The real spirit of celebrating citizen’s day lies in respect to elders particularly parents and as such youth are duty bound to celebrate the day on August 21 with the spirit of handholding of their parent. Fortunately Kashmir is a place where senior citizens are held in high esteem as people in this part of the country consider maintenance and welfare of their parents a duty and as well as a responsibility. Since these high social values have become inalienable part of family life in Kashmir the people even don’t think about the need for old age homes run in the other parts of the country. Shockingly rapid social transformation in recent years has generated concerns about the welfare and maintenance of old age people in Kashmir also due to the gradual disintegration of the existing family system in Kashmir. Keeping in view the fact that the no of old age people is rising year after year, the broader troubles confronting the traditional family system of Kashmir have to be identified and subsequently society itself has to take measures to reduce the intensity of disintegration in the traditional family system for the purposes of maintenance and welfare of senior citizens in Kashmir valley. Civil society groups and religious scholars have a central role in keeping a vigil over the rapid social transformation and the intensity of disintegration in the traditional family system in Kashmir valley. Since most of the people growing older are highly educated and tend to spend leisure time in one or the other social activity, building private libraries in residential areas of cities, towns and villages could be the most suitable way of providing elderly people a place for intellectual discourse and physical comfort.
Giving elderly people an opportunity to share their experiences on core public issues like education, health, sanitation, , agriculture farming , tourism and Sports at a place like library would by all standards of understandabilities generate a new vistas in thinking and development of basic socio-economic activities left unattended by political leaders, administrators, academicians, religious scholars and civil society groups so for in Jammu & Kashmir.
People on their own without involvement and intervention of the government can build such private libraries for the old age people. The children and grandchildren of elderly people have to take the initiative which would hopefully get a huge support from both their parents and as well as grandparents. Such libraries if build in Kashmir could also would set a new trend in Kashmir which could be replicated by people in other parts of the country also. Such privatized models of care-giving would be affordable and as well as acceptable to people of all hues and such a healthy trend if made successful would also reduce the concerns of people about the maintenance and welfare of senior citizens in Kashmir. Giving elderly people an opportunity to share their experiences on core public issues like education, health, sanitation, , agriculture farming , tourism and Sports at a place like library would by all standards of understandabilities generate a new vistas in thinking and development of basic socio-economic activities left unattended by political leaders, administrators, academicians, religious scholars and civil society groups so for in Jammu & Kashmir. Such a process of social transformation would ultimately boost the very basic objective of the maintenance and welfare of elderly people in Jammu & Kashmir.
