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GOVERNMENT OF PUDUCHERRY

WOMEN AND CHILD DEVELOPMENT SECRETARIAT

(G.O. Ms. No. 01/2026-WCD(SW-IV)/53,

Puducherry, dated 05th January 2026)

NOTIFICATION

The Lieutenant-Governor, Puducherry is pleased to make the

following Amendment in the “Grant of Monthly Financial Assistance to

Women who are Heads of Families living Below Poverty Line (BPL)

Rules, 2023” notified vide G.O. Ms. No. 01/2023-WCD(SW-IV), dated 13th

January 2023 of the Women and Child Development Secretariat,

Puducherry and published in the Extraordinary Gazette Part-II, No. 19,

dated 7th February 2023 (hereinafter referred to as the said rules) as

amended namely:–

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AMENDMENT

1. Short title and commencement.— (i)These rules may be called

“Grant of Monthly Financial Assistance to Women who are Heads of

Families living Below Poverty Line (BPL) (Amendment) Rules, 2025.

(ii) These rules shall extend to the whole of the Union territory

of Puducherry.

(iii) It shall come into force from the date of its notification in

the Official Gazette.

2. In the said rules, Rule 6.— for the figures “

1,000, the words

and figures 2,500 (Rupees two thousand and five hundred only) shall

be substituted.

3. In the said rule, in rule 7.— in sub-rule (1) of rule 7.

The following shall be substituted.

The monthly financial assistance shall be made through Direct

Benefit Transfer (DBT) mode via Aadhaar Enabled Payment System

(AEPS) through Public Financial Management System (PFMS) directly

into the Aadhaar linked Bank Account of the Women Head of a BPL

family. The Assistance shall become due for payment only on the expiry

of the month to which it relates.

2. This issues with the concurrence of the Finance Department,

vide their I.D.No.E.Comp.No. 38880/FD/F5/A1/FC/2025-26,dated 23-12-2025.

(By order of the Lieutenant-Governor)

P. MUTHU MEENA,

Under Secretary to Government

(Women and Child Development).

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