Under the auspices of the Social Welfare Department, hundreds of elders from across the district were honored at the local Gujarati Samaj Bhavan on Friday under the aegis of the International Older Persons Week. Deputy Director Social Welfare Shri Akhilesh Tiwari said that the guests present on the occasion honored them by wearing shawls, sticks, sticks and garlands. He said that earlier, a health camp was organized for the elderly in the morning as part of the International Week of Older Persons. During this, from morning to afternoon, the elderly got their health check-up done. On the other hand, hundreds of elders from across the district, who arrived in the ceremony held in the evening, were welcomed under the chairmanship of Chief Guest Dhamtari MLA Smt. Ranjana Sahu and senior citizen Shri Sharad Lohana. Mayor Shri Vijay Devangan was present as a special guest in the program. Chief guest Dhamtari MLA Mrs. Sahu said in her remarks that parents never want their children to be unhappy in life, they fall in some odd circumstances. They have some kind of pain. Similarly, children do not want their parents to be unhappy and sick. be in difficult circumstances. He further said that in the present situation the joint family is breaking up day by day. Only a few examples of joint family are left in the cities and villages. Just as no one can live apart from the society, it is also difficult to live apart from the family. Other guests also addressed the program and talked about always respecting and serving the elderly. At the same time, the guests appealed to every section to cooperate with the elders in every situation. At the end of the program, the guests honored hundreds of elders who participated in the program by giving them shawls, sticks and wearing garlands. Like this:Like Loading… Continue Reading