Ladli Beti scheme

Why is in news? J&K: Govt fully digitized Ladli Beti scheme to ensure maximum beneficiaries gets full transparency

A Jammu & Kashmir Government sponsored social assistance scheme meant for new born girl child of the Union Territories of J&K and Ladakh born on or after 01st April 2015.

The objective of the scheme is to arrest the declining female sex ratio.

The scheme further intends to ensure that the girl child does not become a burden for the parent or guardian at the time of her marriage.

Under this scheme, all girl-child born on or after 01-04-2015 and whose parents or guardian's income does not exceed 75,000 rupees per annum is eligible to be covered.

The beneficiaries get 1,000 rupees per month credited into the bank account through DBT Mode of the Girl Child up to the age of 14 years and after attaining the age of 21 years, the girl child will get an amount approximate amount of 6.50 lakh rupees.

Jammu and Kashmir government has fully digitized Ladli Beti scheme to ensure that the objective of the scheme reaches maximum beneficiaries with full transparency.

The administration has set a timeline of 45 days for the officers dealing with the scheme to complete the status of an application.

The Social Welfare Department has asked all the officers to do away with physical applications anymore.

The Chief Secretary of Jammu and Kashmir has launched an end-to-end digitized e-service for Ladli Beti scheme designed and developed by National Informatics Centre (NIC), a single window platform for submission and tracking of applications with no human intervention.

This service enables the applicant to apply, check and track the status of the application which will be forwarded online by the stakeholders to the next level.

Also, the sanctioned applications and letters digitally signed will be forwarded to the bank online.