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Why Are Government Helpers Getting a New Support Plan? 🤔

The government started a program called Central Secretariat Service Shield to help families when a worker dies.

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Key Points

5 points

Program name: Central Secretariat Service Shield.

Purpose: financial aid for families of deceased government workers.

Current fund: about 13 million Indian rupees from 13,000 members.

Target aid per family: around 1.5 million Indian rupees.

Future plans: add scholarships for children and increase aid as more join.

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Colleagues together put money into a shared fund that can give each family about one and a half million Indian rupees.

The program also plans to give school scholarships to children of the families.

More than 13,000 workers have already joined, contributing about 13 million Indian rupees so far.

The goal is to make the support grow bigger as more people join.

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6 words

minister

a government leader who looks after a specific area

forum

a group of people who meet to discuss and work on something

corpus

the total amount of money collected

initiative

a new plan or project

bereaved

people who have lost a family member

solidarity

working together and supporting each other

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