Age discrimination in India

Thanks,Kavitha for refferal,The descrimination is percieved to be around every one.This is an integral component of human psychology,one learns when,you face the heat.Mr Vijay must forget all these things as retired person losses much more than a pay check.He losses a sense of power and accomplishment and a loss of personal identity that is difficult to replace late in life. Mr Vijay,Enjoy retired life without rancour.

not only age, but India is epicentre of discrimination, be it between light brown/dark brown; women/men;north/south/north east; languages-indian vs english.. we undermine our own national languages; I have yet to see such kind of behaviour after practically working in west/south east/east asia/african etc parts of the world... so  there we are...south asian race... reasons??? .. for ages....but 'am hopeful of our younger generation..

AGE DISCRIMINATION IN INDIA

 Majority of our parliamentarians are senior citizens but senior citizens are discriminated against in this country.

 There are housing loan schemes for young people even if their job security is not guaranteed but a pensioner whose pension is secured will not get a housing loan because he is overage.

 As a banker I know that the income of pensioner is more secure than a younger person in employment because an employed person can be jobless tomorrow and he might not have any other source of income.

 The Government has come out with a scheme of REVERSE MORTGAGE which is for the senior citizens without any income though I doubt if any banker will be interested in lending money under that scheme too if a Senior Citizen approaches one. In this scheme the repayment of loan will be difficult as the only way is through sale of mortgaged property and given the present laws any financial person will know how difficult that is. But when pensioner is in a position to repay the loan from his pension no financial institution is interested. Wherever he goes the first question asked is about his age. The next question is do you have a son who can be co-borrower. What kind of country is this where a person’s eligibility is judged by his age?

You call them senior citizen but you don’t have a mediclaim policy for them when they need it most. You can not get a Life Insurance policy even if you are physically and mentally fit because you are over age.

 In America if any mortgage company asks the age of a prospective borrower, it can be sued on the base of discriminatory practices but in this GREAT (Sic) country everything is judged by age. And the irony is that law makers are mostly SENIOR CITIZENS