Overview

• Chief Minister Nayab Singh Saini launched the scheme in Panchkula on September 25 with a mobile registration app and two helplines (1800 180 2231, 0172 488 0500), alongside district camps for on-the-spot enrollment.
• Eligible beneficiaries are women aged 23 to 60 from families with verified annual income up to Rs 1 lakh under the Family ID system, with no cap on how many eligible women per household can enroll and residency provisions for those married into the state.
• The state set aside Rs 5,000 crore in the 2025–26 budget, opened registrations today, and says the first monthly transfers are planned to begin on November 1 via direct benefit transfer.
• On day one, reports from Gurgaon cited app glitches, long queues and heavy documentation demands at camps, even as the chief minister said the app had about 50,000 downloads and roughly 8,000 submitted applications.
• Official communications cite roughly 22 lakh potential beneficiaries, while draft figures and some leaders reference first-phase coverage as high as 46 lakh BPL women, highlighting uncertainty over targeting and fiscal size.