A Class 11 science student from the tribal district of Chhota Udepur is now studying without the weight of financial worry — and her story is at the centre of a post by Gujarat Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel on Tuesday, 13 October 2026, spotlighting the human dividend of the state's Namo Lakshmi Yojana.

The student, Raliya, is pursuing the science stream at the higher secondary level — a path her family had been anxious about financing. The Chief Minister's post, written in Gujarati, notes that the scheme has resolved the family's economic concerns around the cost of science education: 'રલીયા અને તેના પરિવારની સાયન્સ પ્રવાહમાં અભ્યાસના ખર્ચ અંગેની આર્થિક ચિંતા દૂર થઈ છે' ('Raliya and her family's financial anxiety about the cost of studying in the science stream has been removed').

What Namo Lakshmi Yojana does for girls in Gujarat

The Namo Lakshmi Yojana is a Gujarat government scheme designed to provide financial assistance to girl students at the secondary and higher secondary level, specifically to lower the economic barrier that pushes families — particularly in rural and tribal areas — to pull daughters out of school. Chhota Udepur, a predominantly tribal district in eastern Gujarat, is precisely the kind of geography the scheme is intended to serve: one where household income and proximity to quality schooling have historically constrained girls' academic trajectories.

CM Patel's post frames the scheme as more than a cash transfer. 'This scheme does not merely provide financial help,' he writes, 'but gives daughters the opportunity to move forward' — framing it as an instrument of social mobility rather than charity.

Modi's 25-year tenure and the women's empowerment thread

The post closes with a pointed reference to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, crediting him for the sensitivity that has defined 25 years of public service — counting his tenure as Gujarat Chief Minister from 2001 before his elevation to the Prime Ministership in 2014. Raliya's gratitude, per the post, is directed at Modi for creating this opportunity for daughters to 'illuminate their own name, their family's name, and society's name through education.'

The national scaffolding for such messaging is the Beti Bachao Beti Padhao campaign, launched in 2015, which set the template of linking girls' education, child sex ratio improvement, and women's empowerment under a single communication umbrella. Namo Lakshmi Yojana operates as a state-level instrument layered on top of that national framework, translating its goals into direct financial support for students in the science stream — a subject cluster often seen as the gateway to engineering and medicine careers.

The post is tagged under #SevaSankapAbhiyaan and #SevaKiKahani, an ongoing BJP communication drive built around stories of scheme beneficiaries, amplifying the party's welfare record through individual narratives ahead of the political cycle.