What to do if you lose your Senior Citizen card/How to get a Senior Citizen card in south Bangalore

My Senior Citizen card was stolen, along with other documents, on 23rd June 2016. on a bus (route no. 366) between Richmond Circle and MICO Checkpost bus sto

Since I’d got my card from the office of the Jayanagar MLA, Mr Vijaya Kumar

Address:

35th Cross, 18th Main Road, 4th T Block
Jayanagar – 560041
9448075433
vijayakuma.jnr@gmail.com

(if you click on the link, here, you will get a video of how to get there, too)

I went there again. I was told that there is no proper process in place for replacing lost cards, so I took a form and applied once again. 
 
I did this on 27th June 2016.
 
I was told that there was no charge, and that I could come back to the office in bout a month’s time, to pick up the card.
 
On the 22nd of July, I was passing the office and decided to drop in and find out if my card had come. It had, and I got it without any further ado.
 
I am very impressed with the clean and transparent process for getting the Senior Citizen card, even though there is no replacement process in place.

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