Samanya Nalkoop Yojana (General Tubewell Scheme), Chhattisgarh

What is Samanya Nalkoop Yojana?

Samanya Nalkoop Yojana is the general tube well subsidy window of the Chhattisgarh Department of Agriculture Development, Farmer Welfare and Biotechnology, operated through the Directorate of Agriculture at Raipur. On the department's own Agri-Subsidy system at agriportal.cg.nic.in/agrisubsidy the scheme is listed as "सामान्य नलकूप / आदि.वि.प्रधि. योजना". The general tube well scheme combined with the tribal development authority (आदिवासी विकास प्राधिकरण) component. Farmers usually call it simply the nalkoop khanan yojana, the tube well drilling scheme.

Samanya Nalkoop Yojana pays a cash subsidy to a farmer who drills a borewell on his or her own field and installs a motor pump on it. The purpose is direct: Chhattisgarh's cropped area is dominated by a single rain-fed kharif paddy crop, and an individual groundwater source is the fastest way for a smallholder to add a rabi crop and raise cropping intensity.

The pairing of a general component with a tribal development authority component inside one scheme name matters in practice. It means the same scheme carries two funding streams. The general state provision and the sub-plan money earmarked for Scheduled Tribe farmers, which is why the subsidy ceiling differs so sharply by category.

How much subsidy does Samanya Nalkoop Yojana pay?

The category-wise ceilings widely reported for the Chhattisgarh tube well subsidy, covering drilling plus pump installation together, are:

Within that combined ceiling the amount is reported to split roughly as Rs 18,000 drilling and Rs 25,000 pump for SC and ST farmers, Rs 15,000 and Rs 20,000 for OBC farmers, and Rs 10,000 and Rs 15,000 for general category farmers. Every figure is applied as "the fixed rate or the actual cost, whichever is less", the standard formula in Chhattisgarh agriculture subsidy orders.

These rates come from scheme trackers that follow the Directorate of Agriculture's circulars, because the department's own instruction sheet on the Agri-Subsidy portal (सामान्य नलकूप योजना) is a scanned document. Treat them as indicative and confirm the running year's unit cost with your Senior Agriculture Development Officer before committing to a driller.

Who is eligible for Samanya Nalkoop Yojana?

You can apply if:

• You are a permanent resident of Chhattisgarh.
• You own cultivable land recorded in your own name, with the block office's minimum area for the scheme, commonly reported as 1 hectare: met.
• The proposed site stands at least the notified distance, reported as 300 metres, from any existing tube well or handpump.
• You have not already taken a tube well, well or pump under another government irrigation scheme.
• You are willing to build the recharge structure that the department requires around a subsidised tube well.

Farmers of every category can apply, but Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe farmers receive the highest ceiling, and Chhattisgarh's agriculture schemes direct that small and marginal farmers be served first where the block target is short. Selection is routed through the three-tier panchayat system — gram panchayat, janpad panchayat and zila panchayat, the same route used for other beneficiary-oriented schemes of the department.

You are not eligible if:

• You cultivate land you do not own and have no recorded holding, which rules out landless agricultural labourers and unrecorded sharecroppers.
• You have already received a subsidised tube well or well on the same holding.
• Your site fails the spacing test against a neighbouring bore or handpump.
• You live outside Chhattisgarh. This is a state-financed scheme.
• You start drilling before your case is sanctioned and the site inspected, since there is then no verifiable approval trail.

What documents are required?

How to apply for Samanya Nalkoop Yojana

1. Meet your Rural Agriculture Extension Officer in the village cluster, or go directly to the block agriculture office, and register demand under the general tube well scheme for the running financial year.
2. Submit your documents; Aadhaar, B-1 and Khasra, bank passbook copy, residence proof, and a caste certificate if you are claiming the SC, ST or OBC rate.
3. Let the block office record the demand in the Agri-Subsidy MIS at agriportal.cg.nic.in/agrisubsidy, where it is counted against the block's physical target for the year.
4. Get the site inspected. Departmental staff confirm the holding, the proposed location and the spacing from existing water sources.
5. Wait for panchayat approval of the beneficiary list and for the written sanction from the block.
6. Have the borewell drilled by a listed driller, checking the district-wise valid-driller list on the Agri-Subsidy portal first, and keep the bill.
7. Install the pump on a successful bore and retain the invoice.
8. File the completion demand with the Senior Agriculture Development Officer, attaching the bills.
9. Receive the subsidy in your bank account after departmental staff verify the tube well and pump physically on site.

How to check the position of your case

Samanya Nalkoop Yojana has no individual farmer login, so status is checked in two ways:

• At the block agriculture office, which holds the demand register and the sanction list for your gram panchayat.
• On the Agri-Subsidy portal, using the scheme-wise subsidy demand sheet (अनुदान मांग पत्रक) at agriportal.cg.nic.in/agrisubsidy/RptDemaadSheet.aspx. Select your district, choose "सामान्य नलकूप / आदि.वि.प्रधि. योजना" and the financial year, and you can see how much of the district's provision has been committed. The portal also publishes block-wise and district-wise application counts and district-wise achievement reports.

Why Samanya Nalkoop Yojana claims get rejected

• The block target for the year is already full, which is the single most common outcome and has nothing to do with the quality of your papers.
• Land record mismatch, the Khasra shown does not match the drilling site, or the applicant is not the recorded holder.
• Spacing rule failure against a nearby tube well or handpump.
• Caste certificate missing where the higher category ceiling was claimed, which either drops the case to the general rate or fails it.
• Driller not on the department's valid list, so the drilling bill is not accepted.
• Drilling done before sanction and site inspection.
• Duplicate benefit. A tube well or well already taken on the same holding under another scheme.
• Bank account not seeded with Aadhaar, which blocks the transfer even after the case is approved.

Grievance and help

Take the first complaint to your Rural Agriculture Extension Officer, then to the Senior Agriculture Development Officer at the block, and then to the Deputy Director of Agriculture at the district. The Agri-Subsidy portal carries a problem and suggestion status page (समस्या/सुझाव की स्थिति) for tracking complaints logged through departmental staff, and the Directorate of Agriculture at Raipur is the final departmental authority for the scheme.

Applying under Samanya Nalkoop Yojana is free. No fee is payable to any officer, agent or driller for registration or for "getting a name into the list", and the subsidy is credited only to the beneficiary's own bank account.