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Govt Initiates Drive to Trace Those Not Claiming Ladli Yojana Benefits
The Morning Standard
|January 16, 2025
The Women and Child Development (WCD) Department of the Delhi government has launched a targeted initiative to ensure girl children enrolled in the Ladli Yojana, a flagship financial assistance scheme, receive their dues.
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The campaign focuses on tracing beneficiaries who have either not claimed their payments or failed to renew their applications.
Introduced on January 1, 2008, the Ladli Yojana aims to uplift girl children born in the national capital by offering term deposits at key milestones. These include ₹11,000 for hospital births, ₹10,000 for home births, and ₹5,000 upon enrollment in classes one, two, six, nine, and ten.
This story is from the January 16, 2025 edition of The Morning Standard.
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