Cash-Transfer Schemes for Women: A State-by-State Directory

Fifteen Indian states now run their own cash-transfer scheme for women. Each pays a different amount, to different women, under a different name. This page rounds up every one in a single directory.

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Cash-Transfer Schemes for Women

A State-by-State Directory

15

States Covered

13

Actively Paying

2

Suspended / Not Yet Paid

Same Idea, Fifteen Different Shapes

Amounts range from Rs 1,000 to Rs 2,500 a month. Eligibility runs from age bands to income caps to employment status. Two states have already reversed or renamed their scheme after a change of government.

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State-by-State Directory

Assam — Orunodoi

Orunodoi launched on 2 October 2020, under then Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal. It pays Rs 1,250 a month, to women heads of AAY (Antyodaya Anna Yojana) households. Eligible women must be aged 16 to 59, with family income under Rs 2 lakh a year. It now reaches over 37 lakh women, and was the original template many later state schemes copied. Read more: IndSoc0069 — Orunodoi.

Chhattisgarh — Mahtari Vandan Yojana

Mahtari Vandan Yojana launched on 1 March 2024, under Chief Minister Vishnu Deo Sai’s BJP government. It pays Rs 1,000 a month to married women aged 21 or above; widows, divorced, and deserted women also qualify. Family income must be under Rs 2.5 lakh a year. An e-KYC verification drive ran from April to June 2026, with non-compliant beneficiaries losing further payments. Read more: IndSoc0065 — Mahtari Vandan Yojana.

Delhi — Delhi Lakshmi Yojana

Delhi’s Cabinet approved this scheme on 8 March 2025, under Chief Minister Rekha Gupta, as Mahila Samridhi Yojana. It was renamed Delhi Lakshmi Yojana on 14 July 2026. Eligible women aged 21 to 60 are set to receive Rs 2,500 a month, once payments begin. As of this writing, rollout is planned around Raksha Bandhan 2026. No payment has actually gone out yet — over a year after Cabinet approval. Read more: IndSoc0072 — Delhi Lakshmi Yojana.

Goa — Griha Aadhar Scheme

Griha Aadhar launched in 2020, run by Goa’s Directorate of Women and Child Development. It pays Rs 2,500 a month, but only to homemakers not in any paid employment — a salaried job ends eligibility immediately. This is the only scheme in the directory gated by employment status rather than age or marital status. Read more: IndSoc0075 — Griha Aadhar Scheme.

Haryana — Deendayal Lado Lakshmi Yojana

Deendayal Lado Lakshmi Yojana launched on 25 September 2025, under Chief Minister Nayab Singh Saini. It pays Rs 2,100 a month, to women aged 23 or older with 15 years of Haryana domicile. Its launch date, Deendayal Upadhyaya’s birth anniversary, came roughly a year after it was first promised. Read more: IndSoc0073 — Deendayal Lado Lakshmi Yojana.

Himachal Pradesh — Indira Gandhi Pyari Behna Sukh-Samman Nidhi Yojana

This scheme launched on 25 February 2024, under Chief Minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu. It fulfilled a 2022 Congress election promise. It pays Rs 1,500 a month, direct to a woman’s bank account. Rollout is happening district by district rather than statewide at once, and remains incomplete. Read more: IndSoc0071 — Indira Gandhi Pyari Behna Sukh-Samman Nidhi Yojana.

Jharkhand — Mukhyamantri Maiya Samman Yojana

Maiya Samman Yojana launched on 18 August 2024, under Chief Minister Hemant Soren’s JMM government. It initially paid Rs 1,000 a month, later raised to Rs 2,500, for women aged 21 to 50. From June 2026 onward, only beneficiaries who completed mandatory physical verification (Satyapan) at their Anganwadi centre keep receiving payment. Read more: IndSoc0066 — Mukhyamantri Maiya Samman Yojana.

Karnataka — Gruha Lakshmi

Gruha Lakshmi launched on 30 August 2023, one of five “guarantee” schemes from Congress’s 2023 Karnataka manifesto. It pays Rs 2,000 a month to women heads of household, reaching about 1.28 crore women. D.K. Shivakumar became Chief Minister in June 2026. He ordered all beneficiaries to resubmit applications, citing large-scale misuse, and a door-to-door verification drive has run since 1 July 2026. Read more: IndSoc0061 — Gruha Lakshmi.

Kerala — Sthree Suraksha (suspended)

Outgoing CM Pinarayi Vijayan launched Sthree Suraksha on 11 February 2026. It pays Rs 1,000 a month, to economically weaker women aged 35-60, including transwomen. Weeks later his LDF government lost Kerala’s 2026 election. The new UDF government, under CM V.D. Satheesan, has since halted payments entirely, with the scheme’s future still undecided as of his 29 June 2026 statement. This is the only scheme in the directory that is not currently paying anyone. Read more: IndSoc0076 — Sthree Suraksha.

Madhya Pradesh — Ladli Behna Yojana

Ladli Behna Yojana launched under then-CM Shivraj Singh Chouhan on 5 March 2023. It became the template most later state schemes followed. It now pays Rs 1,500 a month, up from an original Rs 1,250, reaching more than 1.27 crore women. The state government has flagged a further increase, to Rs 3,000 a month by 2028. Read more: IndSoc0059 — Ladli Behna Yojana.

Maharashtra — Ladki Bahin Yojana

Mukhyamantri Majhi Ladki Bahin Yojana was approved on 28 June 2024, under then-CM Eknath Shinde. It pays Rs 1,500 a month to women aged 21-65, with family income under Rs 2.5 lakh a year. A verification drive begun in September 2025 has since removed 92 lakh names, nearly 38% of the total. Beneficiaries fell from a peak of 2.43 crore to just over 1.5 crore by July 2026. The state’s budget for the scheme was cut by Rs 9,500 crore to match. Read more: IndSoc0063 — Ladki Bahin Yojana.

Odisha — Subhadra Yojana

PM Modi launched Subhadra Yojana on 17 September 2024, at Bhubaneswar. It pays Rs 10,000 a year, in two installments, to women aged 21-60 with family income under Rs 2.5 lakh. The scheme runs five years through 2029, for a total payout of Rs 50,000 per woman. By April 2026, enrollment had crossed 1 crore women, across all 30 districts of Odisha. Read more: IndSoc0064 — Subhadra Yojana.

Punjab — Mukh Mantri Mawan Dheeyan da Satkar Yojana

CM Bhagwant Mann announced this scheme on 8 March 2026. It is the only one in the directory with a tiered payout: Rs 1,000 a month for general-category women, Rs 1,500 for Scheduled Caste women. It launched with a pilot phase covering nine assembly constituencies, not a statewide rollout. Read more: IndSoc0074 — Mukh Mantri Mawan Dheeyan da Satkar Yojana.

Tamil Nadu — formerly Kalaignar Magalir Urimai Thogai

Then-CM M.K. Stalin launched this scheme on 15 September 2023, paying Rs 1,000 a month to about 1.06 crore women heads of household. Tamil Nadu’s April 2026 election brought first-time party TVK to power; Stalin lost his own seat and resigned. The new government kept the scheme running. Its August 2026 budget dropped “Kalaignar” from the name, and skipped TVK’s own campaign promise to raise the payout to Rs 2,500. Read more: IndSoc0070 — Kalaignar Magalir Urimai Thogai.

West Bengal — Lakshmir Bhandar, now Annapurna Bhandar

The TMC government launched Lakshmir Bhandar in 2021. It later raised the rates to Rs 1,500 (general) and Rs 1,700 (SC/ST). The BJP’s first-ever West Bengal government took office on 9 May 2026, ending TMC’s 15-year rule. It replaced the scheme with Annapurna Bhandar from 3 June 2026. Annapurna Bhandar pays a flat Rs 3,000 a month, and covered around 1.3 crore women by its 1 July 2026 installment. Read more: IndSoc0060 — Lakshmir Bhandar.

Related, But Outside This Scope

This directory covers recurring cash transfers, paid to broad categories of women. Two related state schemes sit just outside that definition, and are left out of the table above.

• Bihar’s Mukhyamantri Mahila Rojgar Yojana is a lump-sum self-employment grant, not a recurring transfer. See IndSoc0068 — Mukhyamantri Mahila Rojgar Yojana.
• Andhra Pradesh’s NTR Bharosa Pension is a broader social security pension, not specific to women. See IndSoc0067 — NTR Bharosa Pension.

Test Yourself

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1. Among this directory’s 15 state cash-transfer schemes for women, which one is gated by employment status rather than age or marital status?

Odisha’s Subhadra Yojana

Goa’s Griha Aadhar Scheme

Assam’s Orunodoi

Karnataka’s Gruha Lakshmi

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Extending This Directory

This page is meant to grow. Whenever a new state cash-transfer scheme for women gets its own dedicated Article, add a matching row here. Update both the Quick-Reference Table and the State-by-State Directory above. Keep entries alphabetical by state, in the same 3-4 sentence format, ending in its own “Read more” link. Don’t just publish a standalone new Article and leave this hub out of date.