Under Central Government’s 'Sukanya Samriddhi Scheme', accounts of more than 3.19 lakh daughters have been opened in various banks and post offices of Chhattisgarh.
State's Women and Child Development Department is implementing the scheme in Chhattisgarh, officials informed.
Anganwadi workers and surveyors are being deployed for promotion and implementation of the scheme, Till date, 2.38 lakh accounts have been opened in post offices and 81,150 in banks. This scheme was started on December 2, 2014.
Women and Child Development Department officials informed that under this scheme, accounts in the name of girls of age below 10 years are opened in banks or post offices. Parents can get accounts opened in the name of their two daughters.
In this account, amount from minimum Rs 1000 to maximum Rs 1.5 lakh can be deposited in the name of the beneficiary girl in a year.
This amount will have to be deposited for 14 consecutive year or till the beneficiary girl reaches 21 years of age. After the beneficiary reaches 21 years of age, the account will be closed and parents will get the deposited amount. In case, the beneficiary girl is married between the age of 18-21 years, then the account will get automatically closed.
As per the rules of the schemes, the deposited amount can be withdrawn as the girl reaches 18 years of age. Interest of 9.1 per cent on the deposited amount has been provisioned under the scheme and the amount deposited under the scheme is also subjected to tax rebate under Income Tax Section 80 (c).
Department informed that under the scheme, accounts of 28, 476 girls of Raigarh district, 27 , 240 girls of Balod district, 26 ,085 girls of Raipur district, 25 ,951 girls of Jashpur district, 22 195 girls of Bilaspur district, 22 , 032 girls of Janjgir-Champa district, 12 , 880 girls of Mahasamund district, 12 ,575 girls of Kondagaon district, 12 , 180 girls of Durg district, 11 , 725 girls of Rajnandgaon district, 11 , 671 girls of North Bastar (Kanker) district, 11 ,395 girls of Gariaband district, 10, 986 girls of Balrampur-Ramanujganj, 9901 girls of Korba district, 9768 girls of Balodabazar-Bhatapara district, 9 428 girls of Sarguja district, 8 934 girls of Koriya district, 8 , 454 girls of Surajpur district, 8 , 250 girls of Bemetara district, 8 ,072 girls of South Bastar (Dantewada) district, 4704 girls of Dhamtari district, 3879 girls of Bastar district.