Maharashtra: 83% of Ladki Bahin recipients married, widows mere 4.7% | Mumbai News – The Times of India

MUMBAI: Almost 83% of beneficiaries of the Mukhya Mantri Majhi Ladki Bahin Yojana are married women, according to an analysis of around 2.5 crore beneficiaries of the scheme. Unmarried women account for 11.8% of beneficiaries while widows account for 4.7%.Divorced, destitute and deserted women collectively account for less than 1% of beneficiaries, data shows. Divorced…

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Atal pension plan ‘coercive’, says Jairam, finance minister returns fire | India News – Times of India

NEW DELHI: In a faceoff on micro-blogging platform X, finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman and Congress MP Jairam Ramesh traded charges over the Atal Pension Yojana, with govt dismissing charges of coercion and enrollment of beneficiaries without their consent.It all began on Tuesday morning with Ramesh citing a study by the Indian Council of Social Science…

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