The image of a old lady that is hard to Forget!

Gouna is a village in Lalitpur District of Uttar Pradesh (India). We(Officer trainees of the foundation course - 81st batch) went there as a part of our Village Visit Programme. On the first day of our visit i happened to see a shocking (may be for me!) sight. To get a preliminary idea of the village we went for a transect walk around the village. Our visit to the village has kindled the expectations of the people of the village. Wherever we went People keep on coming to meet us and express their grievances. I myself got convinced that people want someone to atleast listen to their greivances. For them we looked like saviours though they know that we can't do much. The sight that i saw on that sunny open area after the people left was very heartening. Tears started flushing in my eyes and was just about to come out. I saw an Old lady in her late eighties sitting in a bent posture and trembling. I was gazing at her when tears came out of her eyes spontaneously and she kept on wiping the tears as that of a little child. She never even spoke a single word but all i could understand from her tears is that she is certainly uncared by her kith and kin and she is not getting the old age pension that the government has assured. One of our group member, a lady officer spoke to her and assured that she will get what she deserved as soon as possible. But that image of a helpless old lady got imprinted in my mind. What security such poor people have when the country is treading a higher developmental path? Who will be the voice of these voiceless people? And what i can do for her?........Will God give the answers for these Questions that loom into my mind? Images speak for themselves......One of the worst things in the world is Poverty in Childhood and still worse is Poverty in oldage.