Thousands Of Bengal Women Apply In Mamata Banerjee's Financial Aid Scheme | Read
Women in West Bengal are making a beeline to Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's latest gender specific cash transfer welcome scheme Lakshmir Bhandar. At stake is Rs. 1,000 per month for women of Scheduled Castes and Tribes and Rs. 500 for the rest. The forms for enrolling in the scheme began to be distributed since Monday. In the first three days, 30 lakh women signed up, even at the cost of getting injured in the rush for the forms, at Malda, Birbhum, North 24 Parganas and other districts.
