Catholic diocese announces welfare scheme for families with five or more kids
The Hindu
Some term it a bid to raise community’s strength
Even as the controversy over the measures to curb population growth in Uttar Pradesh continues to rage, a Catholic Church diocese in central Kerala has announced a welfare scheme for families with five or more children. The initiative, launched by the Family Apostolate of the Pala diocese under the Syro-Malabar Church, seeks to offer a monthly financial assistance of ₹1,500 to couples married after 2000 and have five or more children. Women delivering their fourth child onward will be given free delivery care at a hospital run by the Church while children born as the fourth or subsequent in a family will be given scholarships at an engineering college run by the Church. The scheme, announced as part of the Year of the Family celebrations by the Church, is now going viral on social media and has evoked mixed reactions from the public.
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