Overview
- Maharashtra completed an e‑KYC and database verification drive that officials said cut about 80 lakh names from the Mukhyamantri Majhi Ladki Bahin rolls and left roughly 1.7 crore eligible women receiving the Rs 1,500 monthly stipend.
- Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis said payments to removed or non‑KYC accounts have been halted, the state will not recover past payments from women found ineligible but will seek recovery from about 14,000 men and other clearly fraudulent cases.
- The Maharashtra review matched beneficiary records against Income Tax, government payroll, transport, vehicle and ration‑card databases and identified categories of exclusions including income‑above‑threshold families, government employees and age or duplicate‑identity cases.
- West Bengal on Wednesday launched the Annapurna Yojana with an initial transfer to about 28.25 lakh verified women at Rs 3,000 per month and set up an online portal, periodic seven‑day updates and fresh registration with tighter verification rules.
- The West Bengal government has ordered a Special Investigation Team and a money‑laundering probe into alleged fraud in the prior Lakshmir Bhandar scheme, saying roughly 30 lakh accounts may be fake and reporting arrests while the opposition calls the cleanups politically motivated.