Registration for the Gruha Lakshmi Scheme announced by the State government to transfer ₹2,000 directly to the bank accounts of each APL, BPL and Antyodaya card holder every month has been going on in full swing in Yadgir district. So far, 1,80,532 members with 74.13% of all types of cards have registered their names to get benefits under this scheme.
There are 2.87 lakh cards, including APL, BPL and Antyodaya, in the district and of these, 2.43 lakh cards are with women named as head of the family. And, the remaining 44,000 cards have men as head of the family.
According to norms of the scheme, a woman where she is the head of the family will get the benefit. Therefore, officials of the Women and Child Welfare Department are insisting that men who are heads of their families as per the cards should convert such cards showing their women members as head of their families to benefit under the scheme.
