Pune: The Anganwadi Workers‘ Association (Maharashtra) on Wednesday urged the state govt not to assign its members the task of verifying beneficiaries under the Mukhyamantri – Majhi Ladki Bahin Yojana, citing safety concerns and pending payments for work already carried out under the scheme.This comes a day after state women and child development (WCD) department minister Aditi Tatkare in a social media post said district collectors had been directed to conduct on-ground verification, with the help of anganwadi workers, of the beneficiaries who could not correctly complete the mandatory e-KYC. “Although the e-KYC deadline was Dec 31, errors during the process prevented some beneficiaries from receiving benefits. To ensure that eligible women are not deprived, district collectors are instructed to conduct verification through anganwadi workers,” Tatkare said.In a letter submitted to the principal secretary of the women and child development department and the Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) commissioner, the Anganwadi Workers’ Association said its members played a crucial role in rolling out the scheme, launched in July 2024, which included helping women fill out applications online. “We continuously requested that the task of verification not be assigned to us,” said Shubha Shamim, leader of the association.The govt announced an honorarium of Rs50 per application, but the association alleged that payments were inadequate or pending in several districts, particularly in rural areas of Nashik and Pune. “Despite repeated follow-ups, payments for work already done have not been released in many areas,” the letter stated.Applications were verified at the time of submission, and the current exercise amounts to a second round of checks, which could expose them to public anger, put their safety at risk, and affect the functioning of anganwadi centres, the association said. “If anganwadi workers exclude names of ineligible beneficiaries, they could face hostility from the same communities they serve daily under the ICDS scheme,” the association said, appealing to the govt to reconsider its decision and deploy an alternative mechanism.Officials said the verification exercise aimed to correct errors in e-KYC submissions after many beneficiaries could not complete the process due to technical glitches, procedural errors, or confusion over Aadhaar-bank account mapping. In Buldhana and Washim districts, complaints poured in about stopped payments, while in Pune, women said they did not receive the assistance for months despite completing e-KYC.e-KYC glitch links 24 lakh beneficiaries to families of govt employees; payouts haltedOne of the questions in the e-KYC form for the Ladki Bahin scheme led to around 24 lakh women beneficiaries in Maharashtra being wrongly classified as belonging to families with members working for the govt. This resulted in the stoppage of their monthly financial assistance of Rs1,500, an WCD department official told TOI on Wednesday.The official said the question was incorrectly framed, using a confusing double negative in Marathi — “Tumchya gharatle koni sarkari nokrit nahi na?” (Nobody in your family works for the govt, right?). Beneficiaries who should have answered “no” mistakenly marked “yes” due to the sentence construction.“Around 24 lakh beneficiaries responded in the affirmative. The system automatically interpreted this as the presence of a govt employee in the family and halted the monthly payments,” the official said. Each district has been shared the number of such genuine beneficiaries, and this will be assessed, officials added.The WCD department acknowledged the error and launched a massive physical verification drive, deploying nearly one lakh anganwadi workers across the state to rectify the records.
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