With the aim of eliminating gender discrimination, the rural municipality has provided an incentive allowance of Rs 3,000 to mothers who give birth to girls.
Beldandi Rural Municipality has arranged an allowance of Rs 3,000 as an incentive for parents who give birth to a daughter.
The rural municipality has arranged an incentive allowance of Rs 3,000 for mothers who give birth to girls with the aim of eliminating gender discrimination.
Rural municipality vice-chairman Shanti Nath said that the incentive allowance has been arranged for mothers who give birth to girls to stop the trend of having sex-identified abortions. 'From the financial year 2079/80, an incentive allowance has been arranged for mothers who give birth to girls under the 'Vapadhyay Koseli' program,' said vice-chairman Nath, 'So far, 353 mothers have received incentive allowance for giving birth to girls.'
According to her, in the current financial year, 40 mothers have been distributed incentive allowance at the rate of Rs 3,000 per person for giving birth to girls.
Since marriage registration and the birth certificate of the girl have to be brought when coming to receive the incentive allowance, it is expected to prevent child marriage. Before that, the municipality had been providing Rs 500 as nutrition allowance to mothers who gave birth to girls. Under the 'Vice President Koseli' program, free ambulance services have been provided to pregnant women in the municipality, while a 50 percent discount has been arranged for ambulances when referred to the district headquarters or outside.
She said that single women over the age of 35 are given a monthly allowance of 2,500 rupees. 'A monthly allowance has been provided to the third gender living in the municipality,' she said. 'A procedure has been made to provide clothing allowance to orphans and is in the implementation phase.'
