Lucknow: Devansh Dixit was only 11 years old when his father Akhil Dixit, an administrative officer at a private medical college in Bareilly, gave up on a massive heart attack on November 2019.
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Devansh Abha opened a living room for sustenance and funded his son’s education.
However, the misfortune did not end and Abha surrendered to Covid-19 on May 2 in the second wave.
Allowed without parents, Devansh was taken to Lucknow by his Septugenarian mother’s grandfather Rajesh Pandey who lived in Chowk.
“Life is very cruel to Devansh and I don’t know what will happen to him after me.
My two sons who lived in Gujarat with their families sent money from where I paid for his school fees.
We contacted the authorities for government assistance, but to date Nothing happened, “Pandey said, which is often unhealthy because of old age.
After learning that the welfare of women and government children identified orphans who had lost parents to Covid, Pandey was preparing documents to file a scheme ‘PM-Cares for Union children where children will get monthly allowances in Round 18 and Rs 10 Lakh in reaching age 23 In addition to free education, health insurance and financial support for uniforms, books and notebooks.
The Director, Welfare of Women and Children, Manoj Rai told Tii, “above, we have identified 328 orphans who lost both parents during a pandemic.
Such orphans are eligible for the central government scheme.
Our department has begun their documentation, so Apart from the benefits of the state government of Mukhyamantri Bal Vikas Yojana-Covid, the orphans also received RS 10 Lakh’s assistance under the central government scheme.
“However, the scheme does not include orphans who have no evidence of Covid death claims.
“Life is very cruel to us.
We hope the government must consider our claims with mercy.
I lost both parents for Corona infection within one month.
They both died at home, and so I did not have a certificate of death to prove Covid’s death.
Local hospitals refused to recognize my mother when she had all the symptoms of Corona, and my father died before we could understand anything, “said Madhur Singh Yadav, who was 17 years old, an intermediary student, Ganga Kheda Village in Malihabad.
The youngest of the three siblings, he lost his father Amrit Lal Yadav, a house keeper who was last posted at the Secretariat, on March 9, while Maya Maya Devi surrendered on April 25.
The government will release Hospital 14CR for orphans who do not consume TOI reports published on October 16 on non-Covid orphans who are waiting for financial assistance, the state government tends to release lump sum from Rs 14 Crore in two weeks.
The maximum of two orphans from each family will be paid at Rs 2,500 per month until they reach the age of 18.
There are more than 2,500 orphans in the state that do not have a Covid certificate to prove the cause of the death of their parents.
There are more than 50 families who have more than two orphans.