{
  "id": 451538,
  "title": "Why nine million were removed from a landmark Indian cash scheme for women",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/10/why-nine-million-were-removed-from-a-landmark-indian-cash-scheme-for",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-08-10T07:45:58.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The Island Sri Lanka",
    "slug": "the-island-sri-lanka",
    "url": "http://island.lk/why-nine-million-were-removed-from-a-landmark-indian-cash-scheme-for-women/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Until two years ago, Nirmala Bawaskar had no bank account of her own. A widow who works as a housemaid in Maharashtra’s Sambhajinagar district, she signed documents with a thumbprint and had little control over money entering her household. That changed when she enrolled in the Mukhyamantri Majhi Ladki Bahin Yojana, one of India’s biggest […]",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}