This is a welfare scheme by the GNCTD to provide financial assistance to poor widows for performing the marriage of their daughters and to provide financial assistance to the guardians including Homes/Institutions or foster parents of an orphan girl or an orphan girl for her marriage.
Samarth (Respite Care) scheme, launched by the Department of Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities, aims at setting up Samarth Centres for providing respite and residential care for the specified categories of Persons with Disability (PwD).
The scheme provides financial assistance for the physical & psychological rehabilitation of child victims of communal, caste, ethnic & terrorist violence with special reference to their care, education & training, besides promoting communal harmony,
Kerala Government has launched a noble initiative “Snehapoorvam Scheme” to provide financial assistance to orphans who are living in the family, with their relatives, friends, or the support of the community under the Social Welfare Department implemented through Social Security Mission.
“Annai Teresa Ninaivu Marriage Assistance Scheme for Orphan Girls-I” was launched by the Social Welfare and Women Empowerment Dept, Govt of Tamil Nadu. The scheme provides financial assistance to the orphan girls for their marriage. The bride should be 18 years or older during her marriage.
A scholarship scheme by the Student Development Cell (StDC) of All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) to provide encouragement and support to orphans, wards of parents who died due to Covid-19, wards of Armed Forces, and Central Paramilitary Forces martyred in action (Shaheed).
“Annai Teresa Ninaivu Marriage Assistance Scheme for Orphan Girls-I” was launched by the Social Welfare and Women Empowerment Dept, Govt of Tamil Nadu. The scheme provides financial assistance to the orphan girls for their marriage. The bride should be 18 years or older during her marriage.
The “Bal Ashrams” have been established by the Social Welfare Dept, Govt. of Jammu and Kashmir, to create a society free from child labor, where all children receive free, compulsory, quality, and meaningful education. Orphans and destitute children are provided free schooling, boarding and lodging.
The scheme is implemented by the Sainik and Ardh Sainik Welfare Department, Government of Haryana. Under this scheme, financial assistance of ₹51,000 is provided for the marriage of each dependent orphan daughter of an ex-serviceman, for up to two daughters, who are at least 18 years old.
The scheme aims to provide financial assistance and rehabilitation support to destitute individuals who are orphaned, abandoned by their parents, or have no one to care for them. Beneficiaries receive one-time financial aid and support for admission to day-care centers or old-age homes.
The “Green Passage Scheme” Scheme provides free higher education to children without biological or adoptive parents. After the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, the scheme was revised to as well cover children who lost their both parents or single parent during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The “Palak Mata-Pita Yojana” introduced on 29th August, 2009 by the Social Justice and Empowerment Department, Gujarat, provides a monthly assistance of ₹3000 to foster parents raising orphaned children or children whose mother has remarried after the father’s death.
“Annath Pension Yojana (JBOCWWB)” is a scheme by the Department of Labour, Employment, Training & Skill Development Govt of Jharkhand. In case of the death of the pensioner, the pension will be payable at the rate of the family pension and will be evenly divided among orphans below 18 years of age.
The “Sanjay Gandhi Niradhar Grant Scheme” is a scheme by the Dept. of Social Justice & Special Assistance, Govt. of Maharashtra. Financial assistance of ₹600/- per month is given if there is only one beneficiary in the eligible family, and ₹900/- per month if there is one beneficiary in a family.
“Scheme for Welfare of Children in Need of Care and Protection” is a Social Welfare Scheme by the Directorate of Women & Child Development, Govt. of Goa. The objective of this scheme is to assist the Voluntary Organizations that cater to the needs of destitute and orphans up to the age of 18 years.
Under the scheme, financial assistance of ₹3,000/‐ per month shall be granted to those Orphan Children of Ex-Servicemen only who are bonafide resident of the Haryana State and are not in receipt of any kind of financial assistance from any Department of Haryana Government.
The Foster Care Scheme (Vatsalaya) is being implemented by the Department of Women & Child Development, Government of Goa to provide temporary/substitute care for children in difficult circumstances, whose parents are unable to care for them due to illness, death, and desertion of parent, etc.
The objective of this scheme is to support the education of girls who have lost their fathers and are studying in government schools. Under this scheme, scholarships ranging from ₹350/- to ₹450/- are provided to eligible girls from Class 1 to Class 12.
The scheme aims to protect and support the thousands of children living in slums and on the streets of Goa, also orphans and runaways escaping poverty, neglect or abuse. These children are often at great risk from malnutrition, illness and neglect, and need a helping hand in healthcare, shelter etc.
“Dayanand Bandodkar Scheme for Higher Education for Orphans” supports the educational needs of orphan children who are deprived of higher education for want of financial resources. The Scheme envisages taking care of such children from their Undergraduate Course to the Post Graduate Course.