Benefits under PM CARES for Children Scheme to be released today

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will release benefits under the PM-CARES for Children Scheme at 10:30 this morning via video conferencing. He will transfer scholarships to school-going children. A passbook of PM-CARES for Children, and health card under Ayushman Bharat - Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana will be handed over to the children during the programme.

The PM CARES for Children Scheme was launched by Prime Minister Modi on 29 May last year to support children who have lost both the parents or legal guardian or adoptive parents or surviving parent to Covid-19 pandemic,  during the period from 11 March 2020 to 28 February 2022. 

The objective of the Scheme is to ensure comprehensive care and protection of children in a sustained manner by providing them boarding and lodging, and empowering them through education



and scholarships. 

The scheme will equip them with financial support of 10 lakh rupees on attaining 23 years of age and ensuring their wellbeing through health insurance. A portal named pmcaresforchildren.in was launched to register details of the children. The portal is a single window system that facilitates the approval process and all other assistance for beneficiaries.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will also interact with orphans across the country through video conferencing.

In Uttar Pradesh the scheme has become great support to such children.  as many as 43 Orphans from Thane district who are beneficiaries of Prime Minister's Care for Children Scheme, will also participate in this program from district collector office.