Centre working on packages for those who lost sole breadwinner, orphaned children
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Discussions have been held with stakeholder ministries to ready the package at the earliest, given the huge financial impact such families are facing. Data on these families is already being collated.
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With the second Covid-19 wave taking away sole breadwinners of several families and leaving orphaned children in its wake, the Centre is planning two key packages to deal with the double blow.
ET gathers that high-level meetings were held through the last week to plan two separate schemes to address these issues. Announcements regarding the schemes are expected within a week.
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May 25, 2021 23:54 IST
The official added that the government would make efforts to ensure that children are not uprooted from familial settings
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The official added that the government would make efforts to ensure that children are not uprooted from familial settings The government has identified 577 children orphaned by COVID-19 in India, a senior government official said on Tuesday.
“These children are not abandoned. They are under the watch and protection of the government. We have collected this data from each State government, and we are in touch with them to ensure that these children either get institutional care or are in the care of their immediate family,” a senior official of the Ministry of Women and Child Development said.
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NEW DELHI: As many as 577 children orphaned during the second wave of the ongoing pandemic have been reported by states between April to now as per the information available with the Union ministry of women and child development (WCD). All of the children are presently with their immediate families, their needs are being addressed and they are being monitored by the government for their safety.
According to sources in WCD ministry if one goes by the data on 577 children shared by states, it is not even close to the exaggerated figures many had claimed and shared that Delhi has so far reported just one such case to the ministry.
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