Odisha CM announces special scheme “Ashirbad” to provide financial support to orphans

Bhubaneswar, June 20

Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik today announced a special scheme to provide financial support to the orphans.

The scheme named as “Aashirbad”, is meant to offer financial support to the orphan children, who have lost both their parents, or either of the earning parents or the single parent.

Under the scheme, different slabs of financial support, the maximum being Rs. 2500 per month, have been envisioned for such children in distress who been orphaned on or after the 1st of April 2020.bm