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Kanyashree Scheme now entering the world of celluloid

Kanyashree Scheme now entering the world of celluloid

Kolkata, Aug 23 (UNI) After wowing the world at the United Nations Public Service Awards in The Hague last June, the Kanyashree Scheme is now entering the world of celluloid.
Not just Kanyashree but Yuvashree, Sabuj Sathi and others are also garnering the attention of everyone – schemes behind most of whose ideations lay the vision of Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, a vision which has made the governance of West Bengal the cynosure of all eyes in India.
Film-maker Suman Mukhopadhyay is going to make a film on the scheme.
According to the film-maker, the raw material for good Bengali films is taken from real-life events, and there is no bigger reality now than the successful running of such schemes.
Already plays have been staged with the ideas for the stories taken from the various schemes and their huge positive impacts.
Now comes the turn of films.
According to the director, the story of the film revolves around a girl named Ichha (meaning ‘wish’) and how the schemes of the government helped her to stand up for herself and become someone of worth to society.
Ichha is the daughter of poor parents living in a village.
Despite the tough conditions of her life, she dreams of becoming a doctor.
Kanyashree helps her to complete school, where she gets to eat through the Mi-Day Meal Scheme.
Her good performances in class result in her getting a bicycle through the Sabuj Sathi Scheme, to travel to school and back.
Her father gets work under the 100 Days’ Work Scheme, and the money he gets helps to run the family.
After successfully completing school, she comes to Kolkata to complete higher education and at this stage too, another scheme comes to her help – Yuvashree, through which she gets scholarship.
She completes her higher education successfully too, and through the help of her school teacher and a youth leader, she sees the flowering of her dreams.
In this way, it would be shown in the film how, at every stage of life, government schemes help Ichha to overcome the adversities of life and achieve success.
Kanyashree Prakalpa, the scheme launched by Mamata Banerjee in October 2013, two years after she became West Bengal chief minister, won her government the United Nations Public Service Award at The Hague.
India was named first in the Asia-Pacific group for the category: 'Reaching the Poorest and Most Vulnerable through Inclusive Services and Participation'.
The government of West Bengal was the awarded institution for Kanyashree which aims to improve status of adolescent girls from disadvantaged families through small cash transfers.
This is not the first award for the Kanyashree Prakalpa.
The UNICEF lauded the programme a couple of years ago.
The scheme has brought 40 lakh school and college going girls under its umbrella who are given small amounts of money as scholarships as long as they continue going to school.
UNI BM

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