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Time of India
30-05-2025
- Business
- Time of India
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. Play Video Pause Skip Backward Skip Forward Unmute Current Time 0:00 / Duration 0:00 Loaded : 0% 0:00 Stream Type LIVE Seek to live, currently behind live LIVE Remaining Time - 0:00 1x Playback Rate Chapters Chapters Descriptions descriptions off , selected Captions captions settings , opens captions settings dialog captions off , selected Audio Track default , selected Picture-in-Picture Fullscreen This is a modal window. Beginning of dialog window. Escape will cancel and close the window. Text Color White Black Red Green Blue Yellow Magenta Cyan Opacity Opaque Semi-Transparent Text Background Color Black White Red Green Blue Yellow Magenta Cyan Opacity Opaque Semi-Transparent Transparent Caption Area Background Color Black White Red Green Blue Yellow Magenta Cyan Opacity Transparent Semi-Transparent Opaque Font Size 50% 75% 100% 125% 150% 175% 200% 300% 400% Text Edge Style None Raised Depressed Uniform Drop shadow Font Family Proportional Sans-Serif Monospace Sans-Serif Proportional Serif Monospace Serif Casual Script Small Caps Reset restore all settings to the default values Done Close Modal Dialog End of dialog window. by Taboola by Taboola Sponsored Links Sponsored Links Promoted Links Promoted Links You May Like Fungo nas unhas: um truque simples reduz facilmente Acabe com o Fungo Undo 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. Live Events 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.
New Indian Express
23-05-2025
- Business
- New Indian Express
Mahayuti government divides Ladli Bahin scheme beneficiaries along caste, community lines for 'financial ease'
MUMBAI: To ease the financial burden of the popular Ladli Bahin scheme, the Mahayuti government rather than releasing the fund from its parent department, has decided to seek the beneficiary amount from different state departments against the total number of respective beneficiaries from that particular caste and community. According to a senior government official, the state women and child development department initiated and launched the Ladli Bahin Scheme ahead of state assembly elections. It was decided that the required fund for this scheme will be taken from this same department only. 'But as the cost of this ambitious scheme is growing and that is putting a heavy burden on the state exchequer and women and child department alone cannot bear the total expenditure of this scheme. Therefore, it was strategically decided to divide the scheme beneficiaries on the line of cast and community. And, seek the fund from these respective departments and release these same category and caste women beneficiaries,' the official explained, requesting anonymity. As per these bifurcations, the women and child development department -- the parent department of Ladli Bahin Scheme -- has started seeking funds from various departments for that particular caste and community beneficiaries.
