Uttarakhand State PCS

• 16 Jun 2022

Nanda Gaura Yojana

Why in News?

• On June 15, 2022, Uttarakhand's Women Empowerment and Child Development Minister Rekha Arya told that the state government has made a provision of Rs 500 crore in the budget to give the benefit of 'Nanda Gaura Yojna'.

Key Points

• With this, more than 61 thousand daughters of poor families of the state will get the benefit of 'Nanda Gaura Yojana' for the year 2022-23. Through the scheme, an amount of 11 thousand is given on the birth of daughters coming from general category to scheduled caste, scheduled tribe and other backward classes and 51 thousand on passing Inter, so that the daughters continue their further studies after passing Inter.
• Due to lack of budget in this welfare scheme, 61,890 daughters of poor families could not get the benefit of 'Nanda Gaura Yojana' from the year 2019-20 to the year 2021-22. On behalf of the department, 1421 daughters in the year 2019-20, 16,336 in the year 2020-21 and 44,133 in the year 2021-22 did not get the benefit of the scheme.
• According to a report of the department, in the year 2019-20, 27,239, in the year 2020-21, only 31,043 daughters have been given financial assistance under the scheme, while in the year 2021-22, not a single eligible daughter got the benefit of the scheme.
• According to departmental officials, a demand of Rs 375 crore was made from the government so that daughters could get the benefit of the scheme, but on the contrary, only Rs 60 crore was received.