Government announces portal to register children orphaned by COVID-19

July 23, 2021

Details of any child orphaned due to COVID-19 can be shared with the government via a web portal and the child will have a claim to benefits under the PM CARES scheme. www.pmcaresforchildren.in is the website through which details can be uploaded.

Highlights

On July 15, 2021, the government has introduced this portal for all the States and Union Territories of the country.
Through this portal any citizen can inform the administration regarding the children who are eligible for receiving support under this scheme.
In the month of May the Prime Minister had approved a scheme under the PM CARES fund for all those children who have lost both or lone surviving parent or an adoptive parent or a legal guardian due to COVID-19 disease.
Under this scheme a corpus of Rs 10 lakh to each child will be provided when he or she turns 18 years old.
A monthly stipend will be provided to the child from the age of 18 for the next five years to help them with their higher education.
When the child attains the age of 23, they will receive the lump sum corpus amount at one go.
Under the Ayushman Bharat Scheme the government of India will also help with their school education and provide those children with a health insurance cover of Rs 5 lakh.

According to official data, between 1^st April, 2021 and 28 May, 2021 a total of 645 children were orphaned due to COVID-19. According to the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights, from the date 1^st April, 2020 to 5^th June, 2021, 3621 children were orphaned due to COVID-19 and at least 26,176 had lost a single parent because of this COVID-19 pandemic.

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