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IGNWPSM

Indira Gandhi National Widow Pension Scheme (Maharashtra)
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What this is

"Indira Gandhi National Widow Pension Scheme (Maharashtra)" is a scheme by the Social Justice & Special Assistance Dept, Govt of Maharashtra. In this scheme, widows aged 40 to 79 years who are from a BPL family receive a pension of ₹1500/- per month.

In detail

The scheme "Indira Gandhi National Widow Pension Scheme (Maharashtra)" is a social welfare scheme implemented by the Social Justice & Special Assistance Department, Government of Maharashtra. Under this Centrally Sponsored Scheme, widows aged 40 to 79 years who are from a Below Poverty Line family are eligible to receive ₹1500/- per month as pension.

Who qualifies

  • The applicant should be a resident of Maharashtra.
  • The applicant should be a widow.
  • The age of the applicant should be between 40 and 79 years.
  • The applicant should belong to a Below Poverty Line (BPL) family.
  • The applicant should not be receiving pension benefits under any social security scheme.

What you get

  • A pension of ₹1500 per month is given to each beneficiary.

NOTE: ₹300/- per month from the central government and ₹1200/- per month under the state-sponsored Sanjay Gandhi Niradhar Anudan Yojana.

Listed by myScheme
Documentation completeness
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Eligibility published here331 characters
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Benefit amount published hereamount or quantity stated
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Description more than a name250 characters
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Implementing agency published herefield absent from the record
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How to apply published hereoffline mode declared, no URL needed
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Start date published herenot published
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End date published hereno end date recorded, so indefinite by omission
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Stored links well-formedall parse
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Not expired while still listedno end date
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Provenance

Every field above, and where it came from
schemeNameIndira Gandhi National Widow Pension Scheme (Maharashtra)myScheme · 2026-09-02
schemeOpenDate...not published at source
schemeCloseDate...not published at source
nodalMinistryName...myScheme · 2026-09-02
dbtSchemeFalsemyScheme · 2026-09-02
achievement data...no source publishes this for any central scheme