New Delhi: There was a time joint households have been fairly frequent in India. The familial bond was sturdy and even 40 to 50 individuals used to stay in the identical home. But occasions have modified and with it our conduct and habits in direction of our family members additionally modified. Now joint households are not often discovered.
Zee News Anchor Aman Chopra on Thursday (June 3) narrated the tragic tale of a mother who was abandoned by her sons and mentioned how the joint family system has modified with time.
The bitter reality is that now many kids in India don’t wish to hold their mother and father with them. They need the property of their mother and father, however they don’t wish to take care of them of their outdated age.
This was evident within the story of Ramkuwar Bai, a 70-year-old mother who was abandoned by her five sons after the dying of her husband.
When her husband was alive, the five sons lived with them. But then they received married and received separated. When the daddy died and the mother wanted her kids’s help, none of them got here ahead.
The five sons offered their ancestral property quickly after the dying of their father. His father had six acres of land, out of which five and a half acres have been offered by the sons. They divided the cash amongst themselves and gave the remaining half an acre of land to an individual within the village asking him to take care of their mother. However, this individual additionally offered his share of land and evicted the outdated woman from the home.
When the matter reached the police, they registered a case towards the five sons below the Maintenance and Welfare of Parents and Senior Citizens Act, 2007.
This shouldn’t be the primary such case in India. In the previous couple of years, there have been many such instances that present individuals these days don’t wish to stay with their aged mother and father.
According to the 2001 census, there have been 19 crore 31 lakh households in India at the moment, out of which 3 crore 69 lakh have been joint households. That is, 19 p.c of the whole households lived collectively.
But inside 10 years this image modified. In the 12 months 2011, joint households remained solely 16 p.c of the all households. There have been 24.88 crore households in India at the moment, out of which 4 crore have been joint households.
According to the information launched by an NGO ‘HelpAge India’, there are 1176 old-age properties in our nation. According to a different examine, there’s a dwelling association for about 97,000 such individuals in these outdated age ashrams. But by the 12 months 2028, the quantity of such individuals can be 9 lakh, that’s, there can be neither room left for these individuals of their homes, nor will there be area for them within the outdated age properties.
In our nation, there’s a Maintenance and Welfare of Parents and Senior Citizens Act, 2007 to cope with this subject. Under this, the upkeep and care of the mother and father have been ensured. This regulation says that if a baby doesn’t take care of his mother and father, they must pay an allowance of as much as 10 thousand rupees to their mother and father each month.
Apart from this, within the 12 months 2017, the Delhi High Court mentioned that if an individual misbehaves with their aged mother and father they won’t be entitled to share within the property of their mother and father.
Joint households are nonetheless present in some cities and villages in India, however these at the moment are getting restricted as households are disintegrating.
