chandigarh while the ut administration has for long been trying hard to ensure the safety of elderly people living alone in the city though with not much success an ngo has gone a step ahead to offer them a helping hand in living a healthy and happy lifedadadadi a nonprofit service and advocacy organization has been set up particularly to facilitate routine house jobs that senior citizens find difficult to do all by themselves and also to offer them emotional financial and health support structurestarted by jorawer singh who runs a call centre in the city the organization will primarily run a helpline for elderly people so that help could be just an sms and phone call away so senior citizens availing the facility will be able to ask for a plumber electrician a travel agent or anything of the sort through the ngo and without any charges explaining his motive jorawer singh said the objective is to make things easy for our parents when they get old we also have a portal where all kind of information that can be of help to senior citizen has been put upthe ngo also plans to work out incomegenerating activities that can be taken up by those in need of money in their twilight years the organization has already tied up with bsnl whereby they will be offering recharge coupons for sale by senior citizens the idea is to make them selfdependent and also to get them involved in activities that are easy to carry out at home said jorawermy company has a call centre of over 2000 employees which can additionally handle the senior citizen helpline we also have an advocate with us to provide legal help to the elderly he addedavnish jolly an activist associated with the ngo added we had conducted an independent survey recently in the city whereby we concluded that old people felt neglected and lonely that is why our organization would be providing them emotional support as wellsome of the services the organization has been providing senior citizens include pension taxation insurance travel health care telephone magazines and court cases among others