Scheme Milestones — 2026 Tracker
A running ledger of flagship central schemes crossing round-number anniversaries in 2025-26 and the fresh outlays layered on top. MUDRA, AMRUT, Stand-Up India and PMSMA turn ten; PMMSY turns five; Startup India adds a Rs 10,000 crore Fund of Funds 2.0; ten States and UTs are fully literate. Late August 2026 stacked up more: e-Shram at five years with 31.89 crore registered workers, UPI at ten, PM Jan Dhan Yojana at twelve, PM SVANidhi a year into its restructuring, and the PMFME Conclave 2026 awards in New Delhi. Other 2026 milestones: PLI exports past Rs 15.2 lakh crore, 117 tourism projects worth Rs 5,756.62 crore, a Rs 37,500 crore coal-gasification scheme, Meghalaya's Mission Golden Spice and two Tamil Nadu electronics clusters. The ledger also tracks Scheduled Caste welfare money: two Ambedkar Foundation schemes merged into a Centrally Sponsored Scheme, 38 ministries earmarking funds under DAPSC, and post-matric scholarship releases state by state.
- MUDRA
- PMMSY
- AMRUT
- Startup India
- Stand-Up India
- PMSMA
- ULLAS
- Fund of Funds
- coal gasification
- surface coal gasification scheme
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