Bhubaneswar, 23/8: In a big development, Odisha government has decided to include around 79.14 lakh women from 65.25 lakh families under Subhadra Yojana .Subhadra Yojana was one of the major poll promises of the BJP.
According to the SOP ,beneficiary list prepared by the Women and Child Development (W&CD) department, 79,14,491 women, who have ration cards and none of their family members is a government employee or have four-wheeler or land more than five acres, or a government pensioner or receiving Rs 1000 a month (Rs 12,000 a year) under any other scheme, are eligible for the scheme.
The eligible women beneficiaries are above 21 years old and less than 60 years old. They belong to 65,25,935 families in the state. The draft beneficiary list has been finalised from the database of 97,54,003 women having ration cards by using the exclusion criteria fixed by the government.