulakh in the chair, the senior citizens express their resentment against the political leadership of all hues who had made tall promises of constructing a senior citizens bhawan in the colony during the past seven years. The bureaucracy (read officials of LIT) were also castigated for their indifferent attitude to the elderly citizens.

The meeting recalled that during the previous SAD-BJP government, promises were made by the ruling alliance that land would be allotted and a building would be constructed by LIT for setting up a day care cantre for senior citizens. Similarly, the Congress leaders had also made promises in this regard but nothing practical had been done so far.

The senior citizens attending the meeting also lamented that a grant of Rs 25 lakh promised by the Ludhiana MP Ravneet Singh Bittu had also failed to materialise till now.

There was general consensus and even indignation among the members on poor state of the roads in the colony and poor sanitary conditions. “All streets are not cleaned daily and proper arrangement for lifting/disposal of garbage are non-existent. Not only this, the sewerage network remains choked,” observed the senior citizens while making an earnest appeal to the LIT authorities as well as to the area councillor to take remedial measures immediately.