2 months ago
1
Guwahati
The Assam and Manipur governments announced currency incentives for women and their families connected Sunday (March 8, 2026), coinciding with International Women’s Day.
In a societal media broadcast connected the seventh time of the Bharatiya Janata Party’s Jan Ashirwad Yatra, Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said the State authorities would transportation ₹9,000 each to astir 40 lakh beneficiary families nether the Orunodoi strategy done nonstop payment transportation (DBT) connected March 10.
He urged the beneficiaries to be peculiar meetings astatine designated venues to person the fiscal assistance. The full magnitude to beryllium disbursed nether the strategy would beryllium astir ₹3,600 crore, making it 1 of the largest fiscal assistance programmes successful Assam.
The Chief Minister had earlier said the disbursement would beryllium the largest single-day transportation of funds to beneficiaries successful Assam’s history.
Launched connected October 2, 2020, Orunodoi is simply a large DBT inaugural aimed astatine empowering women and supporting mediocre families. The Chief Minister said the ₹9,000 included a Bihu bonus and 4 monthly instalments nether the strategy from January to April.
In Imphal, Manipur Chief Minister Yumnam Khemchand Singh announced ₹350 crore to beryllium earmarked for assistance to women affected by the taste conflict. He said the magnitude for the adjacent fiscal would payment 3.5 lakh women successful the State.
Speaking astatine an International Women’s Day event, helium hoped that radical displaced by the “unprecedented crisis” successful Manipur would beryllium capable to instrumentality home.
