Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], June 11 (ANI): Maharashtra Housing Minister Jitendra Awhad on Friday cleared his stance on the Bharatiya Janata Party's objections on three votes of (Maha Vikas Aghadi) MVA and denied the BJP's claims citing latency in BJP's claims.

Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], June 10 (ANI): Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Friday alleged a violation of the poll code by three MLAs of the ruling Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) in the Rajya Sabha elections in Maharashtra and urged the Returning Officer to hold their votes invalid.

Amaravati (Maharashtra) [India], April 11 (ANI): Maharashtra Women and Child Development Minister and Congress leader Yashomati Thakur on Monday while praising Nationalist Congress Party chief Sharad Pawar said that the government's image would have been different if he had been made the Chief Minister of the state.

Mumbai Mar 21 PTI The Maharashtra government will set up a committee to probe the alleged misuse of state funds in the implementation of the Prajwala scheme launched by the erstwhile BJP-led government Women and Child Development Minister Yashomati Thakur told the Legislative Council on Monday The Prajwala scheme was launched in 2019 by the then government aiming at creating awareness about legal matters social and financial knowledge among members of women Self Help Groups SHGs The scheme was implemented by the Maharashtra Women Commission Responding to calling attention raised by Shiv Sena legislator Manisha Kayande Thakur said The Maharashtra government will set up an inquiry committee which will probe the alleged misuse and wrongful usage of state funds under Prajwala scheme The then chairperson of the state womens commission will be also asked to depose before the inquiry commission BJP leader Vijaya Rahatkar was the chairperson of the state womens commission during 2014-19 PTI ND NSK NSK

Mumbai Mar 21 PTI The Maharashtra government will set up a committee to probe the alleged misuse of state funds in the implementation of the Prajwala scheme launched by the erstwhile BJP-led government Women and Child Development Minister Yashomati Thakur told the Legislative Council on Monday The Prajwala scheme was launched in 2019 by the then government aiming at creating awareness about legal matters social and financial knowledge among members of women Self Help Groups SHGs The scheme was implemented by the Maharashtra Women Commission Responding to calling attention raised by Shiv Sena legislator Manisha Kayande Thakur said The Maharashtra government will set up an inquiry committee which will probe the alleged misuse and wrongful usage of state funds under Prajwala scheme The then chairperson of the state womens commission will be also asked to depose before the inquiry commission BJP leader Vijaya Rahatkar was the chairperson of the state womens commission during 2014-19 Kayande told the Council that the bills submitted by officials of the state women commission were hand-written and not final The submitted bills were not in the proper format which is required as per the guidelines The scheme was supposed to be implemented in all the 288 assembly segments but it was implemented in select 98 assembly constituencies she said Kayande said that the assembly segments were selected in such a way that the scheme would benefit only BJP This is completely unethical There are some earlier CAG reports as well which had passed some strictures on the implementation of this scheme she said PTI ND NSK NSK

Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], January 12 (ANI): The Maharashtra government has approved 3 per cent funds under the district annual plan for the empowerment of women and children in every district through the Department of Women and Child Development, said minister for women and child development Adv. Yashomati Thakur on Wednesday.

Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], December 31 (ANI): Maharashtra Cabinet Minister for Women and Child Development Yashomati Thakur tested positive for COVID-19 on Friday.

Amravati Dec 31 PTI Maharashtra Minister Yashomati Thakur on Friday said she has tested positive for coronavirus and was taking treatment as per doctors advice Taking to Twitter the state minister for women and child welfare announced of her infection and urged people who came in contact with her to get tested Thakur who is also the guardian minister of Amravati said she was asymptomatic and was undergoing treatment as per doctors advice She also appealed to people to observe COVID-19 appropriate behaviour as the number of COVID-19 cases was on rise PTI COR ARU ARU

Mumbai Dec 24 PTI More than 4000 children were found suffering from acute malnutrition in Mumbai the financial capital of the country this year till August a Maharashtra minister has told the state Legislative Council Women and Child Development Minister Yashomati Thakur gave this information in the Upper House of the state legislature on Thursday while responding to a question asked by Congress MLC Bhai Jagtap As on August this year 4194 children were found suffering from acute malnutrition in Mumbai city Maximum cases were found in Dharavi Malvani Mankhurd and Govandi areas she said A nutrition rehabilitation centre was set up at Shatabdi Hospital in Mumbai on August 20 to provide medication to bring the children out of acute malnutrition Other schemes are also being implemented to improve the health of the malnourished children and their mothers Thakur added PTI ND NP NP

Mumbai Nov 25 PTI Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar on Thursday discussed the situation in violence-hit Amravati and the sudden return of senior IPS officer Param Bir Singh to Mumbai at a meeting attended by senior officials and key ministersThe meeting took place after the weekly cabinet meetHome Minister Dilip Walse Patil and women and child development minister Yashomati Thakur who is the guardian minister of Amravati were among those who attended the meetingOfficials said Singh who arrived in Mumbai on Thursday morning should have informed the government about his visitBy not doing so the former Mumbai police commissioner who has multiple extortion cases registered against him faces possible disciplinary action they saidOn his return to the city Singh appeared before the crime branch to record his statement in an extortion case filed against him in Mumbai The government has already started the administrative process to suspend the senior IPS officer who has been declared a proclaimed offender by a Mumbai courtThe situation in Amravati city which was rocked by violence around two weeks ago was also reviewed at the meeting the officials said PTI MR RSY RSY