PMMVY: Health Dept extends coverage to over 58,000 beneficiaries till May 20 in FY 2022

Gandhinagar: The state health department has completed the task of bringing 58,743 more beneficiaries under coverage of the Pradhan Mantri Matru Vandana Yojana (PMMVY) till May 20, 2022 this financial year. State government has set target of expanding coverage of this scheme to 6 lakh more beneficiaries in the current financial year.

To achieve the target of 6 lakh beneficiaries in the current financial year, districts and municipal corporations are being given weekly targets and progress of the work is also reviewed every week.

For the fiscal 2021-22, the health department succeeded in surpassing the target of expanding coverage under PMMVY of 3 lakh beneficiaries, extending the reach of the scheme to 3,18,359 more beneficiaries.

The Union Ministry for Women and Child Development in 2017 began offering financial assistance to the tune of Rs 5,000 to every mother at the time of birth of their children. According to made data available by the central government, this scheme has extended coverage to 1.28 crore women beneficiaries and Rs 5,280 crores have been transferred directly into the bank account of the beneficiaries in the five years since its launching. DeshGujarat