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GOVERNMENT OF PUDUCHERRY

WOMEN AND CHILD DEVELOPMENT SECRETARIAT

[G.O. Ms. No. 3/2015-WCD(SW-IV)/528, dated 13th March 2015]

NOTIFICATION

Consequent on the enhancement of the annual family income

ceiling limit of families of Economically Weaker Sections (EWS) from

` 24,000 to ` 75,000 as household income per annum for availing welfare

measures in the Union territory of Puducherry, issued in G.O. Ms.

No. 1/PRD/PF/2014, dated 8th September 2014 of the Planning and

Research Department, Puducherry, the Lieutenant-Governor, Puducherry

is pleased to approve the enhancement of the household income ceiling

limit in respect of the following schemes implemented by the Department

of Women and Child Development, Puducherry and for the said purpose

hereby makes the following further amendment to the said rules, namely:—

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AMENDMENT

I. In the rules for the Grant of Financial Assistance under

the Kulavilakku Scheme, 2000, for sub-rule (ii) of rule 3 and wherever

applicable, the following shall be substituted, namely:—

(i) “3(ii) The beneficiary shall belong to a household, whose

annual income shall not exceed ` 75,000.”

II. In sub-rule (ii) of rule 3 of the Rules for the Grant of Financial

Assistance under the Aravanaippu Scheme, 2000, for the letters and

figures “Rs. 24,000” and wherever applicable, the symbol and figures

“` 75,000” shall be substituted.

III. In sub-rule (b) of rule 2 and in sub-rule (ii) of rule 4 of the

Rules for Grant of Marriage Allowance towards Marriage of Daughters

of Destitute Widows, for the letters and figures “Rs. 24,000” and

wherever applicable, the symbol and figures “` 75,000” shall be

substituted.

IV. In the Reimbursement of Tuition Fees for the Children of

Widows in Typewriting, Shorthand and Computer Rules, 1985, for

clause (b) of rule 2 and wherever applicable, the following shall be

substituted, namely:-

“(b) Widow means a woman, whose husband is dead and whose

annual income from all sources does not exceed Rupees seventy-five

thousand, subject to modification by Government from time

to time.”

V. In sub-rule (5) of rule 3 of the Incentive for Widow's Re-marriage

Rules, 1981, for the letters and figures “Rs. 24,000” and wherever

applicable, the symbol and figures “` 75,000” shall be substituted.

VI. In the Rules for the Grant of Financial Assistance for

Performance of Marriage of Poor Brides living Below Poverty Line, 2003

in the Union territory of Puducherry,—

(i) for clause (i) of rule 1, for the existing short title, the following

shall be substituted, namely:-

“These rules may be called the Rules for the Grant of Financial

Assistance for Performance of Marriage of Poor Brides living in

the Union territory of Puducherry.”

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(ii) in sub-rule (iii) of rule 2 of the said rule, the words “in respect

of those living below poverty line” occurring after the words "by the

Government of Pondicherry" shall be omitted.

(iii) in sub-rule (ii) of rule 3 of the said rule, for the letters and

figures “Rs. 24,000” and wherever applicable the symbol and figures

“` 75,000” shall be substituted.

VII. In sub-rule (ii) of rule 4 of the Rules for the Grant of Incentive

to the Family having one girl/two girl children and the parents who have

undergone Family Planning, for the letters and figures, “Rs. 60,000” and

wherever applicable, the symbol and figures “` 75,000” shall be

substituted.

VIII. In the Rules for the Grant of Financial Assistance to Poor

Parents having only one girl child who is studying 8th to 10th Standard,

for sub-rule (i) of rule 4 and wherever applicable, the following shall be

substituted, namely:-

“(i) The annual income of the parents from all sources shall not

exceed ` 75,000.”

IX. In rules 3 and 4, and in Appendix I and II of the Puducherry

Old Age Persons and Destitute Pension Rules, 2011, for the letters and

figures “Rs. 24,000” wherever they occur, the symbol and figures

“` 75,000” shall be substituted.

4. This issues with the concurrence of the Finance Department,

vide their U.O. No. 3550/F5/A2, dated 27-2-2015.

5. The amendment shall be deemed to have come into force with

effect from 8-9-2014.

(By order of the Lieutenant-Governor)

M. GUNASEKARAN,

Under Secretary to Government (WCD.).

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