The Delhi Lakshmi Yojana was formally launched on 26 August 2026, with Chief Minister Rekha Gupta handing over the first batch of sanction letters to beneficiary women at Talkatora Stadium in New Delhi.
The scheme gives eligible women aged 21 to 60 from lower-income households in the capital Rs 2,500 every month, with the first transfers due from 1 September 2026.
Lieutenant Governor Taranjit Singh Sandhu and Union Minister of State Harsh Malhotra were among those on stage.
What separates the scheme from comparable state programmes is not the headline amount.
It is that a majority of the money is routed into a locked savings instrument rather than into immediately spendable cash, and that the government is openly positioning the payout as seed capital rather than as monthly relief.
