Nagpur: After losing their mother, who is the only breadwinner in the family, to Covid-19 this year, two brothers aged 11 and 15 years depending on occasional assistance from several private organizations and initiatives.
The mother usually works as a domestic aid while their father has died a few years ago.
The children lived with their Septuagenarian grandparents in June Mangalwari.
With the government scheme has not been implemented, orphans are in trouble.
Their relatives were poor and even neighbors could barely help.
They are one of 51 children from Nagpur Regency who are waiting for 18 years to qualify for the help of RS10 Lakh from the PM Cares funds of the central government.
The state government has promised RS5 Lakh issued by government resolutions on June 17.
In addition, 1,699 other children, who lost one of their parents to Covid, should be appointed in the scheme of ‘Balangopan’ through the development of women and children ‘Department (WCD).
In accordance with the Minister of Female and Yashomati Thakur, the proposal has been debated in front of the Cabinet for RS1,100 monetary assistance to the children.
According to him, around 15,000 children in the state have lost one of their parents because Covid.
Thakur said that WCD had provided monetary assistance to orphans.
On the special monetary assistance of the state of the state of the RS Lima Lakh for orphans, he said that the scheme was budgeted this year.
“The current file with the Ministry of Finance and must be immediately cleaned,” he said.
According to Thakur, there are around 500 orphans in the state.
In accordance with the source in WCD, the government has asked the respective district units to open a joint bank account with an orphan together with the district WCD officers.
“There was a minor who had stopped the study and picked up work to sustain himself and his grandparents.
The other 17-year-old girl from Satranjipura was interested in learning further but Covid made him ruined after he lost his parents,” said the WCD source.
The source says that sometimes her children don’t even have enough cash to get a photocopy of the document.
“We offer them help,” said the source.
The former Mayor of Sandip Joshi has initiated ‘PalaceTwa Prakalp’ to help familiar communities, especially children.
He has taken the responsibility of 250 families where 400 children are now under care and watch.
Joshi said they had so far paid Rs 9.50 lakh in school fees for these children.
“Women have been given skills development training, especially in jobs such as masala-making and the project.
We will have their own brand ‘Covid Siddha’ Covid ‘and the exhibition will be held during Diwali,” he said.
The former mayor has also created a ‘family health card’ specifically for free medical care and forms a counselor panel.
Promising aplenty for covid orphans but helps still far away
