Disorderly lines of people extending beyond the centre’s premises with elderly women and middle-aged women carrying children populated the Kasturi Nagar Bangalore One centre where many had gathered for the registration of the Gruha Lakshmi scheme.
Agitated, many of them were talking amongst themselves about the delay. Manjula, a homemaker, who waited for more than three hours to get registered, said, “We also have work at home, have to cook food and pick up our children from school... If we are stuck here, there is no one to take care of our chores,” she rued.
As the registration for one of the government’s flagship scheme, Gruha Lakshmi, under which women heads of the families get ₹2,000, every month, applicants have been rushing to the Bangalore One centres across the City to get registered. While the applicants are complaining about the long queues and technical snags at the centres, the staff have been working extra hours to cater to the applicants of the scheme as well as those interested in availing Gruha Jyothi, another flagship scheme of the government which provides up to 200 units of free power.
