Assam Government Schemes
Assam state government schemes — Sewa Setu, scholarship and welfare schemes, with eligibility, documents and how to apply.
110 schemes across 23 departments · updated 2026
Education Department
New High Schools up to Class X inside tea garden areas, with free admission at the school
View guide →A merit award for high-scoring Assam board students — historically a free laptop, now delivered as the Anundoram Borooah Cash Award Scheme (ARBAS)
View guide →Rs 1,000 book grant by DBT, plus mentoring, tablets and residential exposure visits
View guide →Monthly financial assistance of Rs 25,000 to research scholars and Rs 40,000 to Divyang research scholars
View guide →Statewide school grading from A+ to D, followed by remedial teaching and infrastructure action
View guide →Rs 1,000, Rs 1,250 or Rs 2,500 per month for up to 10 months a year, by DBT
View guide →One free scooty per selected girl student, with registration and insurance borne by the state and a helmet provided free
View guide →Structured extracurricular and co-curricular activity programme across seven streams in selected schools
View guide →A single digital registry and attendance, leave and transfer system for all Assam government schools
View guide →Health and Family Welfare Department
Cashless treatment at empanelled hospitals and medical reimbursement at CGHS rates for Assam government employees, contractual staff and pensioners
View guide →Up to Rs 3,00,000 in medical financial assistance for life-threatening illness and injury
View guide →Cashless treatment up to Rs 2 lakh per family per year for 437 critical illnesses
View guide →A legally valid Assam birth certificate accepted as single proof of date of birth for school admission, passport, Aadhaar, driving licence and government employment
View guide →One-time financial assistance of Rs 2.5 lakh to a widow whose husband died of Covid-19
View guide →Free CT scan, X-ray and laboratory diagnostic tests for patients at government health facilities in Assam
View guide →A permanent, compulsory state record of a death in Assam, accepted by banks, insurers, the revenue circle office for mutation and the courts for succession
View guide →One-time grant of up to Rs 3,00,000 for cancer and other serious-illness treatment costs
View guide →Free cleft lip and cleft palate surgery with pre-surgical assessment, anaesthesia, hospital stay and follow-up care at no cost to the family
View guide →Free doorstep screening, spot laboratory tests and medicines for chronic and minor illnesses through a Mobile Health Unit that visits your village on a fixed monthly calendar
View guide →Full or part cost of specialised paediatric treatment including transplants, cochlear implants and cancer care
View guide →Rs 1 lakh one-time financial assistance after kidney transplantation
View guide →Free door-to-door health screening, Mobile Medical Unit diagnostics and referral for tea garden families
View guide →Rs 15,000 cash benefit in four instalments, paid by DBT to the pregnant woman's bank account
View guide →Food, Civil Supplies and Consumer Affairs Department
Rs 50,000 government grant to set up a mobile e-rickshaw shop selling essential commodities
View guide →An Antyodaya Anna Yojana or Priority Household ration card entitling the family to subsidised foodgrain from a fair price shop in Assam under the National Food Security Act 2013
View guide →Finance Department
One-time subsidy of up to Rs 50,000 credited into the student's education loan account
View guide →One-time home loan subsidy of Rs 1 lakh to Rs 2.5 lakh, credited to the borrower's loan account
View guide →3.5% interest subvention on an SBI housing loan of up to Rs 15 lakh, with no processing fee
View guide →3.5 per cent interest subvention on an SBI housing loan of up to Rs 15 lakh, with no processing fee
View guide →Education loan of Rs 5 lakh to Rs 10 lakh at an effective 4 per cent interest after state subvention, with no collateral up to Rs 10 lakh
View guide →One-time financial assistance of Rs 5,000 per eligible tea garden worker or employee
View guide →One-time incentive or relief of up to Rs 25,000, or the outstanding loan balance, whichever is lower
View guide →Rs 1,250 per month by DBT to the nominated woman of the household
View guide →Sports, Youth and Cultural Activities Department
One-time financial assistance for medical treatment, accidents, death and education of dependents, with disease-wise ceilings fixed by the Advisory Board
View guide →Loans, subsidies and grants for production of Assamese films, plus artiste welfare assistance
View guide →Monthly pension for artists aged 60 and above, monthly family pension for the spouse of a deceased artist, and one-time financial assistance to families of deceased artists
View guide →One-time grant of Rs 50,000 to a selected artiste or technician
View guide →Administrative Reforms and Training Department
Industries and Mines Department
Stall rent, travel fare and daily allowance for micro and small enterprises to exhibit at trade fairs
View guide →One-time grant of Rs 25,000 for machinery or raw materials
View guide →Interest subsidy at 3 per cent on working capital loan for up to 10 years from commencement of commercial production
View guide →Rs 2 lakh or Rs 5 lakh — 50% grant and 50% interest-free government loan
View guide →Fiscal incentive released against a bank or financial institution loan taken by an eligible industrial unit in Assam
View guide →Reimbursement of a share of freight cost on raw materials brought in and finished goods moved out, for units registered before 22 November 2016
View guide →Grant equal to 100 per cent of the entrepreneur's margin contribution against a bank term loan
View guide →Bank loan of up to Rs 10 lakh with 5 per cent per year interest subvention paid by the Government of Assam
View guide →Employment generation subsidy computed at Rs 10,000 per eligible permanent employee of an Assam industrial unit
View guide →Rs 50,000 seed capital per individual, or Rs 50,000 per head for a group of up to 20 members
View guide →Rs 7 per kg orthodox and specialty tea production subsidy, 3% per annum interest subvention on working capital, 25% subsidy on plant and machinery up to Rs 30 lakh, and an agricultural income tax holiday
View guide →Labour, Skill Development and Employment Department
Rs 50,000 on natural death and Rs 3,00,000 on accidental death of a registered construction worker
View guide →Rs 2,000 per month plus Rs 100 per completed year of service, with one-time ex-gratia up to Rs 3,00,000
View guide →Class-wise education grant from Rs 1,500 to Rs 20,000 a year, with full cost met for professional courses
View guide →Rs 5,000 lump sum towards funeral expenses of a registered construction worker
View guide →Rs 2,000 per month plus Rs 100 for each completed year of registered service, from age 60
View guide →Rs 5,000 once in a year towards an annual health check-up at any hospital
View guide →Rs 25,000 for the marriage of a registered worker's child, for up to two children
View guide →Rs 20,000 per delivery to a registered woman construction worker, allowed twice
View guide →Rs 1,000 a day for the first 5 hospitalised days, Rs 200 a day thereafter, capped at Rs 20,000
View guide →Financial support released in tranches of Rs 50,000 against language certification, visa and post-placement settlement, plus subsidised Japanese language training
View guide →Free treatment at 150 supported tea garden hospitals, plus Rs 2 lakh a year of cashless critical-illness cover under Atal Amrit Abhiyan
View guide →One-time assistance of Rs 25,000 for a research scholar, Rs 40,000 for a Divyang research scholar
View guide →Rs 2,500 per month for one year for fresh graduates; one-time grants for research scholars and Divyang candidates
View guide →Financial assistance in three components, from up to Rs 7,000 with no contribution to Rs 40,000-Rs 75,000 with 20 per cent beneficiary contribution
View guide →An ABOCWWB identity card, valid two years, that opens the Board's 13 welfare schemes — pension, family and disability pension, death and funeral benefit, medical, maternity, marriage, skill training, cash awards and transit shelters
View guide →A combined trade licence and registration of establishment under the Assam Shops and Establishment Act 1971, recording a shop or commercial establishment with the state labour department
View guide →Free vocational training with a Rs 500 monthly stipend, hostels, child care centres, patient rest houses and sports assistance for tea garden families
View guide →One-time cash assistance of Rs 5,000 credited to the worker's bank account
View guide →Home Department
An official Assam Police certificate recording that police records show nothing adverse against you at your declared address, used for jobs, passport, visa and licence purposes
View guide →Free arrangement and coordination for bringing the body of an Assam resident who died outside the state back home
View guide →Agriculture, Farmers Welfare and Co-operation Department
Free or nominally priced training and shared canning facilities for making value-added fruit and vegetable products
View guide →One-time partial write-off of crop loan dues announced in 2018-19; no open waiver window is currently published
View guide →A subsidised set of farm tools and implements for each selected small or marginal farmer family
View guide →Rs 5 per litre incentive on milk poured through a registered Dairy Cooperative Society, capped at 900 litres per month
View guide →70 per cent subsidy up to Rs 5.5 lakh on a tractor with implements for a group of 8 to 10 farmers
View guide →Home and Political Department
Revenue Department
An official statement from the Assam registration records showing whether any registered mortgage, sale, lease or attachment exists on a specific plot for the period searched
View guide →An Income and Asset Certificate proving Economically Weaker Section status, used to claim the 10% EWS reservation in central and Assam government recruitment, in APSC and SLPRB examinations and in educational admissions
View guide →Rs 4 lakh SDRF ex-gratia for a disaster death, plus Rs 5 lakh from the Chief Minister's Relief Fund under the enhanced 2026 flood package
View guide →A certificate of annual family income notified under the Assam Right to Public Services Act, delivered through Sewa Setu with a right of appeal if it is delayed
View guide →An official record of land ownership, dag and patta numbers, area, class of land and revenue payable for a plot in Assam, accepted by banks, courts, registration offices and government departments
View guide →An official record of who the surviving heirs of a deceased person are, accepted by Assam government offices for pension, gratuity, provident fund, ex-gratia and inheritance mutation claims
View guide →A legally valid Assam marriage certificate signed by the Marriage Officer, accepted for passports, spouse visas, bank and insurance nominations and name change
View guide →Land pattas, settlement of government land, and free everyday land record services
View guide →Your name entered in the Jamabandi, Assam's Record of Rights, as the pattadar of the dag, with land revenue thereafter charged to you
View guide →A sale deed registered under the Registration Act 1908 that gives you legally recognised title to the property and a permanent entry in the Assam registration records
View guide →Directorate of Information and Public Relations
One-time medical financial assistance of up to Rs 1,00,000, paid from the interest on a Rs 3 crore corpus fund
View guide →One-time grant of Rs 50,000 to a selected senior journalist, awarded in an annual round
View guide →Pension and Public Grievances Department
Panchayat and Rural Development Department
Monthly old-age pension credited to the beneficiary's bank account on the first day of each month
View guide →Interest-free loan of up to Rs 6.50 lakh from the Community Investment Fund to an SHG member to buy and operate a rural transport vehicle
View guide →Rs 10,000 seed capital in year 1, Rs 25,000 in year 2 (Rs 12,500 subsidy + Rs 12,500 bank loan) and Rs 50,000 in year 3
View guide →A scooter with helmet plus Rs 500 a month towards fuel for serving women community cadres
View guide →Rs 250 per month credited by DBT on the first day of each month to the pensioner's own bank account
View guide →Directorate of Sericulture
Tribal Development Department
Model village development at Rs 500 lakh per village, Article 275(1) infrastructure grants, scholarships and skill training for plain tribes
View guide →Skill training, vocational courses and family-oriented income-generating assistance for ST families, plus access to CMAAA and Boneej grants
View guide →General Administration Department
An official Assam government certificate proving you are 60 or above and a permanent resident of Assam, used to claim senior-citizen concessions and to enrol in old-age welfare schemes
View guide →Official District Administration proof of surviving-family status, accepted by Assam departments processing widow pension and welfare claims
View guide →Textiles and Sericulture Department
Tourism Department
Urban Development and Housing Department
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Social Justice and Empowerment Department
A one-time grant equal to the cost of 10 grams of gold, paid to the bride for her marriage
View guide →An official SC, ST or OBC/MOBC certificate from the Assam district administration, accepted for reservation in state education, jobs and welfare schemes
View guide →A fixed deposit of roughly Rs 7.67 lakh per child plus Rs 3,500 a month from the interest until the child turns 24
View guide →A digitally issued Backward Classes (OBC/MOBC) certificate and a separate Non-Creamy-Layer certificate, downloaded from the ARTPS portal and used for reserved seats and posts in Assam
View guide →One-time grant of up to Rs 3 lakh per organisation for tribal cultural promotion work
View guide →Non-refundable compulsory course fees plus a graded academic or maintenance allowance for SC and ST students studying above Class 10
View guide →Umbrella of 4 higher-education components — Top Class Education, Free Coaching, National Overseas Scholarship and National Fellowship for SC students
View guide →Monthly social security pension for the elderly, widows and persons with disabilities in Assam, credited by direct benefit transfer
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