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India's tech hub Bangalore has more than half a million senior citizens, of whom nearly 90 per cent are without any pension benefits, forcing many of them to go on working for a living and compete in a market that prefers young blood.

T. Rameshwar, 65, retired as a teacher at a private school about five years ago. With his meagre savings fast dwindling, he is on the lookout for a job as he is healthy and fit. There are hundreds like him in Bangalore.

Rameshwar has not got a job, but he has not given up hope as an NGO is helping him and other senior citizens registered with it in their hunt for jobs.

Disability need not stop anyone from work and economic freedom. Perfumed candles, microwaveproof leaf plates, trendy clothes and accessories, all these and more are being made by people with autism, multiple disabilities and are sold in obscure locations across the country.

 We are having a Non-Profit Organization Based School  in Chilakaluripeta and Kanaparru of Guntur (Dt), Andhrapradesh,South India providing Free Education and Boarding Facility to poor and underprivileged childrens from surrounding areas of Chilakaluripeta & Kanaparru. 75 Girl Childrens are Newly Joined in my school and they are from below poverty line and their parents are coolies, pullers, farmers,e.t.c and more over some farmers are committing suicide due to loss of crop recently. They don't have capacity to provide the education for their childrens and they are forced to their childrens to go as a daily laborers. In this juncture St. Charles Convent is kept with these childrens and provide the free education and food and Boarding Facilities to these childrens.

City fashionistas who wish to go pandal-hopping in perfect Chanderi saris or those looking for mojari jootis to go with their kurtis and jeans can travel to New India Art and Craft Festival at G-Town at Jamshedpur for a one-stop answer to shopping blues.

Chanderi saris from Madhya Pradesh, Chania choli from Rajasthan, Bhagalpuri silk of Bihar, to the embroidered bedsheets and mojari shoes of Uttar Pradesh, there is a little bit of everything on offer at the fair. The fair was organised by Hast Shilpa Utthan Seva Sansthan, a Panipat-based NGO from Haryana, aims to support artisans. The organisation markets
the products around the country and help rural artisans earn a decent living.

The Delhi government spent Rs 7,220 per month in educating a child in a state-run school in 2006-07, rivalling the tuition fees of the most expensive of private schools in India’s capital. But, the same government spent around Rs 75 for a child per month in another government school in the same city.

This wide disparity in funding state-run schools is being cited as discriminatory and a non-government organisation has filed public interest litigation (PIL) against the Delhi government in the Delhi High Court. Centre for Civil Society, a New Delhi-based liberal public policy think tank, collected data from 283 government schools in the New Delhi by filing
numerous Right to Information (RTI) applications.