Bengaluru, June 10 -- A major irregularity has surfaced in the Karnataka government's flagship Gruha Lakshmi scheme, with a technical audit reportedly revealing that nearly Rs 128 crore was transferred over the past five months to the bank accounts of about 1.48 lakh deceased beneficiaries.
The findings have triggered alarm within the state administration, prompting an emergency review and a proposed overhaul of beneficiary verification mechanisms.
According to the audit conducted by the State Guarantee Scheme Implementation Committee, monthly assistance of Rs 2,000 continued to be credited to women beneficiaries even after their deaths, allegedly due to failures in updating beneficiary records and linking welfare databases with death reg...