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“Rashtriya Vayoshri Yojana” was launched by the Ministry for Social Justice and Empowerment on 1 April 2017 at Nellore (Andhra Pradesh). Under the scheme, physical aids and assisted-living devices for senior citizens were distributed to senior citizens belonging to below poverty line (BPL) category.

– The scheme has been implemented through the sole implementing agency – Artificial Limbs Manufacturing Corporation (ALIMCO), a public sector undertaking. The aids to be distributed under the “Rashtriya Vayoshri Yojana” scheme include walking sticks, elbow crutches, walkers, tripods / quadpods, hearing aids, artificial dentures and spectacles.

– The ambitious scheme, first of its kind in the country, is expected to benefit 5,20,000 Senior citizens over a period of the 3 years.

A bureaucracy is a way of administratively organizing large numbers of people who need to work together.

The term bureaucracy literally means "rule by desks or offices".

Organizations in the public and private sector, including universities and governments, rely on bureaucracies to function.

Gautamiputra Satakarni has been described as the "destroyer of the Sakas, the Yavanas and the Pallavas".

The oldest generally accepted fossils of large animals range in age from 565 to 550 million years old.

Pneumonia is a lung infection which is usually caused by a bacteria or virus or fungi in one segment or the whole lung or both lungs. Lobar Pneumonia refers to a lung infection in which it affects the large segment of the lung or lobe.

National Maritime Day of India is observed every year on 5th April. On this day in 1919, S S Loyalty, the first ship of the Scindia Steam Navigation Company, journeyed to the United Kingdom.