16 th AISCCON Conference, Tirupati

16 th AISCCON Conference, Tirupati, Andhra Pradesh

23rd & 24 th November,2016

Delegate fees:
Up to 3o th September
Delegate fees: Rs 1500/- Distinguished Delegate fees: Rs.2000/-
From 1 st October
Delegate fees: Rs 1800/- Distinguished Delegate fees: Rs.2500/-

Room Tariff:
Dormitory : Rs. 350/- (per night for one person) 3 or more persons in one room/hall
Non-AC Room: Rs. 1000/- (Rs.500/-per night for one person) two persons in a room.
AC Room: Rs. 1600/- (Rs.800/-per night for one person) two persons in a room.

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Bank Transfer ("16th AISCCON NATIONAL CONFERENCE" , S.B.A/c 1413155000118879, IFSC : KVBL0001413 )
Demand Draft in favor of "16th AISCCON NATIONAL CONFERENCE" payable at Vijayawada, Andhra Pradesh

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Special provision for senior citizens in polling

Preetu Nair| TNN | May 13, 2016, 09.48 PM IST

KOCHI: Chief Election Commissioner of India Nasim Zaidi, in response to the letter of Justice Cyriac Joseph, Member, NHRC (dated May 6, 2016), regarding the difficulties faced by the senior citizens in exercise of their vote, has said that "special interventions are being carried out to facilitate the senior citizens, who want to exercise their franchise".

Zaidi said that there are standing instructions of ECI for a separate queue at the polling stations, primarily for the senior citizens and physically challenged persons. Instructions have also been issued to give priority/precedence to senior citizens, infirm voters and women with babies over other voters in the queue, wherever separate queues are not provided for. "Also provision of Help Desk has been made in the polling station locations to assist the voters," he added.

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/kochi/Special-provision-for-senior-citizens/articleshow/52259962.cms

Senior citizens are getting married and NO they are not embarrassed!

IANS | Jun 21, 2016, 12.27 PM IST

Age is no bar for senior citizens to marry for the first time or re-marry to have company for the rest of their life, especially in old age, as evident from the good response to a matrimonial meet held here on Sunday for elders.

"About 250 senior citizens above 50-60 years, including 150 men and 100 women came to the match-making event here. We are moved by the response, as senior citizens, including single, widowed or divorced came in search of a companion," Anubhandana Foundation member Bharatbhai Patel told reporters here on Monday.

Admitting that having company in old age is a major social problem for the senior citizens, living alone or away from children, Patel said the Ahmedabad-based foundation had been organising such events in a few cities across the country to enable elderly people find a suitable companion and lead a meaningful life.

"Though the response this time has been 50 less than the 300 when the event was hosted here for the first time in January 2014, the participants have come from other parts of Karnataka, including Mangaluru, Hubballi, Mysuru and Raichur," Patel recalled. The oldest person among men was 78 years and among women it was a woman of 55 years.

Among the participants, about 10 got engaged at the venue and a dozen agreed to meet again to decide on when to tie the knot. Several others registered their details with the foundation to help them find a suitable companion from its database in other cities.

"Nuclear families, career pursuits and changing lifestyle have been disrupting the life of senior citizens as their sons and daughters leave them behind after education on getting jobs or on getting married and then they live separately in the same city or other cities in India or abroad," Patel said.

While the majority of senior citizens belonging to the middle class are financially sound or self-sufficient, it is loneliness or lack of company that makes them marry again even from other communities, cutting across social barriers of caste and creed.

"We are doing our best to ensure single citizens get a compatible person to live with them in the evening of their life and help each other in old age. More than money, it's care and love that matters the most in old age for such citizens, who live on their own or away from their kin," Patel noted.

"Besides facilitating the coming together of aged citizens, we provide counselling service and assist the re-married couple to register their names and other details at their respective marriage bureaus in the sub-registrar offices.

According to foundation secretary Gouri Shankar, the not-for-profit organisation provides a platform for senior citizens to meet, interact and decide whom to choose as a partner and how soon they would like to live together.

Regretting that more and more elderly people were being left to fend themselves or neglected by their kin, human rights activist Uday Kumar said not many children of the present generation cared for their ageing parents, irrespective of their status -- divorced or widowed.

"As leading a lonely life in old age is worrisome, I am glad the foundation had organised the matrimonial event to meet my future partner," said M. Shankarappa, one of the participants.

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/life-style/relationships/man-woman/Senior-citizens-are-getting-married-and-NO-they-are-not-embarrassed/articleshow/52847932.cms?

Thikana Shimla is going to organise a SENIOR CITIZEN MATRIMONIAL MEET (Prabin Swambhara) on 1st Dec, 2016, from 1 pm to 5 pm at Calcutta Sports Journalists' Club, Maidan Tent, Kolkata with kind assistance of Anubandh foundation, Ahemedabad. Interested people please contact: 93308 43394, 89020 43394, 70444 43394, WhatsApp: 83349 46296  

Now, senior citizens can keep pension accounts in private banks

TNN | Aug 10, 2016, 12.27 AM IST

Lucknow: In a decision that would help lakhs of senior citizens, the UP government has allowed them the option of holding their pension account in private banks as well. Principal secretary, finance, Rahul Bhatnagar, told TOI that a long-pending demand of senior citizens had been fulfilled with this decision taken on Tuesday. "It is the first time this facility has been extended to government pensioners," Bhatnagar added.

There are estimatedly 7.50 lakh pensioners of whom five lakh are employees of the state government, including 2 lakh teachers and 50,000 of the all-India services, who could so far hold pension accounts only in nationalised banks, as per Schedule I of Reserve Bank of India.

Because of excess burden on nationalised banks, pensioners had to face hardship withdrawing their monthly pension. They had mounted pressure on the state government to let them avail of private banks' services.

Amid cut-throat competition in the banking sector in the country post economic reforms, private banks are not only offering better customer care services, they are also providing many lucrative schemes to account holders that could also give an added advantage to the elderly in opening pension account with them.

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/noida/Now-senior-citizens-can-keep-pension-accounts-in-private-banks/articleshow/53624411.cms

Our appeal: West Bengal Govt. should take such step.