Schemes offering cash incentive to women takes centre stage is Bengal poll campaign

With less than 7 days remaining earlier the archetypal signifier of polling successful West Bengal, not lone are governmental enactment leaders moving hard to seizure voters’ attention, but payment schemes offering currency incentives to women successful the State are besides playing a important role.

As the West Bengal predetermination run reaches its peak, a contention betwixt the Lakshmir Bhandar of the Trinamool Congress and the Matri Shakti Vandan Yojana of the Bharatiya Janata Party has gained momentum connected the sidelines. The Lakshmir Bhandar has been a time-tested exemplary for the Trinamool and its announcement helped the enactment outperform a resurgent BJP successful the 2021 Assembly election. Its implementation was besides credited with the party’s 2024 Lok Sabha predetermination win. The fig of beneficiaries of the scheme, which provides ₹1,500 per period for women successful the General categories and ₹1,700 for women from Scheduled categories, has reached 2.42 crore.