Uttar Pradesh: Social welfare schemes

Uttar Pradesh's social welfare schemes cover pensions, marriage grants, scholarships, food security, labour welfare and support for persons with disabilities, backward classes, minorities and tribal villages. The Budget 2026-27 proposes ₹14,953 crore for social welfare, 8% more than 2025-26.

Social Pensions

• Old Age/Farmer Pension Scheme: 67.50 lakh beneficiaries get 1,000 per month; provision ₹8,950 crore.
• National old age pension has been run by the Social Welfare Department since 1994, for people over 60 living below the poverty line (state pension portal, in Hindi).
• Destitute women pension: for women aged 18 or more left destitute after the husband's death, run by the Women Welfare Department.
• Divyangjan Pension Yojana: 1,000 per month to more than 11 lakh persons with disabilities, up from 300 before 2017; provision ₹1,470 crore. It covers people with 40 percent or more disability, mental disability or hearing impairment (portal).
• Pension paid in 2025-26 (portal summary): 7838.79 crore in old age pension and 9,065 crore across all four pensions, including leprosy pension.

Marriage Grants

• Mukhyamantri Samuhik Vivah Yojana: the grant for marriage of girls of all classes rose from 51,000 to 1.01 lakh; provision ₹750 crore.
• Shadi Anudan Yojana: ₹100 crore for daughters of poor Scheduled Caste families, ₹50 crore for the General Category and ₹210 crore for OBC families.

Scholarships and Education

• Scheduled Caste Pre-10th and Post-10th Scholarship: ₹977 crore.
• General Category pre-10th and post-10th scholarship: ₹950 crore.
• Backward Class pre-matric and post-matric scholarships: ₹3,060 crore and 50 lakh; Backward Class Welfare in total ₹3,402 crore (9% higher).
• Hostels for backward class students: ₹20 crore.
• Atal Awasiya Vidyalaya: free residential schooling from Class 6 to Class 12; 10,876 students enrolled; ₹70 crore.

Persons with Disabilities

• Welfare schemes: ₹2,140 crore, 8% higher than 2025-26.
• Bachpan Day Care Centres for pre-school readiness of hearing-impaired, intellectually disabled and visually impaired children aged 3 to 7 run in 18 divisional districts; new centres are planned in aspirational districts such as Chandauli, Siddharthnagar, Bahraich, Shravasti, Fatehpur and Sonbhadra.
• New scheme: E-Tricycles for female Divyang students.

Food Security

• Food and logistics schemes: about ₹20,124 crore.
• Annapurna Yojana: ₹15,480 crore.
• Free LPG Cylinder Refilling Yojana: ₹1,500 crore.
• Annapurna Bhawans: ₹500 crore for construction.

Labour and Employment

• MGNREGA (2025-26): 20 crore 19 lakh 62 thousand person-days up to 13 January 2026 against a target of 20 crore, which the budget calls the highest in the country; 47.11 lakh families employed.
• e-Shram: Family IDs are being given to 8.41 crore workers registered on the portal.
• Ex-Gratia Grant: unorganised workers registered on e-Shram from 26.08.2021 to 31.03.2022 get 1 lakh for partial disability and 2 lakh for death or permanent disability.
• Uttar Pradesh Rozgar Mission: ₹200 crore to find national and international jobs for job-seekers.
• Labour Addas will be built for migrant workers in cities; mobile health vans are being piloted for construction workers.
• Mukhyamantri Yuva Udyami Vikas Abhiyan Yojana: guarantee-free, interest-free loans, with a target of 1 lakh micro-enterprises a year.

Minorities and Tribal Development

• Minority Welfare: ₹2,058 crore.
• Dharti Aaba Janjatiya Gram Utkarsh Abhiyan: launched on 02 October, 2024 to develop more than 63,000 tribal-dominated villages across India through 18 departments.
• PM JANMAN: comprehensive development of particularly vulnerable tribal groups.

Financial Inclusion

• 22.24 lakh Jan Dhan accounts opened, 17.14 lakh people enrolled in PMJJBY and 43.35 lakh in PMSBY, with 57,699 financial literacy camps held.