Under the Rashtriya Pariwar Sahayata Yojana (RPSY) run by the State social welfare department, Rs12 crore financial assistance has been given to 11,577 families of Chhattisgarh.
Under this scheme, now, at a time Rs20,000 financial assistance is being provided to the kin of the below poverty line beneficiary family, on the natural or sudden death of its male or female head between 18 and 60 years old, on whose earning the family survives. Earlier, the assistance amount was Rs10,000.
Officers of the social welfare department said that in the RPSY operated under the Rashtriya Samajik Sahayata programme, Rs11,91,10,000 financial assistance had been given to 11,577 families of the State during the financial year 2012-13.
They said that 1300 families of Raipur, 570 families of Balodabazar, 271 families of Gariaband, 549 families of Mahasamund, 519 families of Dhamtari, 317 families of Durg, 234 families of Balod, 240 families of Bemethara, 892 families of Rajnandgaon, 290 of Kabirdham, 522 of Bastar, 287 of Kondagaon, 68 of Dantewada, 173 of Sukma, 292 of Kanker and 180 families of Bijapur districts were benefited from this scheme.
Relief amount has been given to 160 families of Narayanpur, 840 families of Bilaspur, 31 families of Munger, 775 families of Korba, 333 families of Janjgir-Champa, 790 families of Raigarh, 130 families of Jashpur, 282 families of Sarguja, 117 families of Balrampur, 108 families of Surajpur and 307 families of Korea districts, they added.