Jharkhand Budget 2025: In the Jharkhand Budget 2025, students of class 8th-12th will get Rs 5,000 and adolescent girls will get Rs 20,000. The government will spend Rs 13,363 crore on schemes like Maiya Samman Yojana, Sarvajan Pension and Mother Kit for women.
Jharkhand Budget 2025: There is good news for the students studying in Jharkhand. That is, the Hemant government of the state has doubled the amount given to students studying from 8th to 12th class. In the annual budget of Jharkhand presented in the assembly on Monday for the financial year 2025-26, it has been proposed to increase the lump sum amount of Rs 2,500 to Rs 5,000 for these students. Apart from this, a proposal has been presented for pension of pregnant women, disabled, widows etc.
Girls will get Rs 5,000 and teenagers will get Rs 20,000
Finance Minister Radhakrishna Kishore said in his budget speech that under the Savitribai Phule Kishori Samridhi Yojana, which is run to attract girls and teenagers towards higher education, to stop child marriage and to prevent female foeticide, students from class 8th to 12th will be given Rs 2,500 to Rs 5,000 and a lump sum of Rs 20,000 will be given to teenagers of 18 to 19 years. Apart from this, a lump sum financial assistance of Rs 30,000 will be given at the time of marriage of young women under the Chief Minister Kanyadan Yojana. A total provision of Rs 310 crore has been made for spending on this.
The government will spend Rs 13,363.35 crore on Mainiya Samman Yojana
Apart from this, the Jharkhand government will spend Rs 13,363.35 crore on Mainiya Samman Yojana. In his budget speech, Finance Minister Radhakrishna Kishore said that the government has launched the Jharkhand Mukhyamantri Mainiya Samman Yojana for women aged 18 to 50 years to make the women of the state economically self-reliant, socially empowered, physically healthy, mentally alert and educated to build a strong and capable state and society. Under this scheme, a budgetary provision of Rs 13,363.35 crore is proposed in the financial year 2025-26 to pay Rs 2,500 to each woman of the state.
34 lakh people benefit from Sarvajan Pension Scheme
The Finance Minister said that under the Chief Minister Sarvajan Yojana, benefits are given to a person of 60 years of age, but the benefit of pension is being given to the disabled, people of primitive tribes, destitute women, persons suffering from HIV-AIDS and transgenders as well as all economically weaker women who have completed 50 years of age and all persons of Scheduled Castes and Tribes. Under this scheme, a total budgetary provision of Rs 3,850.66 crore is being made in the financial year 2025-26. Under this, about 34 lakh people will get benefit.
Pension to widows, elderly and disabled
Finance Minister Radhakrishna Kishore also said that a total budgetary provision of Rs 1,449.26 crore is being made for the financial year 2025-26 under the Indira Gandhi National Old Age Pension Scheme, Indira Gandhi National Widow Pension Scheme and Indira Gandhi National Disabled Pension Scheme. This will enable pension to be given to about 12 lakh people.
