Senior residents’ helpline, revamped scholarship scheme on the anvil
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The Social Justice and Empowerment Ministry would launch a senior residents’ helpline referred to as Elderline, begin an anti-drugs marketing campaign with 13,000 youth volunteers and roll out the revamped Post Matric Scholarship Scheme for Scheduled Caste college students in 2021-2022, a prime official stated on Thursday.
Secretary of the Department of SJ&E R. Subrahmanyam stated the allocation for the Ministry for the coming monetary 12 months was its highest-ever — ₹10,517.62 crore, 28% greater than the outlay in the revised estimate of ₹8,207.56 crore for 2020-2021, he stated.
The general allocation for the welfare of the SCs by all Ministries had elevated by 51.65% from ₹83,256.62 crore in the 2020-2021 BE to ₹1,26,259.20 crore in the BE for 2021-2022, the Ministry stated. Mr. Subrahmanyam stated the 31 schemes of the division had been restructured into 19. He stated contradictory and overlapping schemes have been streamlined resulting in improved synergy.
Among the schemes talked about by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman was the Post Matric Scholarship scheme, for which ₹5,000 crore can be spent yearly. Under the new mannequin, 60% of the funds can be given by the Centre and 40% by the States. Mr. Subrahmanyam stated the Centre would switch its share into the accounts of the beneficiaries as soon as the State’s share is transmitted. He stated the division was in talks with the States for August 15 and January 26 as the two dates in a 12 months for transferring the scholarship quantities.
The division can be launching particular schemes beneath the Senior Citizen Welfare Fund for serving to start-ups which have give you services and products for the aged, the Ministry stated. The Elderline can be launched to take misery calls and assist senior residents resolve their issues.
The Nasha Mukt Bharat Abhiyan in 272 districts can be strengthened with 13,000 youth volunteers to unfold the message of “say no to drugs”, the official stated.
Mr. Subrahmanyam stated the venture monitoring unit can be strengthened and bodily inspections of all establishments funded by the division can be carried out. He stated the unit had not too long ago discovered that 280 establishments have been ‘malfunctioning’ and grants had been stopped to 201 of them.
