Krishi Shramik Dakshata Unnayan Yojana (Chhattisgarh)

What is Krishi Shramik Dakshata Unnayan Yojana?

Krishi Shramik Dakshata Unnayan Yojana; कृषि श्रमिकों का दक्षता उन्नयन: is a state-funded scheme of the Chhattisgarh Department of Agriculture Development, Farmer Welfare and Biotechnology. It appears as state-funded scheme number 4 on the department's own state schemes page at agriportal.cg.nic.in, where the original guideline and a later amendment are both published.

The scheme's premise is unusual among the department's state schemes, and worth stating plainly. Almost every other state-funded agriculture scheme in Chhattisgarh attaches its benefit to land, a tube well on a recorded holding, a pump on a farmer's field, seed measured against sowing area. Krishi Shramik Dakshata Unnayan Yojana instead attaches its benefit to labour: it funds the upgradation of the skills of the people who actually carry out farm operations, whether or not they own the land they work on. In a state where a large share of the rural workforce is landless or near-landless, that distinction is the whole point of the scheme.

Chhattisgarh's agriculture has been mechanising steadily: paddy transplanters, rotavators, harvesters and power tillers all carry subsidy under other departmental schemes — and better-trained farm labour is the complement to that equipment. Skill upgradation is what makes a transplanter, a sprayer or a threshing machine deliver its rated output rather than sit idle.

Is the scheme currently funded?

The honest answer, and the one a reader needs before spending a day at a block office, is that Krishi Shramik Dakshata Unnayan Yojana does not appear as a separate budget line in the Chhattisgarh agriculture department's outcome budgets for 2023-24, 2024-25, 2025-26 or 2026-27. Those documents, published by the state Finance Department, list each state-funded agriculture scheme with its provision and physical target for the year. Krishak Samagra Vikas Yojana, Micro-minor Irrigation Yojana, Shakambhari Yojana, Kisan Samriddhi Yojana, Fasal Pradarshan Yojana, Jaivik Kheti Mission and several central schemes all appear. This one does not.

The scheme is therefore best understood as a legacy guideline that remains published for reference, while the department's actual training activity now runs inside its funded programmes. If you need the original terms. The number of training days, the batch size or any allowance that was payable; ask your block agriculture office, because the guideline PDFs on the portal are scanned images whose text cannot be read by search engines or copied.

Where does Chhattisgarh train farm workers now?

Training in the Chhattisgarh agriculture department currently sits inside its funded programme lines. The 2024-25 outcome budget records these training deliverables:

Alongside them, the Agricultural Technology Management Agency (ATMA) operates in every district of Chhattisgarh as the standing extension and training structure, and Krishi Vigyan Kendras run practical skill courses. The department also gives awards to advanced farmers under ATMA. A worker looking for skill training today should be routed to one of these, not to a scheme name that no longer carries money.

Who was eligible, and who is not eligible now?

Under its original design, Krishi Shramik Dakshata Unnayan Yojana covered:

• Agricultural workers and farm labourers in Chhattisgarh, including landless workers who depend on farm employment.
• Workers identified through the village-level machinery of the agriculture department, working with the gram panchayat.
• Priority, as in every beneficiary-oriented Chhattisgarh agriculture scheme, for Scheduled Caste, Scheduled Tribe and women participants.

You cannot apply today under this scheme name, in the plain sense that there is no open window, no form and no budget provision. Nobody, landed or landless, can register a claim against it. People resident outside Chhattisgarh are not eligible for the department's state-funded training in any case, since the programmes are financed from the state budget.

A separate point that trips up readers: agricultural labourers in Chhattisgarh are also served by the Labour Department and by welfare schemes for landless farm workers, which are distinct from anything the agriculture department runs. If you are looking for cash assistance rather than training, that is the department to approach.

How to apply for farm skill training in Chhattisgarh

1. Go to your Rural Agriculture Extension Officer or the block agriculture office and say what skill you want, machine operation, nursery raising, organic input preparation, seed production or plant protection.
2. Ask the office to record your name for the next batch under whichever programme is running, most commonly ATMA or the Jaivik Kheti Mission. Batches are scheduled by the district, so timing depends on the district plan.
3. Carry your Aadhaar and a residence proof when the batch is called, and a caste certificate if the batch reserves seats.
4. Ask directly whether any travel or attendance allowance is payable for that specific programme, and give a bank passbook copy if it is. Do not assume an allowance. It varies by programme.
5. Collect the certificate at the end of the training, since it is what a custom hiring centre or a farm machinery bank will ask for when hiring an operator.

Grievance and help

Take questions about Krishi Shramik Dakshata Unnayan Yojana, and about which training programme is open this year, to your Rural Agriculture Extension Officer, then to the Senior Agriculture Development Officer at block level, and then to the Deputy Director of Agriculture at the district collectorate. The district ATMA cell is the right office for training schedules specifically. The Directorate of Agriculture at Raipur, under the Department of Agriculture Development, Farmer Welfare and Biotechnology, is the final departmental authority and publishes the state-funded scheme guidelines at agriportal.cg.nic.in.

Departmental training is free. No fee is payable to any officer, trainer or agent for a seat in a government training batch.