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New scheme for girl child applicable from new session

NEW DELHI: The “Delhi Ladli Scheme-2008”, introduced for the protection of the girl child, would be applicable from the new academic year. The scheme is aimed at enhancing the social status of the girl child in society as well as in the family, ensuring proper education to make the girl child self-reliant, ensuring her economic security and protecting her from discrimination and deprivation.

As part of the scheme, the Government will make a payment of Rs.6,000 if the girl child is born in a hospital or nursing home in Delhi and will provide a cash payment of Rs.5,000 each on admission of the child to Class I, VI, IX, X and XII.

“The scheme envisages periodic payments by the Government in the name of the girl child, which would be made as fixed deposits in her name and is encashable when the child reaches 18 years and has passed the Class X examination as a regular student. The eligibility criteria are that the applicant should have been a bona fide resident of the Capital for at least three years preceding the date of application, the annual income of the parents of the girl child should not exceed a lakh and the child must be born in Delhi as shown by the birth certificate,” said Delhi Health and Family Welfare Minister Yoganand Shastri. Meanwhile, to protect the interest of the girl child, the long-term fixed deposit receipt would be non-transferable and ineligible for premature encashment. Also, after the child reaches Class IX, all correspondence would be with the child to help her gain ownership of the process. The Education Department would introduce programmes in schools to bring awareness about the scheme and to help the children to decide the best means of utilising the money.

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