he Department of Health and Family Welfare, Punjab, has increased the amount of money to be given under the Balri Rakshak Yojna from Rs 350 to Rs 500 each in case of two daughters.
Confirming this information, Civil Surgeon, Patiala, Japinder Kaur said the letter in this regard had been released just a few days back and this would certainly help in reducing the financial burden of the poor parents.
About the scheme, she said the Balri Rakshak Yojna was a welfare scheme for the cause of the girl child, which had been launched in the state in 2005 to encourage the birth of girls and to balance the skewed sex-ratio in the state as there had been a considerable decline in the child sex-ratio (0-6 years) during the previous years.
“It also aims to motivate the couples to adopt terminal method of sterilisation in order to stabilise the growth rate of the population,” she said.
An incentive of Rs 500 per month will be given to the female child, provided the parents adopt terminal method of sterilisation after the birth of only one girl.
An incentive of Rs 1,000 (Rs 500+Rs 500) will be given to the two girls provided the family adopts terminal method of sterilisation after the birth of the second girl child (only if the first child is also a girl child). The incentive will be given till the age of 18 years or till the beneficiary becomes an income tax payer.
The civil surgeon said, “In order to encourage the ASHA workers to get more such cases registered and help the department in fulfilling the cause, the department is also giving an incentive of Rs 500 per case to these workers.
A worker, who gets the case registered, will also be given an incentive of Rs 500.”
No comments:
Post a Comment