The
cabinet meeting chaired by Chief
Minister Shri Shivraj Singh Chouhan
here today decided to amend the
centralised system for the state
government's ambitious "Ladli
Laxmi Yojana". Now the
registration under the scheme would be
made at the district level. Lump sum
funds would be made available to
district collectors for depositing
amounts in the name of beneficiaries.
Besides, the decision to abolish the
condition of family planning after the
birth of first girl would be deemed
implemented from the date of
amendment's implementation.
At
present, the list of all the girl
children registered under "Ladli
Laxmi Yojana" all over the state
is sent to Women and Child Development
Directorate. The directorate draws the
entire amount and makes it available
to Bhopal-based Central T.T. Nagar
post office. From here the amount is
transferred to concerning district
post offices for preparing National
Savings Scheme Certificates. This
process takes a long time.
The
cabinet had decided in March 2008 that
in the case of first birth of a girl
child she would be given benefit under
the scheme without the condition of
family planning but the condition of
family planning would continue on the
birth of second girl. In view of
possibility of large number of cases
under the scheme in the coming
financial years, financial
centralization of the scheme at the
state level would not be possible.
The
Women and Child Development Department
had earlier issued the directive that
Project Officers would send the list
of registered girls every month to the
directorate. On the basis of number of
beneficiaries, the directorate would
collect the lump sum amount to make
the same available to regional office
of Post and Telegraph Department. A
district-wise list of beneficiaries
would also be made available to Post
and Telegraph Department intimation of
which would be given to Project
Officer and District Collector.
The
cabinet, while amending the
abovementioned instruction of
re-allocating funds to districts, has
decided that Project Officers would
send the list of girls every month to
District Woman and Child Development
Officer or District Project Officer.
The District Project Officers would
draw lump sum amounts on the basis of
number of eligible beneficiaries and
with collector's approval deposit the
amount with local office of Post and
Telegraph Department. The Post and
Telegraph Department would send the
list as well funds to concerning post
offices of the project. Here National
Savings Certificates would be prepared
and handed over to Project Officers.
An
agreement would be signed between the
district collector and Superintendent
of District Post Office after
allocation of funds to the districts
under which the collector would
discharge the responsibility of
Project Coordinator. It may be
mentioned that such an agreement was
made at the state level between
Principal Secretary of Women and Child
Development Department and Post Master
General in which Commissioner Woman
and Child Development was the Project
Coordinator.
The
cabinet has amended "Ladli Laxmi
Yojana" and abolished the
condition of family planning in the
case of first girl child. The cabinet
has decided to implement this
amendment from the date of
implementation of the amendment in
place of date of launching of the
scheme which is January 1, 2006
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