{"id":21989,"date":"2026-05-07T13:07:41","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T08:07:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/?p=21989"},"modified":"2026-05-07T13:07:41","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T08:07:41","slug":"sindh-government-approves-quarterly-stipend-for-children-up-to-5-years-of-age","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/?p=21989","title":{"rendered":"Sindh Government Approves Quarterly Stipend for Children Up to 5 Years of Age"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Karachi: The Sindh government has decided to launch a quarterly stipend programme for children from birth to five years of age as part of efforts to expand social protection across the province.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The decision was taken during a meeting of the Sindh Social Protection Authority chaired by Chief Minister Murad Ali Shah, where several important welfare and social support initiatives were approved.<\/p>\n<p>The meeting approved new cash assistance for 885,000 children and rural women, while also agreeing on special measures to ensure better child development, nutrition, and health monitoring.<\/p>\n<p>According to reports, children up to the age of five will receive a stipend of Rs 3,000 every three months under the programme to support their health and developmental needs.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, rural women will also receive monthly financial assistance during their non-productive periods to provide economic support.<\/p>\n<p>The meeting also approved a major Rs 14 billion project aimed at improving early childhood development, which is being viewed as a significant step in the social protection sector.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Karachi: The Sindh government has decided to launch a quarterly stipend programme for children from birth to five years of age as part of efforts to expand social protection across the province. The decision was taken during a meeting of the Sindh Social Protection Authority chaired by Chief Minister Murad Ali Shah, where several important [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21990,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"googlesitekit_rrm_CAowgLK2DA:productID":"","_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"subtitle":""},"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,46,36],"tags":[12134,6697,474,12136,744,12135],"class_list":["post-21989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-important-news","category-latest","category-pakistan","tag-child-stipend","tag-financial-assistance","tag-murad-ali-shah","tag-rural-women","tag-sindh-government","tag-social-protection"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21989"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21989\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21991,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21989\/revisions\/21991"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/21990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}