Poverty Target Programs for The Elderly In India with Special Reference to National Old Age Pension Scheme, 1995

Formal old age care is a supplement to informal old age care and not its substitute, and it is increasingly being felt that the two forms of care should be woven together. This paper looks into various aspects of the old age pension debate and related policies in India. It analyses issues such as the identity of the drivers of change, the political context in which policies emerged, the intrinsic relationship between poverty and old age problems, state ideology and the design and implementation of related policies.