{"id":90147,"date":"2019-10-12T17:04:23","date_gmt":"2019-10-12T11:34:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=10869"},"modified":"2019-10-12T17:04:23","modified_gmt":"2019-10-12T11:34:23","slug":"kanyashree-scheme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/kanyashree-scheme\/","title":{"rendered":"Kanyashree scheme"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>News:<\/strong>West Bengal government has decided to set up Kanyashree University in Nadia district and Kanyashree colleges across the state so as to empower girls.&nbsp;<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Facts:<\/strong><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>About Kanyashree scheme:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The Kanyashree scheme was started by the West Bengal government to empower girls in 2013.&nbsp;<\/li><li>In 2017,the Kanyashree scheme won the United Nations for Public Service award for its Kanyashree scheme.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Objectives:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>To ensure that girls study in schools and delay their marriages until they attain 18 years of age.&nbsp;<\/li><li>To empower girls from school to university level so that they can become independent women.&nbsp;<\/li><li>To improve the status and well-being of girls, particularly those from socio- economically disadvantaged families through conditional cash transfers.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Components of the scheme:<\/strong>The scheme has two cash transfer components<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>An annual incentive of Rs 750 is given to girls in the age group 13 to 18 years old and studying in Class 8 for every year till they continue their education\u2013provided they are unmarried at the time.<\/li><li>One-time grant of Rs 25,000 is also given to girls once they attain the age of 18 years, provided they are engaged in an academic or occupational pursuit and unmarried.<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News:West Bengal government has decided to set up Kanyashree University in Nadia district and Kanyashree colleges across the state so as to empower girls.&nbsp; Facts: About Kanyashree scheme: The Kanyashree scheme was started by the West Bengal government to empower girls in 2013.&nbsp; In 2017,the Kanyashree scheme won the United Nations for Public Service award&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/kanyashree-scheme\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Kanyashree scheme<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1731],"tags":[1752,1754],"class_list":["post-90147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bill-and-acts","tag-kanyashree","tag-west-bengal","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90147","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\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90147\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}