Odisha to roll out Subhadra Plus umbrella scheme; check details

Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi proposed Rs 10,145 Crore for Subhadra and Rs 153 Crore under Subhadra Surakshya in the State Budget in FY 2025-26 for ensuring safety and security of women. The Odisha government has plans to roll out the Subhadra Plus umbrella scheme, the CM said in his speech in the House of the Legislative Assembly on Monday.

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“In line with our vision of women-led empowerment, our government is going to roll out the Subhadra Plus umbrella scheme to take up new initiatives including ‘Kishori Subhadra’, ‘Subhadra Sanchay, ‘Subhadra Surakhya’, ‘Subhadra Sakhi’, ‘Subhadra Yatri’, ‘Subhadra Sangh (Subhadra Club)’, ‘Kuha Subhadra (Call Centre)’, ‘Subhadra Sahyogi’, ‘Subhadra Scholars’, and ‘Sujogya Subhadra’, further enhancing the impact of Subhadra yojana on the lives of my sisters in Odisha,” the CM expressed.

“As an important step in the direction, our Government has successfully implemented the historic and path-breaking scheme for women's empowerment: SUBHADRA. This is the largest scheme in the history of Odisha and is a testimony to our commitment to rewriting Odisha's growth story with women occupying centrestage,” the CM stated.

The government will give Rs 50,000 over a period of five years to all eligible women. This is the first time that more than 1.07 crore women stepped out of their homes to apply for a scheme in their own name and money has reached their individual bank account through Direct Benefit Transfer (DBT), the CM asserted.

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Apart from providing financial assistance to women under ambitious Subhadra yojana, the State government has much more in store, the CM added.

So far, more than 98 lakh women have received the 1st instalment of Subhadra and more than Rs 4,900 Crore has been transferred to them. This has also transformed digital and financial inclusion of women.