Ajmer: Palanhar Yojana aid reaches kids orphaned by Covid

AJMER: The district administration on Wednesday visited the families of children whose both parents died due to Covid and added them in the Palanhar Yojana in which children will get Rs 1,000 per month.
The administration acted on the basis of a news report, ‘No caregiver for kids of orphaned by virus, activists seek government support’ published by TOI on Wednesday.
Considering the condition of children who lost both parents in the pandemic, activists had raised their voices and asked the state government to provide aid to such children.
Kushal Singh Rawat, district coordinator of Child Line, said visit by their teams to two families to check their financial condition found that they were living with their relatives. While one case was in Rajiyawas village of Beawar where two children were orphaned, the other was in Dholabhata where the child’s father died last year and mother died recently.
“We found that they do not need groceries from government and they are well with their relatives. The team completed the documentation on the spot so that these children will get financial aid under Palanhar Yogna of state government,” said Kushal Singh.
Child Line appealed that people should come forward and call 1098 Child Helpline if they found any such cases or any instances of child abuse.
Former Congress corporator Lalit Verma said society should come forward to identify such children so that the state government could help them. Meanwhile, several organisations and NGOs also came up to help such children and offered their aid to officials of the district administration.