Kathmandu: Minister for Women, Children and Senior Citizens, Nawal Kishor Sah Sudi, has said senior citizens above 68 years would be provided with social security allowances from coming fiscal year.
Responding to queries related with Ministry in today’s meeting of the House of Representatives, Minister Sudi mentioned that an arrangement is going to be made in order to provide social security allowance to senior citizens above 68 years from coming fiscal year.
On the occasion, he pointed out the need of effective implementation of one-door policy from Social Welfare Council for the mobilization of the assistance received through NGOs.
Minister Sudi added that number of organisations coming under the ambit of Council is increasing after Ministry wrote a letter to Nepal Rastra Bank requesting it to facilitate the mobilization of funds only for projects that have received approval of the council.
A total of 1,833 projects of 1,324 organisations have been approved till April 13 of the current fiscal year.
The Minister informed the House that people from Dalit community of Shambhunath municipality-3 in Saptari district including Magain Sada and Chandar Sada have not been able to get other facilities of the state including senior citizen allowance even at the age of 72 in lack of citizenship.
Earlier to this, Speaker Devraj Ghimire read out the letter designating work responsibility received from the Office of the Prime Minister and Council of Ministers.