CMGCPSI
What this is
The 'Chief Minister’s Girl Child Protection Scheme-I' was launched by the Social Welfare and Women Empowerment Department, Govt. of Tamil Nadu. The scheme aims to provide financial assistance to girl children of poor families as well as to promote girl child education & eradicate female infanticide.
In detail
The 'Chief Minister’s Girl Child Protection Scheme-I' was launched by the Social Welfare and Women Empowerment Department, Government of Tamil Nadu. The scheme aims to provide financial assistance to girl children of poor families as well as to promote girl child education, small family norms, increase the child sex ratio, discourage the preference for male child & eradicate female infanticide.
Who qualifies
- The assistance is provided only for one girl child of the family.
- The annual income of the parents of the girl child should not exceed ₹72,000/-.
- One of the parents must have undergone sterilization before turning 40 years old.
- The family should have only one female child and no male child. In the future, no male child should be adopted.
- The parents/grandparents should be a native of Tamil Nadu by birth or continuous residence of not less than ten years at the time of applying to this scheme.
- The scheme is also applicable to the girl children of Sri Lankan Tamil Refugees in the Refugee Camps in Tamil Nadu.
What you get
- A fixed deposit (FD) of ₹50,000/- in the name of the girl child (A copy of the FD receipt is given to the family).
- Renewal of FD after five years.
- An annual incentive of ₹1,800/- from the 6th year of the FD.
- The amount deposited along with accrued interest is given to the girl child when she attains 18 years of age.
NOTE: The matured amount will be given to the girl child only if she appears for the 10th standard public exam.
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Provenance
| schemeName | Chief Minister’s Girl Child Protection Scheme-I | myScheme · 2026-09-02 |
| schemeOpenDate | ... | not published at source |
| schemeCloseDate | ... | not published at source |
| nodalMinistryName | ... | myScheme · 2026-09-02 |
| dbtScheme | False | myScheme · 2026-09-02 |
| achievement data | ... | no source publishes this for any central scheme |