Kanyasree Gets Recognition in the UN
West Bengal government woman education scheme Kanyashree initiated by chief minister Mamata Banerjee receives recognition in the UN.
Kanyashree Prakalpa, the plan propelled by Mamata Banerjee in October 2013, two years after she turned out to be West Bengal chief minister, won her administration in the United Nations Public Service Award at The Hague.
India was named first in the Asia-Pacific gathering for the category of 'Reaching the Poorest and Most Vulnerable through Inclusive Services and Participation.'
The administration of West Bengal was the granted establishment for Kanyashree which plans to improve the status of pre-adult young ladies from burdened families through little money exchanges.
"Expanded instructive achievement, counteractive action of youngster marriage and monetary consideration are the plan's objectives...Kanyashree moves in the direction of making a steady domain in which young ladies are urged to express their maximum capacity and are allowed to progress toward becoming architects of their own lives," the UN press release said.
"Kanyashree of Bengal presently progresses toward becoming "Kanyashree" of the world. The United Nations today, on the event of UN Public Service Day, granted the United Nations Public Services in front of the rest of the competition champ grant... to Government of West Bengal for "Kanyashree," out of 552 selections from 62 nations," Mamata Banerjee wrote in a post on Facebook.
"We are pleased for the benefit of our comrades and the general population of Bengal to get the first prize on UN Public Service Day. Getting the first prize from the UN for Kanyashree is tremendous respect and acknowledgment," she tweeted.
This isn't the first award for the Kanyashree Prakalpa. The UNICEF praised the program two or three years ago. The program has brought 40 lakh school and school going young ladies under its umbrella who are given little measures of cash as grants as long as they keep going to class.
Objectives of the Kanyashree Prakalpa Scheme
The target of the Kanyashree Prakalpa Scheme are as per the following:
• To give budgetary serves to the young ladies from burdened families to seek after higher investigations.
• To lessen dropouts, particularly among young ladies from poor families, who are not secured by some other grant.
• To counteract youngster marriage in West Bengal by expanding the enrolment of young ladies in auxiliary instruction or professional or sports preparing.
• To empower the deferral of relational unions of young ladies until they achieve the age of 18.
• To help students who are continuing their education for quite a while even after the financial crunch
Kanyashree Prakalpa Scheme Scholarship
The Kanyashree Prakalpa conspire two advantage segments.
• Yearly Scholarship
Yearly grant to be paid yearly to the young ladies in the age of 13 to 18, for consistently. It guarantees that the young ladies stay in school and unmarried at the time.
• One time Grant
Under Kanyashree Prakalpa Scheme, once concede will be paid to young ladies between the age of 18 and 19.
Qualification Criteria for Annual grant (K1 Level)
The qualification criteria to get Annual Scholarship under the Kanyashree Prakalpa Scheme are given underneath:
• Understudies somewhere in the range of 13 and 17 years (before turning 18 years)of age are qualified to get Kanyashree Prakalpa Annual grant
• Candidate ought to be unmarried
• Students joined up with classes VIII‐XII in Government perceived regular or equal school or equal professional or some other specialized instructional courses are qualified for this grant
• Student family pay ought to be not exactly or equivalent to Rs. 120000 for every annum are eligible to apply
Family pay contingency to be shifted on the off chance that anybody of the accompanying conditions is valid:
• Candidate young lady is physically debilitated
• Student’s parents (both dad and mother) have expired
• The candidate's little girl/ward is now a beneficiary of the grant and applying for a recharging of the advantage
Qualification Criteria for One Time Grant (K2 Level)
The qualification criteria for one time concede under Kanyashree Prakalpa Scheme are recorded underneath:
• Young lady age between 18 to 19 years (in the wake of turning 18 years and before turn 19) can apply for this.
• The young lady was unmarried on accomplishing the age of 18 just is qualified
• On the off chance that a young lady is selected and routinely going to an Institution of Higher Education or Training is qualified for One Time Grant
• To apply for this understudies family pay ought to be not exactly or equivalent to Rs. 120000 for each annum just qualified to apply
• As expressed above family salary condition can be shifted for physically handicapped young ladies and expired guardians.
Kanyashree K3 Prakalpa
On July 28th, 2017 the Honorable Chief Minister of West Bengal declared that Kanyashree K3 for young lady understudies at present learning at any university. This K3 grant will help the young girls to seek education after her Higher Studies.
Qualification Criteria for K3
• Understudies enlisted for K2 plot are qualified for K3 scheme.
• To apply Kanyashree K3 plot, understudies need to pass undergraduate qualification with in any event 45% checks and took affirmation on any Postgraduate course under any university.
• There is no any most extreme age cutoff to apply for Kanyashree K3 Prakalpa.
Grant Amount
The first is an Annual motivation of Rs. 750/ - to be paid every year to the young ladies in the age bunch 13 to 18 years (concentrating in Class VIII comparable or above for consistently that they stayed in training if they are unmarried at the time.
The second is a One-Time Grant of Rs. 25,000/-, to be paid after a young lady turns 18, given that she was occupied with a scholarly or word related interest and was unmarried.
K-3 Component of the plan is on the off chance that they get in any event 45% checks in Graduation furthermore, select themselves for Post Graduate courses in the State of West Bengal. For seeking after Post Graduate examinations in Arts and Commerce, every K-3 recipient will get Rs.2000/- p.m. also, for seeking after Post Graduate investigations in Science, each K-3 recipient will get Rs.2500/-p.m.
Other winners
The winner in the Latin America-Caribbean Group was Argentina where in Santa Fe, the metropolitan body had propelled a program for early youth instruction.
In the Western Group, the champ was the UK's Avon and Somerset Constabulary which has assembled a program to keep senior residents from being duped.
The Public Service Awards were propelled in 2003. The current year's champs were declared amid the UN Public Service Forum "The Future is Now - Accelerating Public Service Innovation for Agenda 2030".
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