Govt to extend housing, health schemes’benefits to triple talaq, acid attack victims

Lucknow: To ensure tangible support and social security to acid attack and triple talaq survivors, the Uttar Pradesh govt has decided to extend them housing and health benefits under various welfare schemes.Chief minister Yogi Adityanath issued directions in this regard during a meeting to review various schemes being implemented by the state women and child development department.“The CM upheld the need to support survivors in both the categories so that they can lead a dignified life,” an official said, adding that he directed the WCD department to take concrete steps to provide social, economic, and health empowerment of women.“To realise the CM’s vision, the govt is now preparing to list acid attack and triple talaq survivors as beneficiaries of Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana, Mukhyamantri Awas Yojana, Ayushman Bharat Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana, and Mukhyamantri Jan Arogya Yojana to such women,” the official said.He said that the women and child development department has been identified as nodal department for exercise, adding that preparations to implement the CM’s directions had begun.“The department is now collecting data of the number of women affected by triple talaq and acid attacks so that those in need may get help,” he said, informing that once data was verified, a govt order would be issued.Officials said that the CM has issued instructions that no eligible woman was deprived of govt schemes due to lack of information or procedural complexities.Women affected by acid attacks often require long-term treatment, surgeries, and rehabilitation. Similarly, many women affected by triple talaq face economic and social insecurity.