{"id":16358,"date":"2016-10-06T08:39:29","date_gmt":"2016-10-06T08:39:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/?p=16358"},"modified":"2016-10-06T08:39:29","modified_gmt":"2016-10-06T08:39:29","slug":"international-day-older-persons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/international-day-older-persons\/","title":{"rendered":"International Day of Older Persons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Question: International Day of Older Persons is celebrated on-<\/strong><br \/>\n(a) 29 September<br \/>\n(b) 3 October<br \/>\n(c) 1 October<br \/>\n(d) 30 September<br \/>\n<strong>Ans: (c)<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Related facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">On 1 October 2016; International Day of Older Persons was celebrated across the world.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">On December 14, 1990 the United Nations General Assembly voted to establish October 1 as the International Day of Older Persons as recorded in Resolution 45\/106.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">On this occasion President of India Pranab Mukharjee presented the National Awards for Senior Citizens\u201cVayoshreshtha Samman-2016\u201d to eminent senior citizens and institutions in recognition of their service towards the cause of elderly persons, especially indigent senior citizens.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Vayoshreshtha Samman is a Scheme of National Awards instituted by the Ministry of Social Justice &amp; Empowerment (D\/o Social Justice &amp; Empowerment) initially in 2005 and was upgraded to the status of National Awards in 2013.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">The segment of our population that is aged above 60 years, numbers about ten and half crores.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Of these, 5.1 crore are male and 5.3 crores are female.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Current projections indicate that by the year 2026, the number of senior citizens, male and female, will be 8.4 and 8.8 crores respectively i.e. a total of 10 percent of our population.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Reference:<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.un.org\/en\/events\/olderpersonsday\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.un.org\/en\/events\/olderpersonsday\/<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.un.org\/en\/events\/olderpersonsday\/background.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.un.org\/en\/events\/olderpersonsday\/background.shtml<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/pib.nic.in\/newsite\/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=151331\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/pib.nic.in\/newsite\/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=151331<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: International Day of Older Persons is celebrated on- (a) 29 September (b) 3 October (c) 1 October (d) 30 September Ans: (c) Related facts: On 1 October 2016; International Day of Older Persons was celebrated across the world. On December 14, 1990 the United Nations General Assembly voted to establish October 1 as the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16258,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1141],"tags":[2342,2340],"class_list":["post-16358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ydw-snews","tag-day-week","tag-year"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16358\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}