Kanyashree Prakalpa

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Kanyashree
Mission statement To reduce dropout rate and prevent early marriage
Type of projectScholarship scheme for girls
Location West Bengal
Owner Government of West Bengal
Founder Mamata Banerjee
CountryIndia
Established8 March 2013 (2013-03-08)
StatusActive
Website www.wbkanyashree.gov.in

Kanyashree is an initiative taken by the Government of West Bengal to improve the life and the status of the girls by helping economically backward families with cash so that families do not arrange the marriage of their girl child before eighteen years because of economic problem. The purpose of this initiative is to uplift those girls who are from poor families and thus can't pursue higher studies due to tough economic conditions. It has been given international recognition by the United Nations Department of International Development and the UNICEF.

Contents

The scheme has two components:

  1. Annual scholarship of Rs. 1000.00
  2. One time grant of Rs. 25,000.00

The annual scholarship is for unmarried girls aged 13–18 years enrolled in class VIII-XII in government recognized regular or equivalent open school or vocational / technical training courses. Recently the bar of income is withdrawn by Gov. W.B. now every girl can apply for that scheme.

Scheme

Kanyashree Prakalpa has been designed to ensure that girls stay in school and delay their marriages till at least age of 18. Kanyashree's strategy is simple, keeping girls away from marriage till exact age and keeping them in the streamline of their education, to do that government facilitates these girls with financial aid. It has changed the behavioural attitude particularly who wants to marry their girl child before 18 years of age.

The Scheme has two conditional cash benefit components.

  1. The first is K1, an annual scholarship of Rs. 1000/- to be paid annually to the girls from 13 to 18 years of age group for every year that they remain in education, provided they are unmarried at the time. (Note: During the years 2013–14 and 2014-1 the annual scholarship was Rs. 500/-).
  2. The second benefit is K2, a one-time grant of 25,000/-, to be paid when girls turn 18, provided that they are engaged in an academic or occupations pursuit and are unmarried at the time.

The term 'education' encompasses secondary and higher secondary education, as well as the various vocational, technical and sports courses available for this age group. To ensure an equity focus, the scheme is open only to girls from families whose annual income is R. 1,20,000/- or less. For girls with special needs, girls who have lost both parents, as well as for girls currently residing in Juvenile Justice homes, this criterion is waived. Although the annual scholarship is payable only when girls reach Class VIII, this, criterion is waived for girls with special needs whose disability is 40% or more.

Award and recognition

The Scheme was appreciated as a good practice at:

Kanyashree Day

14 August is celebrated as Kanyashree Day to promote the scheme throughout the state. On August 14, 2013 state wide events were held to publicize the scheme. In Kolkata the event was presided over by the Chief Minister of West Bengal, Mamata Banerjee. Awareness campaigns were organized by the government in districts.

Kanyashree University

The state government of West Bengal is setting up Kanyashree University in Nadia district and Kanyashree colleges across the state so as to empower girls. The Kanyashree university would be only for women.Earlier in January 2019, the West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee laid the foundation stone of new Kanyashree university at Krishnagar in Nadia district.

Year-wise statistics

The following are Year-wise statistics: [4]

Scheme TypeAnnual Scholarship (K1)Renewal (K1)One-Time Grant (K2)Upgradation (K2)Total Application
2013–14Uploaded18,89,96001,44,197020,34,157
Sanctioned18,44,99001,38,965019,83,955
2014–15Uploaded7,69,94512,22,94249,1382,56,73722,98,762
Sanctioned7,59,06112,04,92146,1182,49,26622,59,366
2015–16Uploaded6,11,15415,83,07334,9793,01,87425,31,080
Sanctioned5,95,22115,76,21832,3792,96,96925,00,787
2016–17Uploaded7,39,75916,05,61525,1983,29,53327,00,105
Sanctioned7,09,51715,79,70323,7973,21,02826,34,045
2017–18Uploaded7,05,18417,48,3323,3193,94,77228,51,607
Sanctioned6,87,62317,36,1383,2703,89,39228,16,423
2018–19Uploaded8,08,67618,42,33416,7344,29,57730,97,321
Sanctioned8,05,48018,41,54416,3904,25,51230,88,926
2019–20Uploaded2,03,89617,72,79403,52,56223,29,252
Sanctioned1,52,74816,98,68002,52,21521,03,643
Till DateUploaded57,28,57497,75,0902,73,56520,65,0551,78,42,284
Sanctioned55,54,64096,37,2042,60,91919,34,3821,73,87,145

Similar programmes

A similar program was instituted in Bangladesh in 1982, called the Female Secondary School Stipend Program. It was first launched in six areas of the country and later extended to other areas owing to its success. [5]

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  2. ↑ "UN honours Mamata Banerjee with highest public service award for girl child project Kanyashree" . Retrieved 12 October 2017.
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  5. ↑ Mahmud, Simeen (2003). "Female secondary school stipend programme in Bangladesh" (PDF). Paper commissioned for the EFA Global Monitoring Report 2003/4, The Leap to Equality. Retrieved 4 February 2018.
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