Govt employees being weeded out of Ladli Bahin Scheme
Faced with a huge
fiscal burden
due to the
Ladli Bahin Scheme
, the
Maharashtra government
has begun the process of deleting women
government employees
from the list of beneficiaries, as they are not eligible for the same. The government has identified 2,652 women employees who have availed of the Ladli Bahin payout despite not being eligible. The amount paid to these 2,652 women has come to ₹3.58 crore so far, which these employees would now have to pay back to the government.
IT department officials said that the number of government employees availing the scheme would be much higher as they still have to check six lakh more employees.
"There are state government employees, there are employees from different civic corporations like the Mumbai, Thane, Nashik, Nagpur and other Municipal Corporations as well as government teachers, all their records will now be scrutinised. The exercise will take a while as we have asked for the employment records from all these bodies," said an IT official who did not want to be quoted. The Maharashtra government, in a bid to woo women voters prior to the assembly polls, had announced that women aged between 21 and 65 years and have an
annual income
of less than ₹2.5 lakh would be paid ₹1,500 per month.
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State government employees are not eligible for this as their annual income is much higher than ₹2.5 lakh. However, several government employees have been availing of the scheme as the Mahayuti government did not do a stringent check on the beneficiary list. Faced with a huge monthly payout for the Ladli Bahin scheme, which leaves very little funds for any development or other works, the state has begun weeding out the government beneficiaries.
The Maharashtra government has allocated ₹36,000 crore annually as payment for the Ladli scheme. By next year, Maharashtra's debt is estimated to reach ₹9.36 lakh crore. The state's annual interest payment for 2025-25 was at ₹54,687 crore and is expected to go up to ₹64,658 crore by next year. This explains the government's urgency to weed out the
ineligible beneficiaries
. Accordingly, the Information Technology department has been scrutinising the list of beneficiaries and has found these 2,652 women had taken these payouts for the last nine months.
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The scheme has already been tweaked with the state stating that 8 lakh women who were being paid under the Namo Shetkari Mahasanman Nidhi (NSMN) will be paid ₹500 per month under the Ladli Bahin scheme as they were also being paid ₹1,000 under the NSMN.
The scrutiny has not gone down well with the Opposition attacking the government. "For getting votes, the state did not follow any criteria. However, once they got elected they are now doing all this scrutiny. This money should be withdrawn from those whose job was to scrutinise this," said Ambadas Danve, Sena (UBT) leader.
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