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    Cross-Cultural impact of old age pension on the livelihood chances of Geriatrics in Haryana
    (CCSHAU, Hisar, 2021-02) Ashma; Dahiya, Manju
    Aging is a natural process which worldwide affects all the human beings. The major events in life of an individual includes birth, infancy, adolescence, adulthood and elderly, due to economic wellbeing and better health care facilities, increase the life expectancy of human beings. Global estimates indicate that geriatrics has been increasing steadily. The Indira Gandhi National Old Age Pension System is a major source of income for the elderly. The present study focuses on awareness, utilization, prevalence of abuses and impact of old age pension on the livelihood chances of geriatrics in the districts Hisar and Nuh of Haryana State. Total of two hundred geriatrics (25 males and 25 females from four villages) interviewed randomly. The results indicated that in both the districts, half of the geriatrics (50.0%) were 65-70 years of age followed by 32.5 per cent geriatrics were 71-75 years of age and were from backward class and illiterate. In Hisar, awareness was comparatively more than Nuh about all these rights except right to equality, right to freedom of religion and senior citizen without children can claim maintenance from adult relative who will inherit the property after their death. Cent per cent geriatrics were aware and utilizing Indira Gandhi National Old Age Pension Scheme (IGNOAPS) in both the districts followed by travel concession and National Programme for Health Care of Elderly (NPHC). In Nuh, old age pension funds were mainly used for basic needs (WMS-2.98) followed by family expenses while in Hisar, majority of the geriatrics used old age pension fund for medicines (WMS-2.85) followed by travel.39.5% of the geriatrics suffered from financial abuses, 31.0 per cent geriatrics suffered from emotional abuses, 19.5 per cent geriatrics suffered from physical abuses and all types of abuses (physical, emotional and sexual) were found more in female than male except financial abuse and maximum abuses caused by daughter-in-laws. Due to post pension the geriatrics got adequate quantity of different food groups with mean scores and standard deviation (30.7 ±27.5 and 41.5±31.8), health facilities (42.5± 36.5 and 58.2±38.3), shelter/sanitation/ water facilities (51.7 ±49.5 and 35.2±44.3), recreational facilities and other amenities with mean score and standard deviation (15.0±17.9 and 24.1±11.8) and significant in both the districts while the geriatrics from Nuh had inadequate quantity of clothes and non significant at 0.05% level of significance. The improved quality index for Nuh was 41.0 per cent and for Hisar was 63.0 per cent hence the quality index of geriatrics for Hisar was better than the Nuh In Nuh, maximum improvement was observed in mobility domain (WMS-2.40) whereas in Hisar maximum improvement was observed in health and nutrition domain (WMS-2.16). Among all the indicators, female geriatrics scored high for health (16.0±10.7) whereas male geriatrics scored high for shelter/ sanitation/ water (17.2±14.9) in Nuh while in Hisar also male geriatrics scored high for health (25.2±15.0) whereas female geriatrics scored high for clothes (20.7±10.4).Majority of the geriatrics (95.0%) faced illiteracy in completing formalities to get pension
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    Content analysis and reading behaviour towards “Swachh Bharat Mission”
    (CCSHAU, 2017) Ashma; Goel, Rita
    Media is an essential tool of communication which helps in educating the masses. Print media is the oldest communicating tool still being used in all the life stages. The importance of print media especially newspaper can be estimated from the fact that millions of people across the country depend for the information that appears in the newspapers. Sanitation is not only associated with internal beauty but also with the health of the people. The well known international organizations and other sanitation related schemes or programmes like Swachh Bharat Mission cannot be ignored whenever sanitation and issues related with it become headlines. In India, most of the print media studies have been in the area of content analysis. Very little attempts have been made to know quantitative and qualitative coverage of issues related to Swachh Bharat Mission in the newspapers. Therefore, the study was conducted by keeping in view the importance of content analysis with the objectives: Content analysis of coverage on “Swachh Bharat Mission” in Hindi newspapers and Analyze the reading behaviour towards “Swachh Bharat Mission”. Four Hindi newspapers i.e. Dainik Bhaskar, Dainik Jagran, Dainik Tribune and Punjab Kesri were selected on the basis of maximum circulation of these newspapers in locale of the study. Content analysis of the selected newspapers was conducted in three phases. Hisar district of Haryana state was selected purposively to study the readers‟ behavior towards Swachh Bharat Mission. Total 100 respondents from the 2 wards (50 from each) of the Hisar city were interviewed randomly. The results of content analysis revealed that Dainik Jagran had maximum number of items and space related to Swachh Bharat Mission followed by Dainik Bhaskar. Majority of the items were published in the form of news followed by campaigns and photographs. Most of the items related to issue were covered by the newspaper correspondents and national agencies. Majority of items were of national level and placed on local page. The number of items and space covered in 1st column was highest. The maximum items and highest space were covered in 15 days after launching. The results of readership behaviour signifies that majority of the respondents were aware about national newspapers in both Hindi and English languages and read newspapers regularly. Most of the respondents read newspapers for improving their knowledge and preferred Dainik Bhaskar newspaper. About one fourth of the respondents preferred political section in the newspaper. Half of the respondents found the coverage regarding Swachh Bharat Mission somewhat adequate in the selected newspapers and felt that Dainik Bhaskar published content related to Swachh Bharat Mission was able to create awareness.