Orunodoi 3.0 Assam Monthly Assistance — citizen guide 2026

If you only have 2 minutes: confirm you are on an NFSA ration card, call 1800-202-6256 on a working day, ask the circle / district office for this month's credit, then draft RTI with the AI RTI Drafter if the name is missing or the DBT failed. Read The RTI Playbook.

Orunodoi is a Government of Assam cash-transfer scheme, not a Union scheme. Finance (Institutional Finance) Department runs it. A nominated woman of an eligible household receives a fixed monthly sum by DBT so she has a small, predictable amount for household needs. The name is used as the umbrella for the state's household cash support. Orunodoi 3.0 superseded 1.0 and 2.0.

• Guidelines: Governor's notification, Finance (Institutional Finance) Department, 19 September 2024, ECF 337737/88, published on the Orunodoi 3.0 page. Those guidelines supersede earlier Orunodoi notifications.
• Launch of 3.0: Finance Department notification FD-12017/12/2024/536436/164 dated 13 October 2025 states that Orunodoi 3.0 was launched on 7 October 2025.
• Who implements: Finance Department at state level; District Commissioner at district level, through a District Level Monitoring Committee. Selection of ordinary (non-quota) names is at Gaon Panchayat / VCDC / ULB / VDC, then DLMC.
• Monthly amount: Guidelines para 4.1 — every beneficiary is entitled to ₹1,250 per month by DBT. The State may revise the quantum. The ₹1,250 is a single credit. The guideline table splits it for accounting (medicines ₹400, pulses ₹200, sugar ₹80, fruits and vegetables ₹150, Covid-19 expansion ₹170, electricity subsidy for 50 units ₹250). That ₹250 is inside the ₹1,250, not an extra LPG top-up.
• Credit date: Guidelines para 5.2.6 — transfer on the 12th of every month after bank details are validated; next working day if the 12th is a holiday. Confirm on your passbook. Older CM-portal text still says the 10th.
• Basic precondition: the person must be enrolled under the National Food Security Act (NFSA) as a beneficiary. Aadhaar-seeded ration card and a KYC-verified savings account in the nominee's name are mandatory.
• One household, one scheme: one Orunodoi benefit against one ration card.
• RTI: File under §6(1) to the PIO, Finance (Institutional Finance) Department, Dispur, and / or the District Commissioner of your district. Reply in 30 days under §7(1). First appeal §19(1). Transfer §6(3). Fee: Assam RTI fee table.

The Assam State Portal scheme page for Orunodoi was last updated 16 March 2024 and still prints the older ₹1,000 figure. For 3.0, use the Finance Department guidelines, not that stale page.

Step 1 — Start from the official Finance page

1. Open finance.assam.gov.in/portlets/orunodoi-30.
2. Download Orunodoi 3.0 Guidelines and the Notification-Orunodoi Helpdesk from that page. Confirm the live amount and helpdesk on those PDFs.
3. Ignore lookalike sites that are not .assam.gov.in or .gov.in.

Step 2 — Ask the district, then the helpdesk

Enrolment is not an always-open national-style web form. 3.0 uses district targets, DLMC lists and a Detailed Application Form digitised by the District Commissioner's office onto a unified DBT platform run by Finance (IF).

1. Take Aadhaar, NFSA ration card and the woman's passbook to the GP / VCDC / circle / District Commissioner counter that handles Orunodoi in your area.
2. Ask whether your ration-card number is on the approved and frozen beneficiary list.
3. Call the notified helpdesk 1800-202-6256 on working days 10:00 to 18:00 (notification dated 13 October 2025).
4. Guidelines para 5.5: each district is to notify an Orunodoi Grievance Redressal Officer not below Additional District Commissioner, and an Orunodoi Sahayak at block level.

Step 3 — Check the bank credit

1. Look for DBT on or after the 12th.
2. If the account is dormant or Aadhaar is not seeded, the credit fails even when the name is approved. Fix KYC at the bank first.

Guidelines 2.1: the household nominates an adult woman aged 18 or older. If the household has a Divyangjan person, that person is to be nominated irrespective of gender.

2.2 both must be met: permanent resident of Assam and presently residing in Assam; valid Aadhaar-seeded ration card; KYC-verified savings account matching scheme records.

2.3 Inclusion — any one of the listed criteria is enough, including (among others) widow / unmarried woman above 45 / divorced or deserted woman; transgender person; person with disability under the RPwD Act, 2016; AAY woman; household composite income less than ₹2 lakh a year. Income below ₹2 lakh is one inclusion path, not the only test.

2.4 Exclusion — the household is out if, at any stage, it includes (among others) sitting or former MPs / MLAs / CEMs; current PRI / ULB members; specified professionals (doctors, engineers, architects, CAs, bank officials, lawyers); government regular / pensioner / contractual employees including Anganwadi, mid-day meal, ASHA, Gaon Pradhan; IT-paying contractors, businessmen or shopkeepers; land holders other than small and marginal; owners of a motorised four-wheeler; or a person already getting the same or higher cash benefit under Orunodoi Plus or a similar state scheme. Composite household income above the Assam Food Security / NFSA limits also excludes.

If a member later gets a government job, the household becomes ineligible and is supposed to opt out.

1. Confirm NFSA status and bank KYC the same day.
2. Ask the district for the frozen list entry against your ration-card number.
3. Use helpdesk 1800-202-6256 and the ADC grievance officer.
4. Then file RTI for the list status, the last DBT attempt, and the pending officer.

Generate a filled draft with the AI RTI Drafter. Track 30 days with the Timeline Tracker. If the PIO is silent, use the First Appeal Builder.

To
The Public Information Officer
Finance (Institutional Finance) Department, Dispur
and / or
Office of the District Commissioner, District [NAME], Assam

Subject: Information under Section 6(1) of the RTI Act, 2005 — Orunodoi 3.0 [ration card / DAF number]

I am a citizen of India. Nominee name: [NAME]. NFSA ration-card number: [NUMBER]. Bank account last four digits: [xxxx]. District / GP or ULB: [PLACE].

1. Whether the above ration-card number is on the approved Orunodoi 3.0 beneficiary list for this district, and the date of approval or deletion.
2. Name, designation and sitting of the official with whom the file or DBT record is pending, and from which date.
3. For each of the last three calendar months: date and amount of DBT attempted or credited, or the recorded reason for non-credit.
4. Copy of any exclusion / objection / query note against this household.
5. If any part is held by another public authority, transfer that part under Section 6(3) and inform me.

Please provide the information within 30 days under Section 7(1). If denied, state the clause and inform me of the first-appeal right under Section 19(1).

[Name, address, mobile]

• Orunodoi is a state scheme. Nobody in a Union ministry can “approve” your Assam file.
• Never share an OTP. The helpdesk number above is the one printed on the Finance Department notification of 13 October 2025 — confirm it on that PDF if a poster shows a different number.
• Do not plan around rumoured extra amounts (₹1,500, ₹3,000, or a separate LPG ₹250 on top). The notified 3.0 cash benefit is ₹1,250, which already includes a ₹250 electricity-subsidy line.
• False claims can be recovered with interest (guidelines para 8).

₹1,250 per beneficiary per month by DBT, as per para 4.1 of the 19 September 2024 guidelines. The State may revise the figure. Confirm on the live Finance Department page.

A nominated adult woman aged 18 or older, into her KYC-verified account. If the household has a Divyangjan member, that person is nominated irrespective of gender. Only one benefit per ration card.

Yes. The 3.0 guidelines make NFSA enrolment the basic precondition. Aadhaar seeding of that ration card is required.

Household composite income less than ₹2 lakh a year is one inclusion criterion. Other inclusion paths exist (widow, AAY, disability, and the rest of para 2.3). Exclusion para 2.4 still applies.

Not as an always-open central-style form. 3.0 uses district targets, Gaon Sabha / Ward Sabha selection, DLMC approval and digitisation by the District Commissioner. Watch the district notice and the Finance page.

NFSA status, Aadhaar seeding, and whether the account is active. Then the helpdesk and the ADC grievance officer. Then RTI for the last DBT attempt.

No. It is funded and run by the Government of Assam, Finance (Institutional Finance) Department.

Start with the District Commissioner (district list and DBT) and the PIO, Finance (Institutional Finance) Department, Dispur. Ask for §6(3) transfer if the file sits elsewhere.

1. Keep Aadhaar, NFSA ration card and passbook together.
2. Call 1800-202-6256 if it is a working day between 10:00 and 18:00.
3. Check the last bank credit around the 12th.
4. If the name is missing or the credit failed, photograph the ration card and draft the RTI above.

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• Orunodoi 3.0, Finance Department, Government of Assam — finance.assam.gov.in/portlets/orunodoi-30
• Orunodoi 3.0 Guidelines PDF on that page — orunodoi_3.0_guidelines.pdf (₹1,250; NFSA; 12th of the month)
• Helpdesk notification 13 October 2025 — notification-orunodoi_helpdesk_no.pdf (launch 7 October 2025; 1800-202-6256)
• Chief Minister of Assam, schemes page — cm.assam.gov.in/schemes (scheme launched 2 October 2020; amount since increased to ₹1,250)
• Assam State Portal scheme page — assam.gov.in/scheme-page/154 (stale ₹1,000 text, last updated 16 March 2024)
• RTI Act, 2005 — §6(1), §6(3), §7(1), §19(1)

Reviewed on 20 August 2026 by Dr. Shrawan Kumar Pathak. Always confirm the live amount and list on the official Finance Department page.