The very concept of an old age home is not new to India. An old age home is usually the place, a home for those old people who have no one to look after them or those who have been thrown out of their homes by their children. It is a fact that the many of aged are seen in the street, railway station in extremely critical condition. May be very few are noticed and most of them are not come into public notice and even they are to lose their life without any care. Besides this, since the women have started working out of homes, there is now, no one to look after the routine needs of the elders at home. Also, with the women working out, their attitudes towards the elders as their duty but as useless appendages in the family.
For the dire need of the locality and heartfelt realisation of one of the founder members of Village Welfare Society had shaped the dream into reality setting up an Old Age Home in 1993. It is located at Pancharul, Udaynarayanpur – block of Howrah district, partly sponsored by the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment, Govt. of India, under the scheme of IPSrC (now under NAPSrC – National Action Plan for Senior Citizens) and it is partly by the Village Welfare Society own.