₹1,000/1500 per month to 97% women: Mawan Dheeyan Satkar Yojana
Last Updated: 2 November 2026
₹1,000 per month to women; ₹1,500 for SC women
-- Paid directly to bank accounts (DBT)[1][2]
-- ₹1,291 crore paid to 37.43 lakh women (1 Nov 2026)[3]
-- ₹3,934.80 crore paid so far[3:1]
-- Cost: about ₹12,000 crore a year[4]
97% women from Punjab covered in scheme[1:1]
-- Every woman in Punjab with 18+ years of age is eligible
-- 80.05 lakh women registered (till 29 October 2026)[3:2], Target: 1 crore women[4:1]
-- Barring only a few: existing or past permanent Government employees, existing and past MPs/MLAs and income tax payees
Universal scheme or just for poor?
-- 53% of Urban Indian women do not step outside home alone at all[5]
-- 80% of urban women areas do not work[5:1]
-- Closing this gender gap could add up to $700 billion to India’s GDP[6]
-- Saudebaaz politicians reduced welfare schemes to just poor with vote only mindset
1. Timeline
- 1 Nov 2026: ₹1,291 crore to 37.43 lakh women, announced at Abohar[3:3]
- 8 Oct 2026: ₹1,118.93 crore to 32 lakh+ women (1st instalment of 2nd phase)[4:2]
- Jul-Sep 2026: ₹2,602.46 crore to 75.16 lakh women[4:3]
- 28 Aug 2026: ₹181.50 crore paid to 5.30 lakh newly registered women on Rakhri; total 70.92 lakh women[7]
- 28 Jul 2026: ₹1,149 crore paid to 33 lakh women; 70 lakh+ enrolled[2:1]
- 1 July 2026: Launched at Dhuri; 3 months' amount paid together i.e. ₹3,000 (₹4,500 for SC women)[2:2]
- 8 March 2026: Announced in Punjab Budget 2026-27 on Women's Day[1:2]
2. Satkar Sakhis
- Local women volunteers who helped women register
- ₹51 crore incentive paid to 1.38 lakh Satkar Sakhis (Aug 2026)[7:1]
3. Upcoming instalments
References:
https://dailypioneer.com/news/punjab-budget-rs-1000month-for-women-rs-1500-for-sc-women-under-new-scheme ↩︎ ↩︎ ↩︎
https://www.tribuneindia.com/news/punjab/punjab-credits-rs-1149-crore-to-33-lakh-women-under-mawan-dheeyan-satkar-yojana-women-praise-dbt-model/ ↩︎ ↩︎ ↩︎
https://www.babushahi.com/view-news.php?id=229183 (Babushahi, 1 Nov 2026) ↩︎ ↩︎ ↩︎ ↩︎ ↩︎ ↩︎
https://www.babushahi.com/full-news.php?id=227902 (Punjab Govt Press Release, 8 Oct 2026) ↩︎ ↩︎ ↩︎ ↩︎
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2214367X23000054?via%3Dihub ↩︎ ↩︎
https://www.mckinsey.com/featured-insights/employment-and-growth/the-power-of-parity-advancing-womens-equality-in-india ↩︎
https://www.thehawk.in/news/india/punjab-cm-credits-rs-181-crore-sanman-rashi-into-accounts-of-7092-lakh-women (IANS) ↩︎ ↩︎
