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Newdelhi:6/2/24:The mandate of the Department of Social Justice and Empowerment (DoSJE) is to take care of the welfare of the poorest households of the socially, educationally and economically marginalized sections of the society including Scheduled Castes (SCs), Other Backward Classes, Senior Citizens, Victims of Alcoholism and Substance Abuse, Sanitation Workers, Transgender Persons, Beggars, De-notified and Nomadic Tribes (DNTs), Economically Backward Classes (EBCs), Economically Weaker Section (EWS).

The DoSJE is implementing three schemes namely National Action Plan for Drug Demand Reduction (NAPDDR), Scheme for Residential Education for Students in High Schools in Targeted Areas (SHRESHTA) and Integrated Programme for Senior Citizens (IPSrC), a component of the scheme of Atal Vayo Abhyuday Yojana (AVYAY), under which financial assistance is provided to NGOs for Social Welfare. The details of total funds released and number of persons benefited from such NGOs all across India during last five years are given below-

 

Details of the funds released and number of persons benefited from financial year 2018-19 to financial year 2022-23 under various schemes of DoSJE.

    2018-19 2019-20 2020-21 2021-22 2022-23
Sr. No. Name of Scheme Funds released (Rs. In Crore) Number of Persons Benefitted Funds

released (Rs. In Crore)

 Number of Persons Benefitted Funds released (Rs. In Crore) Number of Persons Benefitted Funds released (Rs. In Crore) Number of Persons Benefitted Funds released (Rs. In Crore) Number of Persons Benefitted
1. National Action Plan for

Drug Demand Reduction

 79.99 77479 108.93 93364 145.63 208415 90.93 286402 97.51 339588
2. Integrated Programme for Senior

Citizens

(IPSrC)

 65.07 34920 106.20 109085 122.58 136440 93.19 139385 72.31 87745
3. Scheme for Residential

Education

for Students in High Schools in

Targeted

Areas

(SHRESHTA)

 18.57 10370 46.97 24380 44.31 20175 28.48 19350 23.16 14074

 

This information was given by the Minister of State for Social Justice and Empowerment Shri A. Narayanaswamy in a written reply to a question in Lok Sabha today.

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