13. Other functions of the Council

to advise the Government on the promotion of the welfare and the rights of elders;

to recommend programmes to the Government and the other appropriate bodies, to strengthen the family unit based on the traditional values of Sri Lanka ;

to take all such measures as are necessary, in consultation with the relevant Ministries, Provincial

Authorities, Local Authorities, Districts and

Divisional Secretariats, religious institutions, Non

Governmental Organisations and private sector organizations, to promote and protect the welfare and rights of elders ;

to organise lectures, seminars, workshops and other programmes in schools and other appropriate places with a view to inculcating, in the younger generation, their duties to elders ;

to ensure the adoption of, and compliance with, the relevant international declarations and conventions relating to elders, by the Government of Sri Lanka ;

to maintain accurate and up to date statistics relating to elders ;

to promote studies and research with a view to identifying the principal causes of the problems of elders and their needs and aspirations and to promote effective measures for the alleviation or elimination of such causes and for the satisfaction of such needs and aspirations ;

to provide due publicity through all appropriate means to the findings of the studies and research referred to in paragraph (g), in order to make the public aware of the problems, needs and aspirations of elders ;

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