Job IT Hubs, Banglore
BANGALORE: India's tech hub Bangalore has more than half a million senior citizens, of whom nearly 90 percent 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.
"Most elders after retirement are physically and mentally fit to work. But without any regular income or economic security like pension benefits, they are in dire need of some remunerative occupation for their sustenance," Radha S. Murthy, managing trustee of Nightingales Medical Trust working for the cause of senior citizens
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.
"Most elders after retirement are physically and mentally fit to work. But without any regular income or economic security like pension benefits, they are in dire need of some remunerative occupation for their sustenance," Radha S. Murthy, managing trustee of Nightingales Medical Trust working for the cause of senior citizens

