By Our Staff Reporter
Dehradun, 4 Feb: District Magistrate Savin Bansal has taken a fresh initiative towards making girls self-reliant by taking responsibility for the graduation and skill education of poor orphaned girls. At a meeting of the District Task Force, the District Magistrate ordered the creation of a plan to educate poor, orphaned girls studying in adverse circumstances up to a minimum graduation level, to provide them with skill education, and to connect them to employment. For this, SOP has also been formulated on Bansal’s initiative.
Under the plan, the girls will be selected based on surveys conducted through Janata Darbar and multipurpose camps and on the basis of applications received through various government offices in the district, girls residing in girls’ homes under the District Probation Officer and District Social Welfare Officer, and through all Anganwadi workers in the district.
The received applications will be verified through the Child Development Project Officer concerned, and the girls will be selected after obtaining the necessary documents.
The committee will then send the provisional list of girls to the District Programme Officer’s office along with the certificate of the girls’ eligibility to receive financial assistance. For the final selection and approval of eligible girls, the certified list received by the committee will be compiled by the District Programme Officer and presented before the committee constituted under the chairmanship of the District Magistrate.
After the recommendation and approval of the District Task Force, the financial assistance will be transferred online to the bank account of the school/institution concerned in the form of tuition fees. The amount for other expenses like books and uniforms will be transferred directly to the girls through online medium as per the report of the Child Development Project Officer.
The re-admission of all selected girls in the school will be done by the supervisor of the area concerned, and a certificate to this effect will be obtained from the concerned school/institution and sent to the District Program Officer through the Child Development Project Officer. The Child Development Project Officer will need to verify the girls’ ongoing studies quarterly through the supervisor concerned, and the report will be sent to the District Programme Officer.
All expenses will be met with the budget limit and CSR funds received under the Beti Bachao Beti Padhao scheme.
