Mysuru: As part of International Senior Citizens Day, the Union Government has invited applications from organisations and individual senior citizens for conferring ‘Vayoshresta Samman’ National award for the year 2018 in recognition of their contribution towards empowerment of senior citizens.

The necessary applications can be downloaded from URL http://socialjustice.nic.in/schemespro2.php or from the Office of the District Officer for the Welfare of Physically Challenged on Pulikeshi Road in Tilaknagar here. The filled-in forms should be submitted with necessary documents before May 31. For details, contact Ph: 0821-2490111.