Haryana okays Laado Laxmi Yojana, women to get Rs 2,100 a month

The Haryana Cabinet today approved the Deen Dayal Laado Laxmi Yojana to ensure social security and dignity of women. Under the scheme, all eligible women will receive a financial assistance of Rs 2,100 per month. The meeting was chaired by Chief Minister Nayab Singh Saini.

With the decision to implement the scheme, the government has fulfilled a major poll promise made in its Sankalp Patra. The scheme will be launched on September 25 on the birth anniversary of Pandit Deen Dayal Upadhyaya.

All eligible women (married and unmarried) aged 23 years and above as on September 25 this year will be eligible to avail of the benefit. In the first phase, families with an annual income of less than Rs 1 lakh have been included. Gradually, other income groups will also be brought under the ambit of the scheme.

To avail of the benefit of this scheme, it will be mandatory for an unmarried applicant, or the husband in the case of a married applicant, to be a resident of Haryana for the past 15 years. There will be no restriction on the number of beneficiaries from a single family. For instance, if three women in a household are eligible, all three will receive the benefit.

However, beneficiaries who are already covered under any of the following nine schemes — Old Age Samman Allowance, Financial Assistance to Widows and Destitute Women Scheme, Haryana Divyang Pension, Ladli Social Security Allowance, Financial Assistance to Kashmiri Migrants Families, Allowance to Dwarfs, Financial Assistance to Women and Girls Acid Attack Victims, Financial Assistance to Widower and Unmarried Persons Scheme-2023 and the Haryana Gaurav Samman Scheme for Padma Awardees — are receiving higher financial assistance and will not be entitled to the benefit under the Laado Laxmi Yojana.

The Cabinet decided that applicants suffering from stage 3 and 4 cancer, any of the 54 listed rare diseases, as well as haemophilia, thalassemia and sickle cell disease, who are already receiving pension benefits, will also be entitled to the additional benefit of the Laado Laxmi Yojana. Once an unmarried beneficiary completes 45 years of age, she will automatically become eligible for the Financial Assistance to Widows and Destitute Women Scheme. Similarly, upon attaining the age of 60, the beneficiary will automatically qualify for the Old Age Samman Allowance. In the first phase, about 20 lakh women across Haryana will get the benefit of this scheme.

In the coming days, along with the gazette notification of the scheme, a dedicated mobile application will also be launched for registration. Eligible women will be able to register themselves through this app. In addition, every potentially eligible woman will receive an SMS notification informing her of her eligibility and guiding her to apply on the app. The list of all eligible women will be published in every panchayat and ward. Further, gram sabhas and ward sabhas will be empowered to raise and register any objections regarding the published lists.