28 June,2024 04:25 PM IST | Mumbai | mid-day online correspondent
Ajit Pawar before presenting the budget. Pic/X
Maharashtra deputy CM Ajit Pawar on Friday afternoon presented the state's budget during the ongoing monsoon session of the state assembly and announced the 'Mukhyanantri Majhi Ladki Bahin' scheme which would guarantee Rs 1500 to women.
The scheme will be implemented from July 2024, Ajit Pawar said while presenting the budget.
According to the ANI, at the State Assembly, Maharashtra Deputy CM and NCP chief Ajit Pawar said, "We are announcing Mukhyanantri Majhi Ladki Bahin (CM My Beloved Sister). Under this, all women will be given Rs 1500 per month. Scheme will be implemented from July 2024."
Ajit Pawar announced a financial assistance scheme entailing a monthly allowance of Rs 1,500 to eligible women in the age group of 21 to 60 years in the state Budget for 2024-25.
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Ajit Pawar, who holds the finance portfolio, said in his budget speech in the assembly that the scheme, "Mukhyamantri Majhi Ladki Bahin Yojana", will be implemented from July, four months ahead of the state polls which are due in October.
An annual budgetary allocation of Rs 46,000 crore will be made for the scheme, he said.
Announcing another welfare scheme, the finance minister said an eligible family of five will get three cooking gas cylinders free every year under the 'Mukhyamantri Annapurna Yojana'.
"I congratulate PM Modi on becoming PM for the third time. I am sure that we will get the cooperation of Union Government for 5 more years now," Ajit Pawar said.
Ajit Pawar, while presenting the Maharashtra budget 2024 said, "We will provide Rs 5000 per hectare bonus to all farmers for their crops of cotton and soybean in Maharashtra. We will also give Rs 5 rupees per litre bonus to milk-producing farmers even after 1st July 2024. Govt has increased the monetary help in deaths due to animal attack, now the next of kins will get Rs 25 lakhs instead of 20 lakhs earlier."
Ajit Pawar also said that we will give 3 free cylinders every year to all households under CM Anna Chhatra Yojana of Maharashtra government.
(with ANI and PTI inputs)
