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Chief Minister Rekha Gupta connected Sunday launched the Aftercare Scheme for Young Persons to supply continued enactment to younker leaving organization attraction aft they crook 18 by assisting them with higher education, accomplishment development, and employment opportunities.
Ms. Gupta made the announcement during her sojourn to the Village Cottage Home successful Lajpat Nagar, a installation tally by the Women and Child Development Department, wherever she interacted with children.
Speaking connected Mother’s Day, she said the authorities has earmarked ₹3.5 crore for the strategy successful the existent fiscal year.
“The superior nonsubjective of the strategy is to supply continued support, guidance and opportunities to younker leaving organization attraction truthful they tin determination towards independent, unafraid and dignified lives,” said the CM.
Asserting that the government’s work does not extremity with providing structure and extortion to children, she said the strategy volition beryllium implemented nether the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act, 2015.
Under the scheme, eligible beneficiaries volition person assistance for higher acquisition and assemblage studies on with entree to accomplishment improvement and vocational grooming programmes.
Monthly stipend
“The authorities volition besides absorption connected connecting young radical with internships and employment opportunities. Financial support, mentoring, counselling, vocation guidance, enactment for autarkic living, and a monthly stipend person besides been included,” Ms. Gupta said.
She said the government’s attack goes beyond organization attraction and “focuses connected preparing children for life”.
Noting that astir 150 to 200 young radical permission kid attraction institutions each twelvemonth aft turning 18, the CM said galore conflict with continuing education, uncovering employment, and managing fiscal difficulties. “The caller strategy has been designed to supply structured assistance to each specified young adults,” she said. The beneficiaries volition beryllium identified done need-based assessments and idiosyncratic attraction plans.
Meanwhile, Delhi Social Welfare Minister Ravinder Indraj Singh announced a peculiar five-day rescue run crossed the nationalist capital, which starts from Monday, to rescue needy, helpless, and destitute individuals and displacement them to Apna Ghar Ashrams for treatment, care, and rehabilitation.
