Karnali shelves flagship girls’ savings scheme, leaving 11,000 beneficiaries in limbo

The provincial government has excluded the programme from next year’s budget after suspending deposits for four years, triggering criticism from lawmakers and uncertainty over more than Rs420 million already held in beneficiaries’ accounts.

Karnali Province’s flagship social protection programme, ‘Bank Account for Every Daughter, Lifetime Security’, has been left in limbo after the provincial government omitted it from its budget for the coming fiscal year.