law: Maintenance and Welfare of Parents and Senior Citizens Act, 2007
  Chapter III:
  
  Establishment of Old age
  19. Establishment of
  
  old age homes.-
  
  1.  
  
    The
  
  State Government may establish and maintain such number of old age homes at
  
  accessible places, as it may deem necessary, in a phased manner, beginning with
  
  at least one in each district to accommodate in such homes a minimum of one
  
  hundred fifty senior citizens who are indigent.
  2.  
  
    The
  
  State Government may, prescribe a scheme for management of old age homes,
  
  including the standards and various types of services to be provided by them
  
  which are necessary for medical care and means of entertainment to the
  
  inhabitants of such homes.
  Explanation.- For the purposes of
  
  this section, “indigent” means any senior citizen who is not having sufficient
  
  means, as determined by the State Government, from time to time, to maintain
  
  himself.