In the year 2025, Yogi government gave new heights to the welfare of backward classes. 12.76 lakh students benefited from scholarship, 72 thousand daughters got help through marriage grant and 22 thousand youth got digital training.
Lucknow. In the year 2025, under the leadership of Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, the Uttar Pradesh government has made remarkable achievements in the field of backward class welfare. Government schemes in all three areas – education, social security and digital empowerment – have become more effective than before. Official figures of the Backward Class Welfare Department show that the government’s policies are reaching the last person of the society directly. The focus of the Yogi government has not been limited to just running schemes, but has been to empower the weaker sections through education, respect and skills.
Education gets priority, new record in scholarship distribution
In the year 2025-26, the government provided scholarships on a large scale to connect backward class students with education. Under Purva Dasham Scholarship Scheme, assistance of Rs 147.75 crore was given to 6,90,349 students. Whereas 5,85,954 students got a benefit of Rs 175.54 crore from the post-10th scholarship scheme.
Thus, in the year 2025, direct assistance of Rs 323.29 crore was given to a total of 12,76,303 students. In the last nine years, Yogi government has provided scholarships worth Rs 13,858.62 crore to a total of 2 crore 20 lakh 29 thousand 760 students.
Respect and security for daughters through marriage grant scheme
The social sensitivity of Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath is clearly visible through the marriage grant scheme. In the year 2025-26 (till 23 December 2025), a grant of Rs 144.59 crore was given to 72,296 daughters of backward classes.
The scope of this scheme has continuously increased in the previous years also. In 2019-20 and 2024-25, assistance of Rs 200-200 crore was given to one lakh daughters each. A total grant of Rs 1,295.72 crore was provided to 6,47,863 beneficiaries in nine years. The scheme is for Other Backward Class families in urban and rural areas with annual income up to Rs 1 lakh. Under the scheme, the minimum age of a girl is fixed at 18 years and that of a boy is 21 years.
Initiative to make youth self-reliant through digital empowerment
The priority of the Yogi government has been to make the youth employment-oriented and self-reliant. In the year 2025-26 (till 23 December 2025), a total of 22,392 youth including 18,159 boys and 4,233 girls were given training under the Computer Training Scheme. Rs 19.18 crore was spent on this.
While 9,431 youth got training in the year 2017-18, this number increased to 29,769 in 2024-25. A total of 1,62,046 youth were given digital training in the last nine years at a cost of Rs 154.56 crore.
Technical skills enhanced through O-level and CCC training
The number of people receiving O-level certificate training under the digital training scheme was 1,01,139 and the number of CCC certificate trainees was 60,907. This training was given through NIELIT recognized institutions of the Government of India. The benefit of the scheme was given to intermediate pass unemployed boys and girls belonging to other backward classes, whose parents’ annual income is up to Rs 1 lakh.
DBT increased transparency, curbed corruption
In all the backward class welfare schemes, payments were made to the beneficiaries through DBT (Direct Benefit Transfer). This increased transparency and eliminated possibilities of corruption. This result-oriented policy of Yogi government is taking Uttar Pradesh forward in the direction of social justice and inclusive development.