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Indian Express
27-06-2025
- Business
- Indian Express
Majhi Ladki Bahin scheme: State to ink MoU with I-T dept to access info of women beneficiaries having taxpayers in their families
The state women and child development department is set to sign a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Income tax department to exchange data and get details of women beneficiaries who received monetary benefits under the Majhi Ladki Bahin scheme, despite a member of their family being a taxpayer. The MoU will also include a non-disclosure agreement (NDA) to protect the identity of taxpayers and associated information. 'There will be an exchange of information between the Income Tax department and the state government. It is important that the information shared needs to be protected and not disclosed. Hence the agreement will be signed,' said an official from the women and child development department. The state government launched the Majhi Ladki Bahin scheme on June 28, 2024, whereby Rs 1500 is deposited per month in the accounts of women beneficiaries who are below poverty line. Around 2.4 crore women are currently beneficiaries of this scheme. One of the criterion of this scheme was that none of the family members of the women beneficiaries should be income taxpayers. The scheme, which was launched ahead of the 2024 Maharashtra Assembly elections, had come under scrutiny after reports of a number of ineligible beneficiaries being enrolled emerged. The state women and child development department was in talks with the Union Finance ministry for the share of data of taxpayers to intensify the scrutiny process. After getting the clearances from the top, the move to share data has begun. The department will sign an MoU with the Income Tax department for the same, whereby terms and conditions of the sharing of data of taxpayers will be decided. The NDA will be an important part of the process to avoid any leak. The women and child development department has been scrutinising the list since January. During a scrutiny last month, around 2,200 beneficiaries of the scheme were found to be government employees. In February, around five lakh women were found ineligible for the scheme. A cumulative sum of Rs 450 crore has been transferred into the bank accounts of the ineligible beneficiaries.
Time of India
24-04-2025
- Business
- Time of India
Assam CM Himanta Sarma urges finance ministry, RBI to release special coin to mark Dr Bhupen Hazarika 100th birth anniversary
Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said that he has urged the Union Finance ministry and Reserve Bank of India to release a special coin to mark the 100th birth anniversary of music maestro Dr Bhupen Hazarika. Sarma said investment proposals of over Rs 1 lakh crore, which were received during the Advantage Assam summit , will be rolled out by the end of this year. Sarma on Saturday met Prime Minister, Narendra Modi and invited him to the inaugural function of the year-long birth centenary celebrations of doyen of music Bharat Ratna, Dr. Bhupen Hazarika. by Taboola by Taboola Sponsored Links Sponsored Links Promoted Links Promoted Links You May Like Incredible, the TV box everyone is talking about: Access all channels ? Techno Mag Undo Sarma said that Modi will inaugurate the country's first bio refinery and lay the foundation stone of the Guwahati Ring Road project and the Darrang Medical College and Hospital. Sarma said that by December this year work worth Rs one lakh Crore will be started in Assam. 'Adani group which has committed an investment worth Rs 50,000 Crore during the recently held Advantage Assam summit will soon start the work of aero city. In the last ten days a team from the company twice visited Assam.' Live Events Sarma said Prime Minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate the Assam Bio-Ethanol Plant , which has a production capacity of 49,000 tonnes per annum (KTPA) of ethanol. Sarma said, "By December this year, work on projects worth over Rs 1 lakh crore, which were announced during the Advantage Assam summit, will start. In no other state where such summits are organised, such speedy implementation is ensured." He added, "During the trip to attend the birth centenary celebration, the Prime minister will lay the foundation of this Rs 7,500-crore Guwahati ring road, which also includes a bridge over the Brahmaputra between Narengi and Kuruwa," he said. He said the state government will bear 50 per cent of the expenses for land acquisition for the project, and reimburse the forest royalty and GST to the construction company. The state government will be spending over Rs 1,000 crore for the ring road project, while the central government has sanctioned Rs 3,000 crore as viability gap, Sarma added. "Work on the Guwahati aerocity project , announced by the group during the business summit, will commence in October," he added. Two more projects, a greenfield highway between Guwahati and Silchar, and a tunnel under the Brahmaputra between Numaligarh and Gohpur are also nearing approval, the chief minister added.
