• ●Annapurna Yojana is a West Bengal state scheme of the Department of Women and Child Development and Social Welfare, notified on 19 May 2026 and effective from 1 June 2026.
• ●Benefit: an assured Rs 3,000 every month, paid by Direct Benefit Transfer into the beneficiary's Aadhaar-linked bank account.
• ●Eligibility: women aged 25 to 60 who are not income-tax payers and hold no permanent government job, salary or pension from the state or central government, statutory bodies, panchayats, municipalities, local bodies or government-aided educational institutions.
• ●Existing beneficiaries of the state's earlier Lakshmir Bhandar scheme were migrated to the Annapurna Yojana.
• ●The fourth instalment, released on 17 September 2026, reached approximately 1.5 crore women.
• ●The date coincided with Vishwakarma Puja and was marked in the state as Annapurna Diwas.
• ●Aadhaar Enabled Payment System (AePS): an NPCI bank-led system allowing deposits, withdrawals and balance enquiry through a bank's Business Correspondent network using Aadhaar biometric authentication.
• ●Deendayal Antyodaya Yojana - National Rural Livelihoods Mission: launched June 2011 by the Ministry of Rural Development by restructuring the Swarnajayanti Gram Swarozgar Yojana, and renamed DAY-NRLM in November 2015.
• ●Lakhpati Didi: the DAY-NRLM initiative to raise self-help group members to an annual household income of at least Rs 1 lakh; the target was raised from 2 crore to 3 crore in the Interim Budget 2024-25.

Consider the following statements about West Bengal's Annapurna Yojana: 1. It provides an assured monthly payment of Rs 3,000 through Direct Benefit Transfer into Aadhaar-linked bank accounts. 2. It is administered by the Union Ministry of Women and Child Development. Which of the statements given above is/are correct?