Delhi CM launches Lakshmi Yojna portal

Delhi Chief Minister Rekha Gupta on Saturday launched the online portal for ‘Delhi Laxmi Yojna’ under which financial aid of Rs 2,500 per month will be given to women in the city.

“Delhi Lakshmi Yojana, which is a scheme that will provide economic empowerment to the sisters of Delhi. The government has allocated a budget of Rs 5,100 crore for this. The portal has started from today, and registration has also begun,” Gupta said, addressing the public.

“I think almost 500 sisters have successfully filled their forms on this,” she added.

The Delhi Cabinet headed by Gupta on Tuesday passed the scheme under which eligible women will receive Rs 2,500 every month. The scheme was a key poll promise of the BJP in Assembly polls held last year.

According to the scheme guidelines approved by the cabinet, women, aged between 21 and 60, whose family income is up to Rs 2.50 lakh per annum, will be eligible to apply.

Women already receiving benefits under any other financial assistance scheme or pension, taxpayers, government employees, women with more than three living children, families with annual electricity consumption exceeding 2,400 units, will not be eligible for the scheme.

Families with any member having a government job, a criminal case, and those owning four-wheelers will also be excluded from the scheme’s ambit.

Of the total dole, Rs 1,500 will be kept in a fixed deposit with a three-year lock-in period, reducing the in-hand sum to Rs 1,000.