Cabinet continues NSAP and revises disability assistance
Quick dive
- The Union Cabinet approved ₹53,428 crore for NSAP for five years from 2026–27 to 2030–31.
- The programme was renamed Pradhan Mantri Samajik Sahayata Yojana and the Indira Gandhi prefix was removed from three sub-schemes.
- The report says disability-pension eligibility and assistance rates were revised, while old-age, widow and family-benefit components continue.
- Critics cited a fixed five-year budget, 2011 SECC-based caps and an inflation calculation suggesting ₹55,698 crore would be needed for the existing base.
- exam_relevance: tests rights-based welfare design, social assistance targeting, inflation adequacy and the distinction between budgetary continuation and enforceable entitlement.
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