Bhubaneswar: More than one crore women have registered for Odisha government’s Subhadra Yojana by Monday, said Deputy Chief Minister Pravati Parida.
Parida, in a statement on Monday, said the women welfare scheme reached a milestone as the number of applicants reached one crore and 20 thousand on the day.
Claiming it to be a great achievement of the state government, she said Chief Minister Mohan Charana Majhi would hand over the first instalment of the second phase of the scheme at Baripada on Tuesday.
“In order to verify whether the bank accounts of the beneficiaries were operating or not and ensuring transparency in the system, a token amount of Re 1 was first sent to their accounts in the first phase. But this has not been implemented for the beneficiaries during the second phase of the scheme,” she clarified.
She cautioned the people not to be misled by wrong information being circulated in the social media in this regard. She said the beneficiaries can access the official site of ‘Subhadra’ or its official social media or call the toll-free number to get the update about the scheme.
It may be noted that the ambitious Subhadra Yojana was launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi at a special function held in Bhubaneswar on his birthday on September 17. The second phase payment is scheduled to be released on October 9.
The state government has already announced that the women beneficiaries, who complete their application process by October 7, would receive their first instalment of Rs 5,000 on that day.