Click to play videoNew Delhi: It's a tradition that has lived for 60 years but there is one tradition that the countries senior citizens want to retire.
The results of our State of the Nation Poll conducted by GFK Mode for CNN-IBN in partnership with the Hindustan Times reveals that a majority of our elders want politicians to hang in their boots at the age of 60.
They say that politicians must retire at the age of 60 and give way to young blood. The poll also shows that our 60 plus population gives more regard to ability over experience in politics.
The survey asked: what is a more important trait for the leader of the country is his/her ability to run the country or his number of experience in politics?
Fifty-four per cent of the senior citizens think that leadership ability should take precedence over experience, compared to 45 per cent who think that experience is all that matters.
But there is a shocker too.
There should be a retirement age for politicians as well with 74 per cent of senior citizens thinking that politicians should not be allowed to endlessly continue in politics.
This view was felt more strongly by residents of metros with 80 per cent of them agreeing that there should be a retirement age while 61 per cent in small town gave the idea a thumbs up.
But there wasn't a clear consensus on what the retirement age should be
While 44 per cent senior citizens think that politicians should retire at 60 years, 32 per cent felt they should retire between the age of 61-65 years. Nearly 16 per cent felt they should retire between 66-70 years of age while six per cent felt they should retire between 71-75 years
The poll also found out that our senior citizens feel they should rely on younger people to run the country.
Sixty-eight per cent of them agreed to the suggestion while 32 per cent disagreed.
There were also some unfortunate finding of the survey with 70 per cent of the senior citizens felt that no one thinks of older people when one talks of the country's development.
Forty-seven per cent of the 60 plus population also felt that they were a misfit in changing India.
This feeling was most prominent in large towns with 70 per cent agreeing with this statement. In metros and small towns 42 per cent felt they don't really fit in.
But in spite of these findings given a choice they would like to be in India rather than in any other part of the world.
Eighty-eight per cent said that they would rather live in India than abroad.
The elderly now enjoy a better quality of life as compared to 10 years ago with 65 per cent of agreeing.
Other questions that were asked were: Is India a superpower?
Almost 82 per cent said yes that India is a superpower while 18 per cent disagreed.
But 72 per cent also say that India is a soft state and is not being able to deal with terrorism.
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