Mumbai: A chartered accountant from Navi Mumbai has approached the Bombay High Court seeking to quash the implementation of ‘Mukhya Mantri Majhi Laadki Bahin Yojana’, a cash benefit scheme meant for the women in Maharashtra.
Under the scheme, which was announced in the State Budget, Rs 1,500 is slated to be transferred into the bank accounts of eligible women in the age group of 21 to 65 every month.
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The plea filed on July 29 also sought quashing of the Government Resolution (GR) of July 9 with regard to Mukhyamantri Yuva Karya Prashikshan Yojana, an internship scheme for unemployed youth in Maharashtra.
In the PIL filed before a division bench of Chief Justice Devendra Kumar Upadhyaya and Justice Amit Borkar, petitioner Naveed Abdul Saeed Mulla claimed that through the impugned government schemes, “an additional burden is put on direct and indirect taxpayers/exchequers as the taxes are collected for infrastructure development not for irrational cash schemes.”
“Such kind of cash benefit schemes are synonym to bribery or gift to voters of certain class to vote in favour of certain candidate on behalf of parties in present coalition government contesting in upcoming State Assembly elections,” the PIL claimed and said the same was against the provisions of the Representation of People Act, 1951 and amounted to ‘corrupt practice.’
The PIL further claimed that the scheme for the women would cost around Rs 4,600 crore and same is a “huge burden on debt-ridden state of Maharashtra which is already in debt of Rs 7.8 lakh crore and therefore same be quashed and set aside”.
After the bench sought to know what was an urgency to mention the plea, Saeed Mulla’s advocate Owais Pechkar urged on Friday that the stay be granted on effect of the scheme as the amount for the same will be disbursed later this month. The bench said that the PIL will be listed as per the auto-listing system. “Do not make the system of auto listing redundant. Urgency means demolition or if someone is going to be hanged,” Chief Justice Upadhyaya orally remarked.
