India, July 14 -- Only one woman from each household will be eligible for the Delhi government's flagship monthly financial assistance scheme, and in families with more than one eligible applicant, only the eldest woman will qualify for the Rs.2,500 benefit. Further, if either the applicant or any member of her family has a criminal record, the household will be ineligible for the scheme, the government announced on Monday.

The government also announced other eligibility criteria for the scheme, officially renamed from "Mahila Samriddhi Yojana" to "Delhi Lakshmi Yojana". Only women aged between 21 and 60 years who, or whose families, have been residents of Delhi for at least 10 years, have an annual family income of not more than Rs.2.5 ...