- By Kamakshi Bishnoi
- Thu, 04 Dec 2025 10:34 PM (IST)
- Source:Jagran News Network
On the instructions of Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, the Labour Department has established clear category-wise priorities to connect working children with financial support and education under the Mukhyamantri Bal Shramik Vidya Yojana. The aim is to bring children who work at dhabas, hotels, factories, or other establishments due to family compulsions into the mainstream.
Assistant Labour Commissioner Bal Govind stated that in Bareilly, 500 children have benefited from this scheme so far. He said that the main objective of the scheme is that no child should have to work out of compulsion and that they can receive both education and security.
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The government has set nine priority categories for the selection of children under the scheme. Priority will be given to those children whose parents are both deceased, whose family's entire income depends on their work, and who have been identified as working children in the Labour Department's survey.
Children whose father has died, whose parents have a permanent disability, whose parents are suffering from a serious illness, whose family is headed by a widowed or divorced woman, whose mother has died or has a serious illness, and children from landless families have been included. In all categories, the child must have been identified as a working child in the survey.
The first phase in Uttar Pradesh includes Agra, Prayagraj, Kanpur Nagar, Ballia, Lucknow, Barabanki, Bareilly, Badaun, Ghaziabad, Gorakhpur, Gonda, Shravasti, Balrampur, Bahraich, Moradabad, Sonbhadra, Mirzapur, Jaunpur, Varanasi, and Ghazipur. In these 20 districts, 100 beneficiaries per district, meaning a total of 2,000 children, are to be given assistance.
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Under this, monthly financial assistance is being provided to children: Rs 1,000 for boys and Rs 1,200 for girls. If the beneficiary child continues their studies, an incentive amount of Rs 6,000 is also given for passing each of the classes 8, 9, and 10.