India, March 9 -- The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Saturday came out in praise of the Delhi government's Mahila Samriddhi Yojna - a cash transfer scheme that will provide a monthly dole of Rs.2,500 to eligible women in the Capital - and said the proposal is the fulfilment of a promise that Prime Minister Narendra Modi made to the city's residents in the run up to the state assembly elections.

The Delhi government on Saturday - observed globally as International Women's Day - approved a budgetary allocation of Rs.5,100 crore for the scheme. A ministerial committee, chaired by chief minister Rekha Gupta and including ministers Parvesh Verma, Ashish Sood and Kapil Mishra as members, has also been formed to ensure the scheme's implementat...