Government of India has extended the PM Cares for Children Scheme till 28<\/span>th<\/span> February, 2022.<\/span><\/p>\n Implementing Ministry: <\/b>Ministry of Women and Child Development in 2021<\/span><\/p>\n Objective: <\/b>To ensure comprehensive care and protection of children who have lost their parent(s) to the COVID pandemic in a sustained manner.<\/span><\/p>\n Eligibility for the Scheme: <\/b>All children who have lost Both parents or surviving parents or legal guardian\/adoptive parents\/single adoptive parent due to COVID 19 pandemic starting from March 2020 shall be entitled to benefits under this scheme.<\/span> Click Here to read about it<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n Source: <\/b>This post is based on the article <\/span>\u201c<\/b>PM CARES for Children Scheme Extended up to 28th February, 2022<\/b>\u201d <\/b>published in<\/span> PIB <\/b>on<\/span> 23rd February 2022.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" What is the News? Government of India has extended the PM Cares for Children Scheme till 28th February, 2022. What is the PM Cares for Children Scheme? Implementing Ministry: Ministry of Women and Child Development in 2021 Objective: To ensure comprehensive care and protection of children who have lost their parent(s) to the COVID pandemic… Continue reading PM CARES for Children Scheme Extended up to 28th February, 2022<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,956,9,959],"tags":[3590],"class_list":["post-170480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-schemes-and-programs","category-public","category-schemes","tag-pib","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704894963},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170480\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}What is the PM Cares for Children Scheme?<\/b><\/h5>\n
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\n<\/span>Note:<\/b> Child should not have completed 18 years of age on the date of death of parents.<\/span><\/p>\nEntitlements under the scheme:<\/b><\/h5>\n