Senior Aging Growth Engine (SAGE)

Why in news?

• Senior Care Ageing Growth Engine (SAGE) Initiative and SAGE Portal are launched by the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment to help India’s elderly.

About SAGE Initiative:

• Objectives of SAGE:
  • To focus on addressing the needs of India’s fast rising elderly population.
  • To select, support and create a “one-stop access” of elderly care products and services.
  • To encourage the selected “startups” based on the innovative products and services address the services from health, housing, care centers, technology access linked to needs ranging from finances, food and wealth management to legal guidance.
• Outcomes expected:
  • SAGE project aims to identify, evaluate, verify, aggregate, and deliver products, solutions, services which can be directly provided to the stakeholders, giving them wide choice to select the products, solutions and services that would suit their requirements and help in improving their quality of life.
  • The MoSJE will act as the facilitator in the entire process enabling the elderly to access the credible products through these identified start-ups.

About SAGE Portal:

• In order to provide a transparent mechanism for selecting the start-ups, a dedicated portal has been designed.
• All proposals will be uploaded and selection will be based on blind review by an independent screening committee of experts.
• The first set of selected startups will be hosted on the portal in about two months’ time

PRACTICE QUESTION:

‘SAGE Initiative’, recently launched by the government, aims at:

(a) Bridging existing knowledge gaps in the areas of tribal health and nutrition

(b) Addressing the needs of India’s rising elderly population

(c) Providing one integrated platform and portal for online courses

(d) Facilitating geospatial planning of MGNREGA assets

Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

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