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As per information provided by States/UTs data of orphan children who have lost their parents to Covid since April 2021 to 28.05.2021 is Annexed.

The children in distress situations merit care and protection under the provisions of the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act, 2015. The Act and Rules made thereunder mandate a safety net of service delivery structures along with institutional and non-institutional care for these children. The Ministry is implementing a Centrally Sponsored Scheme namely Child Protection Services (CPS) in partnership with the State Governments/UT Administrations for delivering the institutional and non-institutional care as stipulated under the JJ Act. As per the scheme guidelines, a maintenance grant of Rs.2000/- per child per month is available for non-institutional care of children in need of care and protection along with the provision maintenance grant of Rs.2160/- per child per month for Children living in Child care Institutions.

Hon’ble PM has announced the PM CARES for children scheme to support children who have lost both parents or surviving parent or legal guardians or adoptive parents due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The scheme provides support for education and health and will create a corpus of Rs 10 lakh for each child when he or she reaches 18 years of age. This corpus will be used to give a monthly financial support/ stipend form 18 years of age, for the next 5 years to take care of his or her personal requirements during the period of higher education and on reaching the age of 23 years, he or she will get the corpus amount as one lump-sum for personal and professional use. The scheme is accessible through an online portal i.e. pm cares for children. The portal has been introduced to all the States and UTs on 15.07.21. Any Citizen can inform the administration regarding a child eligible for support under this scheme through the portal.

The Ministry has asked States and UTs to take immediate action for care and protection of children adversely impacted by COVID 19, in accordance with the provisions of the JJ Act 2015 and Rules thereunder, while leveraging the facilities funded under the Child protection Services scheme. The Ministry has also issued advisories and guidelines for encouraging COVID appropriate behaviour, monitoring of Child Care Institutions and coping strategies during COVID times for mental health support to children and caregivers. A guideline providing a responsibility matrix defining the role of primary duty holders has also been shared with the States/UTs.

 

Annexure

 

As per information provided by States/UTs data of children who have lost both or either of parents to Covid or have died because of any reason from April 2021 to 28.05.2021 is as follows:

Sl. No. Name of State No. of orphaned children
1 A&N Island 0
2 Andhra Pradesh 119
3 Arunachal Pradesh 0
4 Assam 3
5 Bihar 0
6 Chandigarh 0
7 Chhattisgarh 16
8 Dadra Nagar Haveli & Daman Diu 2
9 Delhi 1
10 Goa 0
11 Gujarat 45
12 Haryana 0
13 Himachal Pradesh 13
14 J&K 8
15 Jharkhand 11
16 Karnataka 09
17 Kerala 09
18 Ladakh 0
19 Lakshadweep 0
20 Madhya Pradesh 73
21 Maharashtra 83
22 Manipur 1
23 Meghalaya 1
24 Mizoram 0
25 Nagaland 0
26 Odisha 10
27 Puducherry 2
28 Punjab 20
29 Rajasthan 19
30 Sikkim 0
31 Tamil Nadu 8
32 Telangana 23
33 Tripura 0
34 Uttar Pradesh 158
35 Uttarakhand 8
36 West Bengal 3
  Total 645

 

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