India, Nov. 1 -- Haryana chief minister Nayab Singh Saini on Saturday said about 5.22 lakh women have been disbursed a monthly financial assistance of Rs.2,100 under the Lado Lakshmi Yojana, a social security scheme started by the BJP government.

The BJP had made a poll promise in 2024 to provide Rs.2,100 monthly assistance to every woman in the state.

However, keeping in view the huge financial implications involved in dispensing the monthly financial assistance to every woman, the state government worked out an exclusion-criteria to bring down the number of eligible women beneficiaries.

The Lado Lakshmi Yojana would have entailed an annual financial implication of about Rs.23,940 crore if about 95 lakh women in the 18-100 age group w...