01335pab a2200193 454500 180718b2004 xxu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d Alam, Moneer Ageing, old age income security and reforms: an exploration of Indian situation 2004 p.3731-740. 14 Aug Much of the recent growth of India's elderly population is expected to comprise persons with adverse life course experiences, clouded by excessive socio-economic backwardness. Such an ageing process suggests the need for a multi-pillared income security system. The analysis of this paper that focuses on three major income security plans for the aged reveals that the government is instead working to dilute much of its responsibilities. This study strongly argues for (i) strengthening of the social assistance programme for older persons and modification of the ceiling formula used for capping the size of its beneficiaries; (ii) providing a guarantee against diminution of investments in the reformed pension policy, and (iii) devising long-term old age savings instruments with higher terminal yield. - Reproduced. Social security - India Old age - India Ageing - India Ageing Economic and Political Weekly 62145 62145 62145 0 0 0 0 IIPA IIPA 2018-07-19 Volume no: 39, Issue no: 33 AR62595 2018-07-19 2018-07-19 AR