Thiruvananthapuram: A total of 113 children lost their parents and 3,652 loses at least one of their parents to Covid-19 in the state to date, in accordance with the latest data compiled by the women’s and child development department.
In this review, the Chief Secretary of VP Joy instructed all districts to accelerate the process of compensating orphans, especially after the latest Supreme Court ruling in this matter.
Meanwhile there are 113 beneficiaries under the central scheme, (afternoon care for children), there are 142 children under state schemes covering 113 children who have orphans because of Covid and 29 children who have been left behind for care by the government.
While all children under the central scheme are also included in the state scheme, the state government has included children who have been abandoned by their parents and the parents have now died of Covid-19 and children whose parents die in three months .
After turning Covid-19 positively under the scheme for children.
On January 27, the state government has provided assistance to 54 children and the process has been completed for 20 cases like that.
Home visits and other processes for all 102 children have been completed.
The district has raised that obstacles in this matter is about the opening of bank accounts along with children and district child protection officers (DCPO).
It was decided at a review meeting to speed up this problem, and to ensure that the remaining applications were also processed earliest.
The district collector has also been asked to ensure that complete information about deaths recorded in the Swaraj Center Portal, compensation payment status, etc.
Must be divided by the District Legal Service Authority.
The data compiled in the state level, will be distributed by the state legal service authority by Commissioners of Land income.
The past month, the Supreme Court has directed the country to reach orphaned children because they can ensure that they receive ex-gratia compensation of Rs 50,000.
The court has noted that they may not be in a position to submit their claims for compensation, and the authorities must reach them instead.
After the court made severe criticism regarding the slow progress of Covid-19 ex-Gratia compensation, The State has accelerated the process of also by making changes needed in the procedure to provide fund sanction to beneficiaries.
As many as 90.07% of claims were cleaned by the state until Monday night.
113 children lost their parents to Covid in the state
