{"id":18090,"date":"2026-06-15T18:46:15","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T13:16:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/news\/-2026-06-15-18090\/"},"modified":"2026-06-15T18:46:17","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T13:16:17","slug":"lakshmir-bhandar-annapurna-bhandar-migration-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/new-bengal\/lakshmir-bhandar-annapurna-bhandar-migration-rules-2026-06-15-18090\/","title":{"rendered":"Lakshmir Bhandar to Annapurna Bhandar: Do You Need to Apply Again?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Bengal Story Bureau:<\/strong> Women already enrolled in Lakshmir Bhandar do not need to submit a fresh application for the Annapurna Bhandar scheme: the West Bengal government is migrating existing beneficiaries automatically after re-verification, and those who clear the screening move straight to the new flat payment of Rs 3,000 a month. The first instalments under the rebranded scheme reached more than 28 lakh accounts from June 3, 2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The reassurance, however, comes with a caveat. The migration is not a blind transfer. Every name on the old rolls is being re-verified against Aadhaar, electoral records and bank seeding, and names that fail the check are being dropped, which is why some long-time Lakshmir Bhandar recipients have found the new instalment missing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What has changed, and by how much<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Lakshmir Bhandar, launched by the previous Trinamool Congress government in August 2021, began with Rs 500 a month for general-category women and Rs 1,000 for SC and ST women, later raised to a range of roughly Rs 1,500 to Rs 1,700. Annapurna Bhandar, cleared at the new BJP government’s first cabinet meeting on May 11, 2026, replaces those slabs with a uniform Rs 3,000 for every eligible woman, regardless of category.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The payment mechanics stay familiar: a monthly Direct Benefit Transfer into an Aadhaar-linked bank account held in the beneficiary’s own name. What has tightened is the gate. The government has said re-verification of the inherited rolls flagged around 30 lakh entries as ineligible, duplicate or otherwise defective, and the new scheme bakes in Aadhaar validation, electoral-roll screening and family-level data collection as standing features.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Who migrates automatically<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Existing Lakshmir Bhandar beneficiaries whose records survive the re-verification are carried over without any paperwork. They do not fill the new form, do not visit a camp and do not register on the new portal; the upgraded amount simply replaces the old one in the same bank account.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The beneficiary list is being refreshed every seven days, so a woman whose name did not appear in the first payment batch is not necessarily out. Her record may simply be in a later verification cycle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Who must act<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Three groups need to do something. First, dropped beneficiaries: women whose names were removed during re-verification, whether over a document mismatch, a duplicate entry or an eligibility question, should check their status on the official portal and, if they meet the criteria, reapply with corrected documents within the 90-day enrolment window. Second, women who were never on Lakshmir Bhandar: they apply fresh, online through the Social Registry portal at socialregistry.wb.gov.in or offline at Duare Sarkar camps and block offices. Third, beneficiaries with stale bank details: anyone whose account has changed, closed or lost its Aadhaar seeding since enrolment should update the record, since a failed DBT push is the most common reason an approved name still sees no money.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How to check whether you have been migrated<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Open the official portal, use the Track Applicant Status or citizen login option, verify with the OTP sent to the registered mobile number, and the dashboard shows whether the record stands approved under Annapurna Bhandar and whether the Rs 3,000 instalment has been processed. The check works with the Aadhaar number or registered phone number even without an Application ID.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What happens next<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Officials estimate the scheme could eventually cover around two crore women, against the 28 lakh paid in the opening round, which means the migration and fresh-enrolment pipelines will run side by side for months. For existing beneficiaries the practical advice is short: do nothing if the money has arrived, check the portal if it has not, and treat anyone demanding a fee to “transfer” a Lakshmir Bhandar account to the new scheme as a fraud, because the migration is automatic and free.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Existing Lakshmir Bhandar beneficiaries are being moved to Annapurna Bhandar’s Rs 3,000 monthly payout automatically after re-verification. Here is who migrates, who must reapply and how to check your status.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1235,"featured_media":18091,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_seo_keywords":"Lakshmir Bhandar Annapurna Bhandar, laxmi bhandar, Lakshmir Bhandar migration, Annapurna Bhandar old beneficiaries, Lakshmir Bhandar stopped, Annapurna Bhandar Rs 3000, Lakshmir Bhandar to Annapurna Yojana, do Lakshmir Bhandar beneficiaries need to apply again, Annapurna Bhandar beneficiary list, West Bengal women scheme, West Bengal News, Kolkata News, India News, Latest News","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[5793,5847,709,5792,403,5794],"class_list":["post-18090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-bengal","tag-annapurna-bhandar","tag-lakshmir-bhandar","tag-suvendu-adhikari","tag-west-bengal-government-schemes","tag-west-bengal-politics","tag-women-welfare-schemes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1235"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18090"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18090\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18092,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18090\/revisions\/18092"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}