Ajit Karn
Lucknow: In its budget for the fiscal year 2023–24, the Yogi Adityanath government put a lot of emphasis on women’s welfare. This is to make sure that women are empowered and lifted in every way.
The UP government has put money aside in the budget just for girls. The Yogi government has set aside more than 4,000 crore rupees to help widows who are poor and alone. In the budget, 1050 crore is set aside for the Kanya Sumangala Yojana for the financial year 2023–2024. At the same time, the Chief Minister’s Mass Marriage Scheme has been given 600 crore.
Widows who have no money are taken care of with Rs. 4032 crore.
In the Yogi government’s budget, there is a plan for a marriage grant programme for the daughters of poor people from other backward classes. This programme would cost 150 crore. In the same way, 63 crore has been set aside for the Mahila Samarthya Yojana in the financial year 2023–2024, and 4032 crore has been set aside for maintenance and nutrition grants for widows who are poor.
Under the Uttar Pradesh Rani Laxmibai Mahila and Bal Samman Kosh Yojana, the Yogi government has set aside 56 crore in the budget for the financial year 2023-2024 to help women and girls who have been victims of heinous violence with money and medical care.
In the same way, the Uttar Pradesh Rural Livelihood Mission and NAFED have carried out the plan to give extra nutritious food to children between the ages of six months and six years, pregnant women, and nursing mothers in the form of “take home rations.” This is done through the nutritious food production units that have been set up. In the budget, 291 crore has been set aside for this.
In this year’s budget, the government set aside 25 crore for health insurance for Anganwadi workers as part of the Ayushman Bharat programme. A national nutrition campaign will also be run with the goal of reducing malnutrition in children up to age six and anaemia in pregnant and breastfeeding women. A budget of 455 billion and 52 million has been set aside for this.
At the same time, the Atal Residential School is being built so that the children of the people working on the building can go to school. These schools will start running in the 2023–2024 school year. A budget of 63 crore has been set aside for the rest of the building, and about 50 crore has been set aside for buying equipment and other things.
In the same way, when registered women workers gave birth in a hospital under the “Maternity, Child and Child Support Scheme,” the Yogi government gave the wives of registered male workers a lump sum equal to three months’ minimum wage and a medical bonus of 1,000 and 6,000.
