Mukhyamantri Kanya Utthaan Yojana

  • P Project/Program

A Active

Key Information

Mukhyamantri Kanya Utthaan Yojana is a scheme by the Government of Bihar to encourage girls from this state to attain higher education. The scheme will provide financial assistance to girls from their birth untill they graduate. The program is a holistic scheme, formulated to provide protection, healthcare and education to girls as well as to make them self-dependent. It aims to stop female foeticide and child marriages, improve the sex ratio, and encourage the registration and vaccination of girls. The scheme would be jointly implemented by the departments of social welfare, health and education. Under this scheme, an amount of about ₹ 50,000 (Rupee) will be provided to the girls. This financial assistance will be provided through different installments. About 1.50 ten million girls will be able to get benefits through the Mukhyamantri Kanya Utthan Yojana. Only two daughters of a family can take advantage of this scheme. The students must belong to the EWS (Economically Weaker Section) category. Funds will also be provided by the government to buy sanitary napkins and uniforms under the Mukhyamantri Kanya Utthan Yojana.

Lead Implementing Government(s)

India

Location(s)

South Asia

India

Activity URL

https://www.tesz.in/guide/mukhyamantri-kanya-utthaan-yojana

Government Affiliation
Government-affiliated program
Years

Not applicable or unknown

Partner(s)

Not applicable or unknown

Ministry Affiliation
Departments of Social Welfare, Health and Education
Funder(s)

Not applicable or unknown

COVID-19 Response
Unknown
Geographic Scope
National
Meets gender-transformative education criteria from the TES  
Unknown
Areas of Work Back to Top
Education areas
Attainment
  • Primary completion
  • Primary to secondary transition
  • Secondary completion
Other skills
  • Rights/empowerment education
Quality
  • School quality
  • School-related gender-based violence
Skills
  • Literacy
  • Numeracy
Cross-cutting areas
  • Adolescent pregnancy/childbearing
  • Community sensitization
  • Economic/livelihoods (including savings/financial inclusion, etc.)
  • Empowerment
  • Gender equality
  • Other cultural practices
  • Social and gender norms and beliefs
Program participants

Target Audience(s)

Girls (both in school and out of school), Youth

Age

Not applicable or unknown

School Enrolment Status

Some in school

School Level

  • Lower primary
  • Upper primary
  • Lower secondary
  • Upper secondary
Other populations reached
  • None
Participants include
  • Orphans and vulnerable children
Program Approaches Back to Top
Life skills education
  • Gender, rights and power
Menstrual hygiene management
  • Sanitary product distribution
Other
  • Other activities to address/end violence (not captured above)
Reducing economic barriers
  • Addressing cost of school supplies
  • Conditional cash transfers (including non-cash goods) to individuals/households
  • Reducing/eliminating school fees
  • Uniforms
Tutoring/strengthening academic skills
  • Literacy - in the classroom
Program Goals Back to Top
Education goals
  • Improved academic skills (literacy and numeracy)
  • Increased grade attainment
  • Increased school completion (general)
  • Increased test scores
  • Increased years of schooling
Cross-cutting goals
  • Changed social norms
  • Improved critical consciousness
  • Improved health - other
  • More equitable gender attitudes and norms
  • Reduced child marriage