India, Sept. 23 -- To bring all the beneficiaries availing of its different schemes under one umbrella and weed out duplication in benefits, the state government has prepared a golden or central data pool. This data, which was worked on for over a year, encompasses 168.5 million beneficiary accounts belonging to 56.7 million citizens.

The golden data has brought to the government's notice that most citizens are beneficiaries of multiple schemes, and has helped weed out 2.6 million from Ladki Bahin alone, saving the exchequer Rs.3,000 crore in all. It will be unveiled on October 2 on a dedicated portal called Samanvay with a dedicated unique ID called MahaID, which will be given to all government scheme beneficiaries.

"Golden data refers...