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Step-by-step guides

PM-KISAN next installment date

The 23rd installment was paid on 20 June 2026. The 24th has no official date yet. Here is every release so far, the pattern behind them, and what to fix before the next one.

PM-KISAN beneficiary status

Know Your Status on the official portal shows every installment paid to you and the three flags that decide whether the next one comes. Here is how to read it and what to do about each No.

PM-KISAN e-KYC

e-KYC is mandatory for every installment. There are three official ways to do it — including one that needs no OTP and no fingerprint — and each suits a different situation.

PM-KISAN beneficiary list

The portal publishes the beneficiary list down to village level. Here is how to open your village's list, what it shows, and what to do if your name is missing.

Ayushman card card download

Log in to the official beneficiary portal, beneficiary.nha.gov.in, with your mobile number, complete Aadhaar e-KYC, and download the card once it is approved. The Ayushman App does the same on a phone. People aged 70 or above can enrol for the Vay Vandana card through the same routes.

Ayushman card hospital list

Your Ayushman card works only at empanelled hospitals. The official search lets you filter by state, district, hospital name and speciality — and shows which hospitals are suspended.

Ayushman card eligibility

Eligibility rests on the 2011 SECC list, state additions, and — since October 2024 — age alone for anyone 70 or above. Here is how each route works and how to check yours in two minutes.

Ladki Bahin Yojana installments

Maharashtra pays ₹1,500 a month. The last month the government named in a public release was February–March 2025, and we found no official notice giving a date for any month since — your own payments show in your account on the scheme portal. The latest Government Resolution we found, of August 2025, still sets ₹1,500 a month.

Ladki Bahin Yojana e-KYC

e-KYC is the Aadhaar authentication the department uses to verify beneficiaries, and a pending e-KYC holds the payment. What most pages leave out: the scheme also asks for the Aadhaar authentication of your husband or father, and there is an official exemption route if he has died or you are divorced.

Subhadra Yojana installment dates

Subhadra pays ₹5,000 twice a year: the first installment on Rakhi Purnima and the second on International Women's Day, 8 March, under the scheme guideline. The 5th installment was disbursed on 28 August 2026. By that calendar the next falls on 8 March 2027; no date has been announced yet.

Mahtari Vandan Yojana installment dates

The 31st installment — September 2026's ₹1,000, paid early before Raksha Bandhan — was transferred on 25 August 2026 to 67,28,918 women. No official date has been announced for the 32nd.

Maiya Samman Yojana installment date

Jharkhand's rule is that the monthly ₹2,500 reaches each woman's bank account by the 15th of every month. The state does not publish a dated notice for each month's payment, so if the 15th has passed without it, check that your bank account is linked to Aadhaar and call the toll-free helpline.

Ladli Behna Yojana installment dates

The Madhya Pradesh government announced that the 40th installment of ₹1,500 would be transferred on Sunday, 13 September 2026, to 1,25,10,150 women. The 39th was announced for 19 August 2026. There is no fixed date: over the last year, payments were made between the 12th and the 19th of the month.

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Eligibility, exclusions, documents and the application process for India’s largest welfare and savings schemes — open in every state.

Central scheme

PM-KISAN

PM-KISAN gives land-holding farmer families income support of ₹6,000 a year, paid directly into their bank accounts in three equal installments of ₹2,000. Twenty-three installments have been released so far; the 24th has not yet been announced.

Central scheme

Ayushman card

PM-JAY gives eligible families health cover of ₹5 lakh per family per year for hospitalisation, cashless at empanelled hospitals. Since October 2024 every citizen aged 70 or above qualifies regardless of income, through the Ayushman Vay Vandana card.

Central scheme

e-Shram card

e-Shram registers unorganised workers aged 16 to 59 on a national database and issues a Universal Account Number card, which is used as a single entry point to a set of central social security schemes.

Central scheme

Sukanya Samriddhi Yojana

Sukanya Samriddhi Yojana is a small savings account for a girl child that currently earns 8.2% a year, compounded annually, with deposits qualifying for a deduction under Section 80C.

Central scheme

PM Surya Ghar

PM Surya Ghar pays a central subsidy towards rooftop solar for households — ₹30,000 for a 1 kW system, ₹60,000 for 2 kW and ₹78,000 for 3 kW or larger — so families can generate their own electricity. The scheme is open until 31 March 2027.

Central scheme

PM Vishwakarma

PM Vishwakarma supports traditional artisans and craftspeople in 18 trades with skill training and a ₹500 daily stipend, a ₹15,000 toolkit grant, and collateral-free loans of up to ₹3 lakh at a 5% interest rate.

Central scheme

Atal Pension Yojana

Atal Pension Yojana gives subscribers a central-government-guaranteed monthly pension of ₹1,000 to ₹5,000 from the age of 60, in return for regular contributions made from the age they join until 60.

State government schemes

Schemes by state

Cash-transfer and welfare schemes run by individual states. Each guide names the state, the exact amount and who is excluded.

Maharashtra

Ladki Bahin Yojana

Maharashtra pays ₹1,500 a month to eligible women aged 21 to 65 whose family income is not more than ₹2.5 lakh a year. Married, widowed, divorced, abandoned and destitute women qualify, and so does one unmarried woman per family.

Karnataka

Gruha Lakshmi

Karnataka pays ₹2,000 a month to the woman named as head of the family on an Antyodaya, BPL or APL ration card. Registration has no closing date, and payments have been going out by Direct Benefit Transfer since 30 August 2023.

Tamil Nadu

Magalir Urimai Thogai

Tamil Nadu pays ₹1,000 a month to women heads of family whose household earns under ₹2.5 lakh a year, by Direct Benefit Transfer. About 1.31 crore women receive it. Launched in 2023 as Kalaignar Magalir Urimai Thittam, it is called Magalir Urimai Thittam in the 2026-27 Policy Note.

West Bengal

Swasthya Sathi

West Bengal's own cashless health cover gives an eligible family up to ₹5 lakh a year for secondary and tertiary hospital care, on a paperless smart card the state issues free. Over 2.42 crore families are covered and treatment is cashless at more than 2,800 empanelled hospitals.

Bihar

Mahila Rojgar Yojana

Bihar gives one woman in every family ₹10,000 to start a livelihood of her own, with up to ₹2 lakh more later if the enterprise works. The scheme was launched on 26 September 2025, when ₹10,000 was transferred to 75 lakh women at once.

West Bengal

Lakshmir Bhandar

West Bengal pays ₹1,200 a month to women from Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe households and ₹1,000 a month to women of other categories, aged 25 to 60, whose household is enrolled in Swasthya Sathi. The money is credited by Direct Benefit Transfer to a single bank account in the woman's own name.

Odisha

Subhadra Yojana

Odisha pays eligible women aged 21 to 60 ₹10,000 a year — ₹5,000 on International Women's Day and ₹5,000 on Rakhi Purnima — for five years, a total of ₹50,000. More than one crore women are expected to be covered.

Chhattisgarh

Mahtari Vandan Yojana

Chhattisgarh pays ₹1,000 a month to married women aged 21 and above — including widowed, divorced and deserted women — by Direct Benefit Transfer. Around 70 lakh women are covered; the first installment of ₹655 crore was released on 10 March 2024.

Uttar Pradesh

Kanya Sumangala Yojana

Uttar Pradesh pays a girl child ₹25,000 in six stages from birth to graduation — ₹5,000 at birth, ₹2,000 on full immunisation, ₹3,000 each on entering class 1 and class 6, ₹5,000 on entering class 9, and ₹7,000 on enrolling in a degree or two-year diploma. Family income must be ₹3 lakh or less.

Jharkhand

Maiya Samman Yojana

Jharkhand pays ₹2,500 a month to women aged 18 to 50 from ration-card-holding families, by Direct Benefit Transfer to an Aadhaar-linked account in the woman's own name. Applications are taken at camps across the state.

Madhya Pradesh

Ladli Behna Yojana

Madhya Pradesh pays ₹1,500 a month to eligible married women aged 21 to 59 from families earning up to ₹2.5 lakh a year. The amount was ₹1,000 at launch in 2023 and rose to ₹1,500 from November 2025; about 1.25 crore women receive it. There is no fixed payment date: recent installments were paid between the 12th and the 19th of the month.

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Work out the gratuity payable on retirement or resignation under the Payment of Gratuity Act, 1972, from your last drawn salary and years of service.

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Project the maturity value of a Public Provident Fund account from your yearly deposit, the notified interest rate and the number of years you stay invested.

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Sukanya Samriddhi Yojana Calculator

Estimate the maturity amount of a Sukanya Samriddhi Account from your yearly deposit and the notified interest rate, over the scheme's 15-year deposit period and 21-year term.

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8th Pay Commission Salary Calculator

Estimate a revised basic pay under the 8th Pay Commission from your current basic pay and a fitment factor you choose — none has been announced yet.

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DA Arrears Calculator

Work out the dearness allowance arrears due on your basic pay when DA is raised with effect from an earlier date.

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Income Tax Calculator

Work out income tax for Tax Year 2026-27 under both the new and the old regime, with the rebate, standard deduction, surcharge and cess applied.

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HRA Calculator

Work out how much of your house rent allowance is exempt from tax under rule 279 of the Income-tax Rules, 2026, and how much is taxable.

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EPF Calculator

Project your Employees' Provident Fund balance at retirement from your wages, the 12% contributions and the interest rate, credited on the monthly running balance.

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