Main objective of the scheme
- This is the Government's flagship scheme aimed at stopping female foeticide and abandonment of baby girl.
- The scheme aims towards erasing the general perception that birth of a girl in the family is a burden on her parent and in turn addresses the undesirable tendency for female foeticide.
- Ladli Laxmi Scheme has been designed for parent to overcome financial difficulties during their dauther's marrige.
- Ladli Laxmi Scheme will also help to bring the male and female sex ratio balanced, by discouraging the killing of a girl child in the womb of the mother.