We all may agree that it's our parents who spend sleepless nights, overtime work pressure, sacrifice on many front to ensure that we all get good education and achieve the growth. We all also know that one day we will go into that category of senior citizens. Indian government in the past did little to no effort to ensure
that our parents live peaceful, healthy & happy life. It's surprising that Indian government still tax senior citizens in a scenario that they generate interest income more than 300K INR. Indian government failed to understand that senior citizen saved that money post paying income tax and taxing them again is nothing but double taxation.
Even more surprising that many
senior citizens suffering from some health issue don't get health insurance.
Some of them are fortunate if their kids gets a corporate cover in which
parents are also covered. What about those senior citizens whose kids are not
working in corporate or government sector.
We Indians live in current
situation and rarely put ourselves in other's shoe to feel the circumstance
they are in. Indian Medical system is extremely expensive and for Senior
citizens without any medical cover it is next to impossible to afford.
Senior citizens to whom I termed
as parents constitute around 35% of population and that is huge percentage. Few
percentage of them are fortunate that they are well off or their kids are
giving the health cover through their organization but majority of parents are
suffering for survival anxiety. We all should realize that one day we will also
be called parents and we all should think proactively to do something for
parents community. We should not differentiate them as my parents or your
parents but should think that they are our parents and its our responsibility
to take care of them.
We generally spend thousands of
bucks in unnecessary things then why can't we contribute some of that towards
parents. I strongly believe that some of the readers must be thinking that I
wrote crap but I am writing to 1.31 billion people of India living in India as
well as abroad to come forward and take care of our parents.
I propose “Parents Fund"
which government should open and every citizen must contribute INR 200 per
annum. If i consider that around 300 millions earning people contribute to that
fund then the fund will have around 38000 Cr or around $6Bn. Even the fixed
deposit of that amount will be around $400 Mn. The fund should be used to help
those parents who are alone, with no earning, no health cover etc. Government
should not include those parents who are availing above mentioned facilities by
their own or through their kids.
The initiative will help our
parents to live peacefully during their retirement life without any worries
about health, food and finance. We all know that worries bring health problem
and the major contributor of worries is financial state of someone.
If reader feel that I am talking
sense then we should collectively make an attempt. We may fail the initiative
but we all should try.
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