{"id":58938,"date":"2024-12-12T18:53:47","date_gmt":"2024-12-12T13:53:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=58938"},"modified":"2024-12-12T18:53:47","modified_gmt":"2024-12-12T13:53:47","slug":"sindh-govt-introduces-senior-citizen-card-for-elderly-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/sindh-govt-introduces-senior-citizen-card-for-elderly-people\/","title":{"rendered":"Sindh govt introduces Senior Citizen Card for elderly people"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>KARACHI: The <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/sindh-govt-abolishes-15-years-age-relaxation-for-government-jobs\/\">government of Sindh<\/a> has announced the launch of a Senior Citizen Card to provide basic amenities to the province\u2019s senior citizens.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement was made by Sindh Minister for Social Welfare Mir Tariq Ali Khan Talpur at a signing ceremony. He said that the card will benefit about 3.7 million senior citizens aged 60 years and above.<\/p>\n<p>He added that data will be collected from the National Database and Registration Authority (NADRA) to include all senior citizens in the program.<\/p>\n<p>The card will enable senior citizens to have easy access to healthcare, travel facilities and other civic services.<\/p>\n<p>He said that the aim of the initiative is to develop a society that values \u200b\u200band takes care of its senior citizens. He added that the provincial government is committed to meeting the needs of the senior citizens.<\/p>\n<p>The signing ceremony was attended by various officials, including Parwaiz Ahmed Seehar, Secretary Social Welfare Department; Athar Hussain Mirani, Director General Social Welfare Department; Ehtesham Shahid, Director General <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/nadra-b-form-child-certificate-latest-fee-update-in-pakistan-for-december-2024\/\">NADRA<\/a> Karachi; and Junaid Shaukat, Program Manager.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KARACHI: The government of Sindh has announced the launch of a Senior Citizen Card to provide basic amenities to the province\u2019s senior citizens. The announcement was made by Sindh Minister for Social Welfare Mir Tariq Ali Khan Talpur at a signing ceremony. He said that the card will benefit about 3.7 million senior citizens aged [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":55381,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[826,24733],"class_list":["post-58938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pakistan","tag-nadra","tag-senior-citizen-card"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58938"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58938\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58939,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58938\/revisions\/58939"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}