Mukhyamantri Majhi Ladki Bahin Yojana: Maharashtra government seeks similar centrally sponsored scheme with 50% central contribution

Maharashtra Ladki Bahin Yojana: The Maharashtra government has sought a centrally sponsored scheme (CSS) similar to the state's flagship 'Maharashtra Ladki Bahin Yojana' programme with the Centre providing half of the funding. The Maharashtra government had earmarked Rs 46,000 crore for the Ladki Bahin scheme in the state's last Budget. 

Under the scheme, more than 2.5 crore women get Rs 1,500 as monthly aid under certain conditions. 

Seeking funds for the flagship scheme, which played an important role in the 2024 Maharashtra Assembly polls, the state government sought funds for the initiative.

Centrally sponsored schemes are funded jointly by the central and state governments, with the Centre providing partial or full funding. Typically, the Centre provides the lion's share of funds in such schemes.  

Meanwhile, the Maharashtra Assembly has cleared supplementary demands amounting to about Rs 33,788 crore. The sum includes a Rs 1,400 crore provision for the Ladki Bahin scheme.

Minister Uday Samant tabled the supplementary demands in the state Assembly on Monday. 

The development follows Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis's recent remarks that the state aims to raise the monthly aid to Rs 2,100.

'Ladki Bahin Yojana' 

flagship Mukhyamantri Majhi Ladki Bahin Yojana

Ladki Bahin Yojana in Maharashtra: The Maharashtra assembly today (December 20) passed supplementary demands of Rs 33,788.40 crore, including a provision of Rs 1,400 crore for the state government's flagship 'Mukhyamantri Majhi Ladki Bahin Yojana'.

The supplementary demands, which were tabled in the assembly on Monday (December 16) by Minister Uday Samant, was passed in the Lower House after a debate. In the last budget, the state government had provisioned Rs 46,000 crore for the 'Ladki Bahin Yojana', under which more than 2.5 crore women with an annual family income of less than Rs 2.5 lakh get Rs 1,500 as monthly aid.

Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis had recently said this monthly aid would be raised to Rs 2,100. The supplementary demands include a provision of Rs 36 crore for the construction of a statue of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj at Rajkot fort in Malwan in Sindhudurg district. A provision of Rs 1,204 crore has been made to provide margin money loan to eligible sugar cooperative factories.

महाराष्ट्र ने लड़की बहना योजना के लिए फण्ड माँगा 

महाराष्ट्र ने कहा की केंद्र सरकार को लड़की बहना योजना जैसी सेंटर स्पॉन्सर्ड स्कीम लॉंच करनी चाहिए जिसमे 50 परसेंट हिस्सा केंद्र सरकार का हो