Life Skill Education and accessing public services
Vocational training for girls aged 16 and above under National Skill Development Program (NSDP)
Other programmes for the development and growth of the girl child
Children's homes to take care of orphans, semi orphans, children of disabled parents and ex-service men.
Home for Collegiate to extend further care to the inmates of children's home after completion of 10th class
Girl Child Protection Scheme to combat with biasness against girl child, by depositing Rs. 5,000/ at the age of 3 years of the child for a period of 20 years. The accurate interest can be disbursed at periodical intervals like on the enrollment in primary (Rs.500/), in the 10th (Rs. 1000/) and the balance at the time of marriage or maturity of deposits whichever is clearly.
Telugu Bala mahila Pragathi Pranganam for skill development to promote self employment and sensitize the trained women in various developmental programmes.
Supply of Iron and Folic Acid and Deworming tablets to break the intergeneration of malnutrition cycle
Anemia Control Programme by supplying Iron capsules for a period of 100 days to those who are nutritionally anemic .
Organising Balika Mandals through girl to girl approach to mould adolescent girls as social change agents.
Other schemes:
Jayalalitha Protection Scheme for the Girl Child (October 1992) inTamilnadu The goal of the scheme was the total elimination of female infanticide by the year 2000. Under its provisions, a poor family with one or two girls and no sons would be eligible for monetary incentives if one parent agreed to be sterilized. Money given in the name of the infant girl and would be held in a fixed deposit account until she reached 21 years of age. Further, when the girls went to school, the family would periodically receive grants for educational expenses. This scheme was intended to cover 20,000 families every year. In Salem district 614 girls actually received this benefit over a period of eighteen months. The government also committed itself to undertaking the identification of ‘high risk areas’ where the practice was prevalent. In august 1997 the Indian Prime Minister had sought to emulate this scheme by announcing a similar one for the entire country without the condition of one parent should be sterilized as in ‘Jayalalitha Scheme’. A series of financial incentives were to be made available to every poor family, which had two surviving girl children. The direct, involvement of the panchayats many make the process less tedious and possibly reduced the transaction costs for eligible families.
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