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About 40 lakh women received ₹9,000 each nether a beneficiary strategy successful poll-bound Assam connected Tuesday (March 10, 2026). The full currency disbursed—₹3,600 crore—marked the biggest ever single-day nonstop payment transportation (DBT) successful the State.
Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said the outgo nether the flagship Orunodoi strategy for families beneath the poorness enactment included a Bihu bonus of ₹4,000. Bohag Bihu, besides called Rongali Bihu, is celebrated for a period from mid-April.
The remaining ₹5,000 comprised 4 monthly instalments from January to April. Under the strategy launched successful 2020, each beneficiary receives ₹1,250 per month. Mr. Sarma insisted that the further outgo was not an predetermination freebie.
“Through #Orunodoi, 1 of India’s archetypal beneficiary transportation schemes, we person been assisting eligible families with monthly fiscal assistance since 2020, and it continues,” helium posted connected X.
He said the scheme, on with different payment programmes, had helped propulsion lakhs of radical successful Assam retired of poorness and provided them with a broad information net.
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led authorities has disbursed ₹17,000 crore since the strategy was launched to empower radical affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. Mr. Sarma said that the pandemic deed women the hardest, making them conflict to tally their families.
“The Jan Dhan slope accounts were instrumental successful implementing Orunodoi. It could not person been imaginable if radical did not person slope accounts,” helium said portion addressing beneficiaries during 1 of the 3,800 gatherings crossed the State wherever the transfers were made online.
“The Jan Dhan slope accounts were instrumental successful implementing Orunodoi. It would not person been imaginable if radical did not person slope accounts,” helium said portion addressing beneficiaries during 1 of the 3,800 gatherings crossed the State wherever the transfers were made online.
Mr. Sarma said the strategy covered astir 90% of the eligible women successful the State. “We volition request a BJP authorities to screen the remaining 10%,” helium said, vowing to instrumentality much radical retired of poverty.
He added that the BJP would supply escaped pulses, sugar, salt, and mustard lipid to the eligible families if re-elected, too fractional a kilogram of tea. At present, the Assam Government provides a monthly combo of 1 kg of pulses, 1 kg of sugar, and 1 kg of brackish astatine ₹100.
