The Uttarakhand government will launch a special Devbhoomi Pariwar Yojana to identify families living in the state. The Pushkar Singh Dhami cabinet on Wednesday also decided to increase the compensation amount for Dharali disaster victims in Uttarkashi.
In a significant step on Wednesday, the Dhami cabinet gave its in-principle approval to the implementation of special scheme “Devbhoomi Parivar Yojana” (Devbhoomi Family Scheme) for the identification of families residing in the state of Uttarakhand.
According to officials, the main objective of the family scheme is not only to identify families in the state but also create special identification IDs for them. This, according to the cabinet decision, will help integrate social-welfare schemes, being run in the state with the beneficiary families’ IDs and facilitate them directly under the schemes.
The scheme proposes creation of a comprehensive database of the families in the Himalayan state and provide them with unique family identification numbers. Besides linking family Unique Identification Numbers of the beneficiaries with government social welfare schemes, families included in it will be able to access their benefits online directly in a click.
In another important decision, the state cabinet stamped the proposal for increasing the ex gratia amount for disaster victims in Dharali and other parts of the state.
As per cabinet decision, the assistance for families of deceased has been increased from present ₹4 lakh to ₹5 lakh.
Compensation for damaged concrete (Permanent) houses will be ₹5 lakh. Apart from this cabinet has also decided to increase one lakh rupees financial assistance from CM relief fund in addition to the amount fixed as per norms for disaster relief compensation to the damaged kuchha house owners.