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Uttar Pradesh's Atal Awasiya Vidyalaya gives free residential schooling to children of registered construction workers and to some children orphaned during the Covid-19 pandemic. Admission to classes 6 and 9 is through an entrance exam.

Parents apply on the Uttar Pradesh Building and Other Construction Workers Welfare Board website or through the district administration page, and the Lucknow district page carries the apply link. For the 2026-27 session, the official admission rules set online applications from 1 January to 31 January 2026 and the entrance exam on 22 February 2026, with results on the board's website within 15 days of the exam. Those dates have passed, and the next session follows the government order of 23 January 2026, so parents should check for the new notification.

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Uttar Pradesh government's BC Sakhi Yojana gives rural women a fixed salary of ₹4,000 a month for the first six months after they start work as banking sakhis in their village. The scheme runs under Uttar Pradesh State Rural Livelihood Mission (UPSRLM).

A woman who joins gets commission on the bank transactions she handles for villagers, so more transactions mean more earning. UPSRLM may also give up to ₹50,000 to buy the devices needed for the work, such as a fingerprint scanner. The rules for this support should be read while filling the form.

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Union Agriculture and Farmers Welfare Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan launched an upgraded Agri Welfare Portal on 19 October 2026. The portal gives farmers direct access to government schemes, financial support and farm information on their mobile phones. Farmers no longer need to visit several government offices or open different websites to read scheme details or submit applications, the minister said at the launch.

The portal works as a single-window gateway to major schemes such as PM-KISAN, AgriStack and Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana. It also has online eligibility checks, application facilities and Direct Benefit Transfer, along with information on weather, scientific farming, seed and fertiliser availability and market prices.

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Over 26.59 lakh women in Odisha have become Lakhpati Didis under the Odisha Livelihood Mission (OLM). The number was shared at the mission's 5th Governing Committee meeting at Lok Seva Bhawan, chaired by Chief Secretary Anu Garg.

Garg asked officials to help successful Self-Help Groups (SHGs) grow into small and medium enterprises. She wanted high-performing SHGs and SMEs benchmarked as models for other community groups. She also directed that livelihood work get priority in Gramoday and PM-JANMAN areas, with regular monitoring and progress reviews.

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Gujarat has announced an extra subsidy on rooftop solar systems of up to 2 kW installed under PM Surya Ghar: Muft Bijli Yojana. With this, a general category household pays 10% of the benchmark cost and an SC or ST household pays 5%.

The state Cabinet, led by Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel, approved the decision on Wednesday. State government spokesperson and minister Jitu Vaghani said it will bring rooftop solar within reach of poor, middle-class and other households. Gujarat pays the rest of the installation cost after the central support and the household share are deducted. The state expects to spend about ₹1,000 crore on the extra subsidy, which it says will cover more than 3 lakh households.

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Jammu and Kashmir has proposed a household-level enumeration of vulnerable families to find multidimensional deprivations and improve how welfare schemes are targeted. The plan came up at a meeting chaired by Nasir Aslam Wani, Advisor to Chief Minister.

At this stage the survey will cover only Antyodaya Anna Yojana (AAY) households and people who get the old-age pension in Jammu and Kashmir under NSAP and ISSS. Other households stay out of its scope for now.

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PM-KUSUM's next phase will support agrivoltaic capacity, where farmers grow crops and earn from solar power on the same land, union minister for new and renewable energy Pralhad Joshi said at the Agrivoltaics World Conference 2026 on Wednesday. India is hosting the three-day conference for the first time in the Global South.

A large agrivoltaic programme is planned under the next phase of PM-KUSUM, Joshi said. It will add agrivoltaic capacity by linking the scheme with existing agriculture programmes. Elevated and tilted structures make agrivoltaic plants 25-30 per cent costlier than ground-mounted solar, and the government wants to reduce this cost gap, he said.

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Registrations under PM Vishwakarma have crossed the 30 lakh mark nationally, ahead of the 2028 target. As of September 30, 2026, 30,03,925 artisans and craftspeople were registered, and over 24.39 lakh of them had completed basic training.

Rajasthan ranks fourth in the country. The state has more than 2.30 lakh registrations, and basic training is complete for 2,22,473 people. Carpenters account for the most registrations in the state at 45,958, followed by masons at 38,450. Over 62,000 loans have been sanctioned in Rajasthan and 2,17,084 e-vouchers issued for toolkit support.

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Women in Gujarat are finding it hard to claim maternity benefits under Pradhan Mantri Matru Vandana Yojana (PMMVY) and Janani Suraksha Yojana (JSY) because of document problems and portal failures, a survey of frontline health workers has found.

Anna Suraksha Adhikar Abhiyan-Gujarat, the state unit of the Right to Food Campaign, spoke to 28 ASHA workers, ANMs and Anganwadi workers in nine districts in June and July 2026. Four districts are in tribal areas: Dahod, Panchmahal, Sabarkantha and Banaskantha. The other five are Morbi, Bhavnagar, Vadodara, Surendranagar and Patan.

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