Recovery of money paid and also action against those who derived benefits of the Ladki Bahin scheme by providing false information have been proposed. Scrutiny of application forms has already been started. The process of scrutiny was halted following enforcement of the Model Code of Conduct.
More than 2.52 crore women were benfited under the scheme and voted in favour of BJP-Mahayuti during the Assembly elections. The last date for submitting the applications was October 15. On October 16 elections were announced and the Code of Conduct was enforced. The scrutiny has been started with the lifting of the Code of Conduct after the elections.
Fearing action some of the applicants returned the money received, according to the sources in Department of Women and Child Development. Many other genuine applicants will get the benefits after the scrutiny of their applications.