Chhattisgarh Government Schemes

Conversion of short-term agricultural loans into medium-term loans for farmers hit by a natural calamity, funded through a state-supported stabilization fund at the State Cooperative Bank

Computerisation of every Primary Agricultural Credit Cooperative Society so member loan, deposit and interest records are maintained online and issued on demand

Per-animal daily feed grant of Rs 10 to Rs 35 plus staff honorarium for institutions running a Surabhi Gaudham

Purchase of cow dung at Rs 2 per kg, and cow urine at Rs 4 per litre, from registered sellers at village gauthans

Zero per cent interest on short-term agricultural loans up to Rs 5 lakh through cooperative societies, with concessional rates for fisheries, horticulture, lac and cattle rearing

Cash subsidy for tube well drilling plus pump installation, paid after the work is verified

Subsidised improved and certified seed, subsidy on seed production, and support for pulses, sugarcane and niger cultivation

Input assistance paid per quintal of paddy sold at a state procurement centre, over and above MSP

Skill upgradation training for agricultural workers, delivered free through the agriculture department's training machinery

Support for small irrigation structures for farmers without an assured water source; no separate budget line in current state outcome budgets

One-time managerial grant of up to Rs 10,000 to a loss-making Primitive Tribe Agricultural Credit Cooperative Society, not repeatable for three years

Per-acre input assistance paid in four instalments to registered growers of paddy, maize, sugarcane, pulses, oilseeds and other notified crops

Category-wise cash subsidy for borewell drilling plus motor-pump installation on the farmer's own field

Subsidised diesel or electric irrigation pump up to 5 HP, plus support for constructing an irrigation well

Rs 500 per SC/ST member deposited straight into the member's share capital account at a cooperative society

One-time waiver of short-term agricultural loans outstanding with cooperative societies as on 30 November 2018

A financing package of 50 per cent loan, 40 per cent state share capital and 10 per cent grant for a marketing cooperative society to start a new business

Annual state honour for one cooperative society or one individual for outstanding work in the cooperative sector, conferred as part of the Chhattisgarh Rajya Alankaran

State assistance of 80 to 90 per cent of the cost of a 200 MT warehouse-cum-office building for a cooperative society

A built work centre where self-help group women run income-generating activities, with canteen and creche support

Up to one year of free entrance-exam coaching with study material, plus hostel and mess or a Rs 5,000 monthly stipend

Announced support for women's skill training and self-employment; benefit amounts not notified

A registered construction worker card of the Chhattisgarh BOCW Welfare Board, which is the entry point to every board scheme from maternity aid to silicosis assistance

One-time maternity assistance of Rs 20,000 per delivery for up to 2 children

Annual scholarship of Rs 1,000 to Rs 10,000 for the first two children of registered construction workers

Housing assistance, paid in instalments against construction stages, for a registered construction worker

Monthly pension paid by DBT to a registered construction worker after superannuation at 60

Free coaching at selected institutes for competitive examinations, for the children of registered construction workers

Merit education assistance of Rs 5,000 to Rs 1,00,000, and up to Rs 50,00,000 for study abroad

One-time empowerment grant for the daughter of a registered construction worker, paid by DBT

Financial assistance of Rs 3,000 per person to buy a bicycle

A bicycle, or assistance towards buying one, for a registered construction worker

One-time payment of Rs 20,000 to registered construction workers aged 59 to 60

A sewing machine, or assistance towards buying one, for a registered woman construction worker

Sports incentive of Rs 1,000 to Rs 50,000 for children of registered construction workers

An official registration certificate for a shop or commercial establishment in Chhattisgarh, accepted by banks for a current account and by other departments as proof that the business legally exists

Rs 7,000 maternity assistance for a registered woman worker in two instalments, and Rs 3,000 paternity assistance for a registered male worker

Rs 2,500 per month unemployment allowance to eligible educated unemployed youth

Special Registration Card for the first two children of a deceased registered construction worker, keeping them eligible for the Welfare Board's scholarship and education schemes

Subsidised EWS and LIG flats in Nava Raipur Atal Nagar, with state grant of Rs 1 lakh per EWS unit and Rs 50,000 per LIG unit alongside central PMAY assistance

Rs 80,000 subsidy on an EWS house and Rs 40,000 on an LIG house built by the Chhattisgarh Housing Board, at prices held down by land supplied at Rs 1 per square foot

Home collection of documents and home delivery of government certificates after a single phone call

A municipal office inside your own ward for complaints and routine civic services

A built market platform (chabutara) to trade from, allotted for a nominal daily user fee, with 50 per cent of spaces reserved for women

Paid meter reading work at about Rs 12 per reading, giving supplementary income of roughly Rs 4,000 to Rs 6,000 a month

50 per cent rebate on the domestic electricity bill within the notified monthly unit slab

Free or flat-rate subsidised electricity on agricultural irrigation pump connections

Waiver of interest and surcharge on old electricity arrears, with special discounts reported up to 75 per cent

Solar irrigation pump of 2 HP, 3 HP or 5 HP at about 90-95 per cent subsidy

An official record of a birth registered under the Registration of Births and Deaths Act 1969, issued free of charge by Chhattisgarh e-District within a 7-working-day service guarantee

Cashless in-hospital treatment at empanelled government and private hospitals against a ration card

Free household tap water connection for below-poverty-line families

Free consultation, laboratory tests and medicines at a mobile clinic held on the weekly market day

Free doctor consultation, laboratory tests and medicines at a mobile medical camp held inside the slum

Cashless or reimbursed treatment for notified rare and serious illnesses beyond the normal DKBSSY and Ayushman Bharat limits

Cashless in-hospital treatment at empanelled government and private hospitals against a Chhattisgarh ration card

An official SC, ST or OBC caste certificate recognised by Chhattisgarh government departments, universities and recruitment boards

Rs 10,000 per year to each registered landless agricultural labour family

An official Chhattisgarh residence certificate accepted by CGPSC, CG Vyapam, state universities and Chhattisgarh government departments as proof of residence in the state

A Tehsildar-signed Income and Asset Certificate proving EWS status, used to claim the 10 per cent EWS quota in central and Chhattisgarh government recruitment and college admissions

A Tehsildar-signed, digitally signed statement of annual family income accepted across Chhattisgarh government departments

Rs 10,000 per year per landless agricultural labour family, paid by DBT

An official Chhattisgarh record of rights (B-1) and crop/field register (P-II) showing the bhu-swami, khasra numbers, area, land type and any charge recorded on the holding

A revenue-court record of who the surviving heirs of a deceased person are, accepted by Chhattisgarh government departments, pension branches and employers for releasing dues and for correcting the land record

An official Other Backward Classes certificate for Chhattisgarh, used for reserved seats, reserved posts and state welfare schemes

An updated B-1 (khatauni) and P-II record of rights in Chhattisgarh showing you as the recorded bhumiswami of the khasra

Rs 7,000 per year to landless rural labour families (scheme now discontinued)

An official police character certificate issued by Chhattisgarh Police after verification by your local police station, accepted for jobs, passport, visa, licence and tender purposes

Free footwear — shoes for male tendu leaf collectors, sandals for female collectors

Free or subsidised saplings and a digital certificate for planting a tree in your mother's name

Free saplings and planting support up to 5 acres; 50 per cent support beyond 5 acres

Subsidised rice, free iodised salt and subsidised gram every month through a fair price shop, on a near-universal ration card

2 kg of chana per family per month at Rs 5 per kg through the fair price shop

An official Chhattisgarh ration card in the Antyodaya, priority or general (APL) category, in the name of the eldest woman of the family, entitling the household to subsidised foodgrain at its fair price shop

Bank loan for a new enterprise with state interest support and subsidy on part of the sanctioned amount

Bank loan for a new manufacturing, service or trading unit with margin money grant, interest subsidy and guarantee fee support

Seed fund up to Rs 10 lakh, capital subsidy up to Rs 35 lakh, patent subsidy up to Rs 20 lakh and 15 more incentives

One-time incentive assistance on admission to a premier national institution

Saturation delivery of individual welfare schemes and village-level facilities in Naxal-affected villages

Rs 500 per month paid by DBT to SECC-listed senior citizens and widowed or deserted women

Monthly pension of Rs 500 for severely disabled BPL persons aged 18 to 79

Monthly pension of Rs 500 for BPL widows aged 40 to 79 years

Free pilgrimage by special train including travel, food, lodging, security and medical care

One-time lump sum of Rs 20,000 to the bereaved BPL family

Documentary proof of senior-citizen status in Chhattisgarh, built from a Sewa Setu residence certificate plus an age document, used to access Social Welfare Department old-age programmes and age-based concessions

Rs 500 per month for BPL persons with disabilities and dwarf persons

Recognition of widow or deserted status by the Chhattisgarh Social Welfare Department, built from the husband's death certificate, the BPL listing and the panchayat or urban body recommendation

Rs 50,000 monthly stipend, full tuition waiver and a free laptop during a two-year M.Tech with government placement

One free smartphone with bundled connectivity, distributed once through the gram panchayat, ward or college

The legal proof of a person's death, date and place under the Registration of Births and Deaths Act 1969, issued digitally signed and needed for insurance, pension, mutation and bank claims

Solar technical training, enterprise financing and vendor registration for rural SHG women

An official Marriage Registration Certificate issued by the Urban Administration and Development Department of Chhattisgarh for Rs 30 within a published 15-working-day service limit, accepted by banks, the passport office and foreign missions

Rs 1,20,000 to Rs 1,30,000 for building a pucca house, plus 90 to 95 days of MGNREGA wage employment for the construction

House-construction assistance of Rs 1.20 lakh to Rs 1.30 lakh in instalments, plus MGNREGA labour days and toilet assistance

Rs 1.20 lakh to Rs 1.30 lakh for a 25 square metre pucca house, plus 90 to 95 MGNREGA wage days and Rs 12,000 for a toilet

An additional incentive amount paid at griha pravesh to beneficiaries who complete their house on time

Village-level water conservation, cattle shelters (gauthans), organic compost and kitchen garden support delivered through the gram panchayat

Municipal permission to carry on a named trade at a named premises inside a Chhattisgarh Nagar Palik Nigam, Nagar Palika Parishad or Nagar Panchayat area

An official record from the Chhattisgarh Registration and Stamps wing of the documents registered against a property in a chosen period, used by banks, buyers and advocates to check for mortgages and charges

Rs 15,000 per year promised to women heads of households — announced as an election commitment, never implemented

Monthly scholarship of Rs 500 (classes 1-8) or Rs 1,000 (classes 9-12) plus free, priority admission to Swami Atmanand schools

Collateral-free self-employment loan of up to Rs 25,000 for Mahtari Vandan beneficiaries

Rs 1,000 per month paid by DBT into the woman's own bank account

Additional nutritious food for pregnant and lactating Pahari Korwa mothers and their infants

Marriage assistance per girl, paid partly in kind and partly as a bank draft, through a mass marriage ceremony

Free daily hot cooked nutritious meal plus eggs, jaggery and groundnut laddu through the anganwadi centre

Assurance certificate of Rs 1,50,000 on the birth of a girl child in a BPL family, payable on her completing 18 years

Up to Rs 30,000 for self-employment, plus skill training and education support for destitute women

State funding for sports infrastructure, traditional games and athlete participation, routed through district sports offices and recognised sports bodies

Corridor-style infrastructure development at five Chhattisgarh Shakti Peeth temples

Free rail travel, food, lodging and local transport for a group pilgrimage to Ayodhya

Announced as Rs 500 subsidy per LPG cylinder refill for women — never notified or paid

Per-kilometre operating subsidy and up to three years of motor vehicle tax exemption for rural bus operators

Financial support towards self-arranged accommodation for meritorious students denied a government hostel seat

Full MBA fee paid by the state plus Rs 50,000 per month stipend for two years

Central and state funded upgradation of 341 selected Chhattisgarh government schools into model PM SHRI schools

One free bicycle for an eligible girl student on entering class 9

Free QR-code bus pass for the home-to-college journey — announced in October 2023, discontinued from December 2023

A registered sale deed (vikray patra) that legally transfers ownership of immovable property in Chhattisgarh and becomes the basis for namantaran in the Bhuiyan land record

Course fees plus monthly maintenance allowance for SC, ST and OBC students studying outside Chhattisgarh

Fully free group pilgrimage to Ayodhya by special train, with travel, food, lodging and local transport borne by the state