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Hooda announces health scheme for kids

CHANDIGARH: Rich tributes were paid to late Prime Minister Indira Gandhi on her 92nd birth anniversary at a function organised by the Haryana Pradesh Congress Committee here on Thursday. Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda announced launch of an “Indira Bal Swasthya Yojana” for children and doubling of the grant under the Indira Gandhi Priyadarshni Vivah Shagun Yojana. Describing Indira Gandhi as a powerful woman from a family of freedom fighters, he said she did not worry about her life and sacrificed it for the country’s unity and integrity. It was apt that her birth anniversary was celebrated as ‘Qaumi Ekta Diwas’.

Mr. Hooda announced that the Indira Bal Swasthya Yojana would be implemented from January 26, 2010. It would provide comprehensive healthcare to more than 40 lakh children up to 18 years. The scheme aims at providing free health check-up and treatment to all pre-school and school-going children and even drop-outs, he added. The thrust would be to combat the problem of anaemia and ensure de-worming, proper nutrition and timely detection of disabilities.

He said the “shagun” grant to families belonging to SCs living below the poverty line for marriage of their daughters and to widows belonging to all sections of society for their own remarriage as well as for marriage of their daughters has been increased from Rs.15,000 to Rs.31,000 and the amount of “shagun” being given to women from BPL families has also been increased from Rs.5,100 to Rs.11,000 from Thursday.

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