Nagpur, 11 Dec (HS): Minister for Women and Child

Development Aditi Tatkare assured that the government will recover the benefits

under the ‘Ladki Bahin’ scheme from the ineligible beneficiaries.

Tatkare admitted that about 8,000 state government

employees received the benefits under the scheme despite being ineligible. She

was replying to the charges of corruption in the scheme in the Legislative

Assembly. About 14,000 women who did not have bank accounts used their husbands’

accounts to get the benefits. Their accounts will be scrutinised over the next

two months. MLA Sunil Prabhu also raised the issue of 14,998 male applicants and

26 lakh bogus applicants had derived benefits for the last 10 months.

Tatkare said that 2.43 crore out of 2.63 applications

were accepted Information and Technology Department had informed that about 2.6

million beneficiaries are also getting benefits under various other government

schemes. She reiterated that the sum extended to ineligible beneficiaries will

be recovered in the next two months.

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Hindusthan Samachar / Ajay Vasant Mardikar