Maharashtra will pay gaushalas same amount per cow as women get under Ladki Bahin scheme – Rs 1,500
This came in the wake of media reports that the state’s finance department had warned that it faced ‘financial pressure’ due to revenue deficits.
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The Maharashtra government on Monday cleared a subsidy scheme to give the state’s gaushalas, or cow shelters, Rs 50 per cow per day, reported The Hindu. This works out to Rs 1,500 per cow each month.
This is the same amount the Maharashtra government pays out under its Ladki Bahin Yojana for women aged 21 to 65 whose family income is under Rs 2.5 lakh annually.
Chief Minister Eknath Shinde said that the scheme for gaushalas would ensure the preservation of indigenous breeds of cows.
His announcement, ahead of the Assembly elections in Maharashtra, came on the day Union minister and Bharatiya Janata Party leader Nitin Gadkari observed that the Rs 46,000-crore Ladki Bahin Yojana is likely to result in subsidy payments in other sectors being delayed.
Shinde’s Shiv Sena faction and the BJP are allies in Maharashtra and at the national level.
The state government said that the subsidy for gaushalas would “strengthen them financially” as cow shelters have “meagre income”.
It said that the scheme will be implemented online by the Maharashtra Goseva Commission.
The government said it has given the state’s indigenous breeds of cows the status of “Rajyamata-Gomata” or mother of the state.
It said that the 20th animal census conducted in 2019 put the number of indigenous cows at 46,13,632, a decline of 20% compared...
