The scheme “Aahar Anudan Yojana” provides monthly assistance of ₹1,000 to students, girls, and women from backward tribes like Baiga, Bharia, and Saharia. The scheme aims to combat malnutrition among special tribal families by ensuring access to nutritious food through financial assistance.
The scheme aims to impart basic education, nutrition, and awareness to tribal children aged 6–12. The scheme offers meals, learning material, and other support through community-run centres.
Under this scheme, a cash gift of ₹2,000 /- would be paid to those women who ensured 48 hours stay for delivery of their child in the government hospitals or health care centres.
The programme aims to enhance the nutritional level of normal/malnourished/severely malnourished children aged 6 months to 6 years, as well as pregnant women and lactating mothers, through Anganwadi centers. This programme is centrally sponsored with a funding ratio of 50:50.
Under the scheme, women who conceive their second child and fulfill the prescribed conditions will receive cash assistance of ₹6,000/-, paid in five installments.
The Labor Department of Chhattisgarh started this scheme on March 4, 2010, under the “Building and Construction Workers Welfare Board” for female construction workers. Under the scheme registered female construction workers will receive benefits during pregnancy.