As many as 6000 children have been benefited from the Bal Sewa Yojana (child service scheme) launched by Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath for the children who lost either of their parents or both during the Corona period (from March 2020).
Besides, 2000 other new children have also been selected by the Department of Women and Child Development, who will be given installments this month. The fresh applications have started coming in the department for the child service scheme.
Earlier to this scheme, hundreds of children of UP are getting direct benefit from the sponsorship scheme aimed to give dignity, self-reliance and security to the children of people living below poverty line in UP. Under this scheme, there is a provision of giving two thousand rupees per month to single, disabled parents and orphan destitute children of poor sections.
At the district level, the District Probation Officer, DPO, DCPU and Bal Kalyan Samiti are accepting the applications coming from the Gram Panchayat, Block level distributing the amount to the children within six months. Under this scheme, 1026 children have been benefited from this scheme in different districts of the state.
Smiles on the faces of the children with the child labour education scheme
To connect the children of needy families of the state with the mainstream of education, the stat government had also launched Bal Shramik Vidya Yojana. Through this scheme, on the one hand, the parents are being counseled to encourage their children in the field of education, while on the other hand, by getting all these children enrolled in primary schools, the children of underprivileged class are getting educated.
