The Indian state of Himachal Pradesh has in place another scheme named ‘Chief Minister Sukh Shiksha Yojana’ which is directly traced to some annual payments done by the Government of Himachal Pradesh. The program provides funds to widows, poor women, divorced women and disabled parents towards aiding their children’s education and welfare.
`This scheme will now have a revolving fund of Rs 53.21 crore which the state will be providing on a yearly basis’, he remarked.
The program covers two categories of age group children.
Under graduate, post graduate or diploma or vocational educated course parents whose children are admitted for these education programs will be funded by the government to subsidize their children’s and their caterers’ fees.
Child Chief Minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu has observed that widowed, deserted or thrown-away women frequently find it difficult to raise the children they are left with because they have no educational qualifications and sufficient finance.
‘These women are in a complicated situation because they are the potential breadwinners for themselves and their children’s education but don’t have any form of moral or financial support needed to see this children’s education is availed,’ he added.
He further said that the children in these families are very susceptible to many social ills as mechanical parenting, child trafficking, child molestation, child brides taking up drugs etc. are prevented by reinforcing more supervision from parents and extended families.
The Mukhya Mantri Sukh Shiksha Yojana is also designed to fulfil the wants of those children who have parents with disability keeping in views the association of disabilities with unemployment and poverty. All the women, children and other members of families, whose total annual income is less than Rs 1 lakh, come under the purview of the scheme. Application Forms may also be submitted to the concerned Child Development Programme Officer.
“The most important thing is that there are no nurturing and supporting factors in society for these vulnerable families and children do not get the education and care which is essential for their dignity” said the Chief Minister. He said that as for the beginning of the current term of the state government, the Vulnerable groups were heard and sustained a number of protective measures.
“There are several sections of society who do not come to us with their complaint and their woes in confidence, but as a sensitive government, we do not disregard any of them as wose are committed for their welfare” said Chief Minister.
As met earlier, Chief Minister Suhu conducted a cabinet meeting at the Secretariat on Sunday, August 25, 2013.
