Tribune News ServiceChandigarh, June 4
Aruna Chaudhary, Social Security, Women and Child Development Minister, today said the department had found a total of 23 children who lost both their parents t
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Tribune News Service
Chandigarh, June 3
A move by six Punjab ministers led by Sukhjinder Randhawa and Charanjit Channi to boycott Wednesday's virtual Cabinet meeting backfired as othe
LUDHIANA: Ludhiana deputy commissioner Varinder Kumar Sharma on Friday launched the Punjab government s ambitious Udaan programme in the district. Under the scheme, free sanitary pads would be given to girls who have dropped out of school and underprivileged women every month.
Women and child development minister Aruna Chaudhary on the occasion of International Menstrual Hygiene Day, the deputy commissioner said that nine sanitary pads would be delivered to each beneficiary per month through anganwadi workers.
He said the girls, young women not attending college, women from BPL families, women of slum areas/homeless women, migratory women, and every needy woman who are not covered under any scheme would be beneficiary of this programme.
On the launch ceremony, one lakh packets of sanitary pads were distributed at 1,500 online locations as well as at other Anganwari centres in the state, the statement said.
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Chandigarh, April 14
The Punjab Government will spend at least 30 per cent of funds under all government schemes for the welfare of the state’s Scheduled Caste (SC) population.
This was announced on Wednesday by Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh, along with a host of other measures for the uplift of the Dalit community as a mark of homage to Dr BR Ambedkar.
Paying tributes to the architect of the Indian Constitution on his 130th birth anniversary at a virtual state-level event, the Chief Minister also announced filling of the backlog of SC vacancies backlog in all departments on priority, while promising to explore a post-matric overseas scholarship scheme for SC students on the lines of the Baroda State Scholarship Scheme awarded to Baba Sahib under a scheme established by Sayajirao Gaekwad-III.