In their twilight years, Noor Mohammad and his wife, have to struggle for two square meals a day but they are yet to get government-sponsored allowance for the elderly people.

Around 10:30pm on Monday, Noor, around 90, was waiting for Jamalpur- bound Brahmaputra Express train to reach his home at Charbasanto (Tupkarchar) village of Shyampur union in Melandah upazila of Jamalpur, some 70-kilometre from Mymensingh town.

"I do not know why we did not get the government cards for elderly allowance," said Noor as this correspondent met him at Mymensingh Railway Station on Monday night.

"After taking a light breakfast, I came out of my house in the morning to catch the Mymensingh-bound train at Melandah station. I took very little food during the whole day as I have to return home with only Tk 50 that earned by begging.

"Now I am too weak to go out for begging regularly," said Noor, suffering from serious respiratory problems.

"My wife Sahera Begum works as a domestic help in the village when she can but the earning is too scanty.

"My children, now too busy with their families, do not bother about the untold sufferings of their parents," said a sobbing Noor, father of seven children including two sons.

"Even after giving Tk 2,000 to a former union parishad member of my locality to manage a card, I am yet to get it," he said.

As a train reached the station around 11:45pm, a feeble Noor got busy to board it to return home.