LUCKNOW: The UP government has made the first effort towards granting a monthly pension of Rs 500 to

. While the budget presented on Tuesday had no particular head for it, the minority department officials told TOI that the grant would be provided after re-appropriation of funds.

This re-appropriation of funds, officials said, will come from budgetary heads such as boundary walls for cemeteries and other miscellaneous heads.

"The cabinet decision and government order is awaited in this regard but the department has already surveyed 63 districts and a detailed lists of triple talaq victims is ready," said joint director, minority welfare department, Shesh Nath Pandey.

Since a budget head cannot be made until the government order is released, work in the area will continue till the GO comes. "The detailed survey lists from 12 more districts are yet to come but we will re-appropriate funds from other heads till a separate head is made by the government," Pandey added.

After PM

announced Rs 500 monthly pension for triple talaq victims last year, the state minority department had started the process of identifying the same.