Assam launched Orunodoi scheme for womens financial empowerment

14-Aug-20

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Assam State Government launched "Orunodoi scheme", a mega scheme for women's financial empowerment. Under the mega scheme, a district-wise selection of beneficiaries will begin from August 17.
The beneficiaries will receive the amount in the bank account of a female family member on the first day of every month. The scheme will begin from the month of October 2020.
The scheme will provide Rs.830 per month each to 17 lakh poor families under the ambitious “Orunodoi” scheme.
The Assam state government has allocated a sum of Rs.280 crore for the new scheme.
It is expected that this will be the biggest scheme in Assam which will initially benefit at least 17 lakh families and the number would subsequently increase to 25 lakh.
The Orunodoi scheme focuses on empowering women while contributing to economic development.
The scheme aims to help the poor households to meet their medical, nutritional, and academic needs besides to meet the additional spending during various festivals.
Under the Orunodoi scheme, priority will be given to households with widows, divorced, unmarried or separated women, and disabled persons.
Inorder to avail the benefits of the scheme, the beneficiary should be a permanent resident of Assam, and their composite household income should be less than Rs.2 lakh per annum.
People who have certain movable and immovable assets including land, big houses, vehicles, electronic gadgets, and most government and semi-government employees, would be excluded benefitting from the scheme.