RECOMMENDATIONS EMERGED:

• Parent education programmes should be conducted to sensitize them about the importance of good home environment in alleviating the education related problems of their children.
• Corporal punishment triggers development of negative personality traits such as anxiety. Therefore, there is need to educate teachers regarding appropriate disciplinary techniques so that adolescents are groomed to become self- confident, self-reliant and responsible citizen of the nation.
• School authorities should put teaching of emotional intelligence in their curriculum and teachers should exhibit pro social and emotionally intelligent behaviour to the students.
• Accreditation criteria need to be developed which covers all quality indicators. There should be registration and accreditation of nursery schools.
• Regular checks by the department of education and other agencies working for welfare of children can also help in assuring highly educated and well trained teachers in nursery schools.
• The government should take steps to provide a well balanced curriculum in urban nursery schools as well as rural anganwadis so that the later academic achievements of these children do not suffer.
• An effort should be made to enroll all the children in pre-school before attending the formal school to reduce the school dropout rate and better adjustment of child and favourable attitude towards school.
• It would be most rewarding for the community and society at large if schools get involve in teaching values to children in school starting as early as possible.
• ‘Teaching values’ could be made part of the school curriculum. The ‘teaching values’ programme need to be repeated at all age levels so as to effect permanent imprinting of values on the minds of students.
• Parents should be oriented about ‘teaching values’ programme at the school before commencement of programme so that the learning of values could be reinforced by them at home.
• Short-term guidance and counselling programmes for the elderly and their care-givers may be organized to educate them about the strategies for better physical, financial and socio-emotional adjustment so as to minimize the vulnerability of the dimensions of Quality of Life.
• Youth must be encouraged to plan out progarmmes to take care of the aged and focus on the “Becoming” dimensions of QOL of the aged.
• Peer Support among youth need to be encouraged in educational institutes to address the psycho social problems of the youth.
• Creation of Day-Care Centres where the aged can usefully spend their day-time and return home in the evening is expected to improve all aspects of QOL of the elderly. These day -care centres would promote non-institutional care for the old without incurring huge expenditure in running such centers for the aged. The major benefit of this venture might be that it would prevent the old from being thrown literally on the roads by their families/adverse circumstances. By engaging them in a few hours of useful activity and companionship outside their homes, the old can be spared the boredom and will be in a better frame of mind to adapt to the new ways of the young ones at home. Members of the family will also be relieved of considerable pressure to devise the means and ways of keeping the aged occupied fruitfully. Talks and discussions on yoga, spirituality, morality and host of other contemporary problems can also be arranged for them. There is need to establish day care centres providing facilities of library, canteen, first-aid in-door and out-door games, prayer, group discussions and of other activities required by the participants. Senior citizens must be given their due, that is, dignity and honour as an expression of gratitude for their being the makers and shapers of the present generation.
• There is an urgent need to chalk out a comprehensive programme for the welfare of the aged which should provide social security and financial assistance in the form of monthly pension, free medical aid, homes for the homeless, concession on consumer goods including spectacles, hearing aids, dentures and travel by rail, road or air.
• Work provision must be there for senior citizens. They must get opportunity to work in any of the fields of their interest-paid, half- paid or honorary. The government and voluntary agencies can utilize their services in vocations suited to them and in development activities in the fields of their specialization. Participation of the senior citizens shall augment the national resources without much expenditure.
• To extend the maximum benefit to the maximum number of senior citizens, there is need for better coordination in the work of the Government and of voluntary organizations. To intensify and expand he welfare projects for the aged help and cooperation of the International organization and agencies can also be sought.
• The major attention regarding the welfare of aged persons is presently focused on the elderly residing in urban areas. However, considering the bulk of aged residing in rural areas, it would be equally important to initiate such scientific investigations regarding the QOL, its attendant problems and the factors impinging on it, even in rural setup before these start assuming serious proportions.
• Parents and teachers play an indispensable role in the language development of the children. So efforts must be put on their part to stimulate and promote the development of language skills among preschoolers.