The office of Welfare and Cess Commissioner working under the Ministry of labour and employment Government of India has invited applications from children of Bidi workers, labours working in iron, manganese, lime-stone and dolomite mines for extending financial assistance under ‘Financial Assistance For Education Scheme’.
The applications are invited for education session 2013-14 and the last date for submission of application is September 15, 2013. The financial assistance would be given only to students studying in Government recognized institutions. Under the scheme children of above mentioned workers studying in class 1 to 4 would be offered Rs 250 each (for uniform, slate, books).
The students of class 5th to 8th would be given Rs 940 and 500. Similarly students of class 9th would be given Rs 1140 and Rs 700. In the same way for students in graduation/three year diploma/post graduation, non-professional graduation courses, non-professional post graduate courses, 2-3 years diploma courses, BSc, BBA, DCA and PGDCA are given Rs 3,000 to each and students of professional degrees- BE, BTech, MBBS, BAMS, BUMS, BSc Agriculture, MSc and MBA are given Rs 8000 each.
The applications would have to be submitted through the institution student is studying and in case of non-governmental institutes, the recognition letter would have to be submitted. Under the scheme applications of only those students would be accepted who are not getting any scholarship under schemes run for scheduled caste, scheduled tribe, other backward caste or disabled students.
Further at least one parent (father or mother) of the student applying for financial assistance must be working for at least 6 month. The Bidi labourer’s monthly income must not exceed Rs 10,000 per month. The children of Bidi contractor and staff supervisor are not eligible for scheme. However there is no income limit for mines labourers. For more information interested persons may contact office of Welfare and Cess Commissioner, labour Welfare Organization, R-16, Anupam Nagar, Shankar Nagar, Raipur. The office could be also reached on telephone number 0771-2282409.