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Senior Citizens Picketing Department Of Transport In Kathmandu
By KTM Metro Reporter
June 5, 2013: senior citizens have been picketing the Department of Transport at Ekantakuna in Lalitpur demanding the government enforce the provision made in the law for the reservation of seats for the senior citizens on the public transport vehicles, demanding to correct the inconsistency between the law and the methodology developed by the Local Development Ministry, and demanding to increase the monthly allowance from the current meager Rs 500 to Rs 3,000 a month.
Senior citizens said that Rs 300 per month was not enough for even drinking tea for a month. They have been demanding to increase the monthly allowance to Rs 3,000 so that they could live humanely.
They also have demanded the inconsistency between the law that says any Nepalis reaching 60 years of age is senior citizen and is qualified for receiving the public pension and the methodology developed by the local development ministry that says any Nepalese citizen has to reach 70 years to qualify for the public pension. Senior citizens demand to annul the methodology that contradict with the law.
They have been demanding the government to enforce the provision made in the law for the reservation of seats on the public transport vehicles but the government has not been listening to the senior citizens. The home minister rather sent the riot police to repress the senior citizens that have valid demands.
