Mumbai: Maharashtra Women and Child Development minister Aditi Tatkare on Wednesday said the government is scrutinising the accounts of over 12,000 men who allegedly availed of the benefits under the Mukhyamantri Majhi Laadki Bahin Yojana.Under this flagship scheme, launched by the BJP-led Mahayuti government in August last year, eligible women get financial assistance of Rs 1,500 per month. “We are scrutinising the 12,000 accounts to verify their authenticity and to check whether the monthly assistance meant for women is being credited to a male member of the household,” she told reporters. Some people want to prove that the Laadki Bahin scheme is bad, she claimed.The minister said Aadhaar had not been seeded to 50 lakh bank accounts registered for the scheme last year. “It (seeding of Aadhaar) was done because of Laadki Bahin,” she said.pti
