The scheme, which will cost the exchequer ₹33,300 crore from July 2024 to March 2025, is widely believed to have drawn an additional number of women voters, displayed in the narrow margin of male-female vote ratio—from 3.51% in 2019 to 1.62% in 2024. Launched in July this year, it gave economically backward women between ages 18 and 65 ₹1,500 per month, and seeing its popularity since its launch, the Mahayuti in its manifesto promised to up it to ₹2,100.
However, now that the heat and dust of the election has settled and the serious business of governance starts anew, bureaucrats realize that the ₹2,100 promise may be fiscally untenable.
هذه القصة مأخوذة من طبعة November 25, 2024 من Hindustan Times.
ابدأ النسخة التجريبية المجانية من Magzter GOLD لمدة 7 أيام للوصول إلى آلاف القصص المتميزة المنسقة وأكثر من 9,000 مجلة وصحيفة.
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هذه القصة مأخوذة من طبعة November 25, 2024 من Hindustan Times.
ابدأ النسخة التجريبية المجانية من Magzter GOLD لمدة 7 أيام للوصول إلى آلاف القصص المتميزة المنسقة وأكثر من 9,000 مجلة وصحيفة.
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