Prime Minister Narendra Modi will launch advantages beneath the ‘PM CARES for Children’ on Monday through video-conferencing, the Ministry of Women and Child Development stated on Sunday. The authorities had launched the initiative on May 29 final 12 months to help kids who misplaced dad and mom, authorized guardian, adoptive dad and mom or surviving mother or father to COVID-19 from March 11, 2020, to February 28, 2022.
In an announcement, the ministry stated the prime minister will switch scholarships to school-going kids. A PM CARES for Children passbook and well being card beneath Ayushman Bharat – Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana will even be handed over to them, it added.
The kids, together with their guardians and the district Justice of the Peace involved, will be a part of the occasion via digital mode. The occasion can be attended by ministers, MPs and MLAs of the respective states and union territories, it stated.
The goal of the scheme is to make sure complete care and safety of youngsters in a sustained method by offering them boarding and lodging, empowering them via training and scholarships, equipping them for self-sufficient existence with monetary help of Rs 10 lakh on attaining 23 years of age and guaranteeing their well-being via medical insurance.
The portal “http://pmcaresforchildren.in/” is a single window system that facilitates approval course of and all different help for youngsters beneath the scheme.
Source: www.financialexpress.com”