A day before poll, state govt releases aid for women

Jharkhand chief minister Hemant Soren announced Tuesday disbursements of the fourth instalment of Maiyan Samman Yojana, a day before the first of the two-phase assembly elections.

The Hemant-led JMM-Congress-RJD govt has highlighted the four-month-old scheme under which women between 18 and 50 with no independent sources of income are paid Rs 1,000 every month.

Hemant and his allies have pledged to increase the amount to Rs 2,500 from Dec if voted back to office. On X, CM disclosed that the latest instalment was transferred to accounts “of all sisters yesterday (Monday)”. “This (scheme) has freed them from taking extremely expensive loans from moneylenders...,” he wrote.

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