DLSA Jammu launches “Ageing With Dignity” campaign

Jammu: District Legal Services Authority, Jammu, in compliance to the directions of the Chief Justice of J&K High Court, Justice Gita Mittal, Patron-in-Chief’, J&K State Legal Services Authority, Jammu, Wednesday kick started the Campaign “Ageing With Dignity”, in District, Jammu.
The campaign was started under the chairmanship of Chairman, District Legal Services Authority (Pr. District & Sessions Judge) Jammu Vinod Chatterji Koul and under the overall supervision of Secretary, District Legal Services Authority, Jammu, Naushad Ahmed Khan.
The Campaign programs were designed by Mohammad Akram Choudhary, Member Secretary, J&K State Legal Services Authority, Srinagar in collaboration with Anugraha Regional Resource & Training Center on Ageing, to address different challenges being faced by Senior Citizens,.
District Legal Services Authority, Jammu has engaged different Government departments both at the Centre and the State level in the “AGEING WITH DIGNITY” CAMPAIGN, to sensitize and aware the masses especially the elderly group about the various existing schemes developed by their respective departments for addressing the increasing needs and different challenges being faced by the senior citizens, in District Jammu.
As part of the campaign, District Legal Services Authority, Jammu organised a Painting and Slogan Writing Competition on the title Sensitization Program on Fostering Intergenerational Bonding, for the students of Govt. Hr. Secondary School, Marh, Jammu, in collaboration with Education Department. The event was an endeavor to strengthen the integration between generations and to facilitate interaction between the students/youth about the various problems being faced by the elderly people and ways & methods in mitigating them.
The program was attended by a large number of senior citizens of the adjoining area including the grandparents of the students of the school.