Aiming to spread message of ‘Beti Bachao’, Uttar Pradesh to launch Kanya Sumangala Yojana

Lucknow, October 25: Aiming to spread message of ‘Beti Bachao’, Uttar Pradesh government will launch its flagship scheme Kanya Sumangla Yojna today. Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath will launch the scheme in the presence of Union Women and Child Development Minister Smriti Irani in Lucknow.

 

The scheme will provide an amount of 15 thousand rupees in a phased manner to every family in which a girl child takes birth.

At birth Rs. 2000 will be transferred into account and if a girl has completed all her first-year vaccinations on April 1, 2019, she will be entitled to 1 thousand rupees of Rs 15,000. Similarly, if she has taken admission in class 1, she will get Rs 15,000 minus funds that would have been released at birth and completion of first-year vaccinations."

Funds will be released in installments when a girl child completes various achievements, like vaccination, admission in class 1, 5 and 9, graduation.

Monika Garg, Principal Secretary, child development and women welfare, said that the scheme has been designed in a way that parents have to take care of girl child’s health and education to get the benefit.