Goverment to launch advantages beneath PM CARES for Children tomorrow 

By PTI

NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will launch advantages beneath the ‘PM CARES for Children’ on Monday by way of video-conferencing, the Ministry of Women and Child Development mentioned on Sunday.

The authorities had launched the initiative on May 29 final yr to assist youngsters 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 mentioned the prime minister will switch scholarships to school-going youngsters. 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 youngsters, together with their guardians and the district Justice of the Peace involved, will be part of the occasion by way of digital mode. The occasion will probably be attended by ministers, MPs and MLAs of the respective states and union territories, it mentioned.

The goal of the scheme is to make sure complete care and safety of kids in a sustained method by offering them boarding and lodging, empowering them by way of training and scholarships, equipping them for self-sufficient existence with monetary assist of Rs 10 lakh on attaining 23 years of age and guaranteeing their well-being by way of medical health insurance.

The portal “http://pmcaresforchildren.in/” is a single window system that facilitates approval course of and all different help for kids beneath the scheme.