NE NEWS SERVICE
GANDHINAGAR, SEP 10
Gujarat Social Justice and Empowerment Minister Ishwarbhai Parmar here on Thursday said Chief Minister Vijay Rupani will transfer the assistance through DBT to another 8,000 such under-18 destitute eligible children who lost their parents due to Coronavirus or some serious disease on Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s birthday on September 17, says a release.
Parmar said the scheme to provide financial assistance to children under-18 age group rendered destitute for loss of mother-father due to serious disease like Coronavirus under Mukhya Mantri Bal Seva Yojna will remain in force.
He said that Chief Minister Vijay Rupani had on a compassionate ground decided to provide financial assistance to such children under the Mukhya Mantri Bal Seva Yojna which was started in July this year.
It was decided to provide assistance of Rs 4,000 per month to 1,000 children who lost both their parents.
In another decision, it was decided on July 28, 2021 that an assistance of Rs 2,000 will be given even to children who lost one of their parents.
On August 2 last, Chief Minister Vijay Rupani had directly transferred Rs 2,000 to bank accounts of about 4,000 such children through DBT. This scheme will also be applicable for children till they attain the age of 18.
The Minister said that since there has been continued decline in the number of Coronavirus after June 15, and negligible by June 30, the State Government had fixed June 30, 2021 as the cut-off date for availing the facility while August 31, 2021 was fixed as the last date for application.
Parmar said, “Chief Minister Vijay Rupani will transfer the assistance through DBT to another 8,000 such under-18 destitute eligible children who lost their parents due to Coronavirus or some serious disease on Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s birthday on September 17, 2021 at an event in Rajkot.”
The Minister clarified that this assistance will be provided to children till they attain the age of 18.
