Pune: The state govt has approved around 1.6 crore applications out of the over two crore received for the Mukhyamantri Mazhi Ladki Bahin Yojana a week before the last date to apply for the scheme, a senior official from the state woman and child development department told TOI on Saturday. It is expected that applications would touch 2.
5 crore by Aug-end. The numbers had increased because of special camps held in all districts over the last one week. The govt was likely to extend the deadline in the wake of the upcoming assembly elections, the official said.
State woman and child development (WCD) commissioner Dr Prashant Narnaware told TOI, “There is a high influx of applications over the last 10 days because of continuous programmes. All collectors and commissioners are working to clear them at the earliest.” Meanwhile, applications that either lacked documents or were not linked with bank accounts would be considered after re-registration.
“Work is on for seeding of bank accounts of many beneficiaries and special camps have been held for the same,” said senior officials, adding that around 47 lakh applications were rejected because of lack of documents and the affected claimants could re-apply. Pune leads the tally of highest number of applications at 15 lakh, followed by Nashik at 11 lakh, Thane at 9.3 lakh and Nagpur at 8.
9 lakh. All districts had been directed to conduct special camps and clear applications. As many as 1.
1cr applicants had already received Rs3,.