Maharashtra govt sets up panel to streamline schemes, address financial challenges
Ladki Bahin scheme, has decided to take drastic measures, reported TOI. Enter the 7-member panel led by Minister of State for Finance Ashish Jaiswal, tasked with evaluating and streamlining ongoing schemes to reduce financial chaos.
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The committee, which also includes top bureaucrats like the CEO of MITRA and the additional chief secretaries for finance and planning, will focus on eliminating redundant schemes, cutting duplication, and ensuring resources are used efficiently.
According to the report, the committee’s mission is clear: rationalise the government’s schemes to ensure the benefits actually reach the intended recipients. They’ll also look for ways to boost financial resources. This move comes on the heels of Prime Minister Modi’s directive to state governments at the 7th National Council of Chief Secretaries, urging them to consolidate schemes and reduce unproductive subsidies to drive economic growth.
In its final pre-poll budget, the government announced a slew of new schemes worth Rs 96,000 crore, including the Mukhya Mantri Majhi Ladki Bahin Yojana, free power for agricultural pumps, a scholarship scheme for EWS girls, and free gas cylinders for 52 lakh households, noted the report.
However, the decision to roll out massive pre-poll sops has put the state’s finances
