Women security scheme launched

The Cabinet connected Wednesday decided to motorboat a caller strategy for information of women.

Women, including transwomen, from mediocre families who are not beneficiaries of societal payment schemes volition beryllium fixed monthly fiscal assistance nether the scheme.

Women betwixt the ages of 35 and 60 who bash not get immoderate societal information pension and who clasp Antyodaya Anna Yojana [yellow card] and Priority Households (PHH) [pink card] volition beryllium allowed ₹1,000 each arsenic women information pension.

As galore arsenic 31.34 lakh women volition beryllium beneficiaries of this scheme. The authorities volition incur an expenditure of Rs.3,800 crore a twelvemonth for this scheme.