CentralSC / ST & Reserved CategoryPM CARES Children
PM CARES for Children Scheme
Comprehensive support for children who lost both parents or legal guardians to COVID-19, including free education, monthly stipend, health insurance, and a lump sum corpus of ₹10 lakh.
About this scheme
Launched to support children who lost both parents or legal guardians to the COVID-19 pandemic. The scheme provides a convergent approach to ensure comprehensive care, including financial corpus creation, educational support, monthly stipends, and health insurance to empower them for a self-sufficient future.
Eligibility
- Citizenship: Must be an Indian citizen
- Loss of parent(s) to COVID-19: Must have lost both parents, or surviving parent, or legal guardian/adoptive parents to COVID-19 between March 11, 2020 and May 5, 2023
- Age at time of loss: Must have been under 18 years of age on the date of death of parent(s)
Benefits
- Lump sum of ₹10 lakh upon attaining 23 years of age
- Monthly stipend between ages 18–23
- Free education in KVS, Navodaya Vidyalayas, or private schools
- Annual scholarship of ₹20,000 for school-going children
- Free health insurance cover of ₹5 lakh under Ayushman Bharat (PM-JAY) until age 23
Required documents
- Death certificate of parent(s) mentioning COVID-19
- Child’s birth certificate
- Aadhaar card of the child and guardian
- Bank account details of the child
- Statement from the Child Welfare Committee (CWC) or District Magistrate (DM)
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