Scheme to Provide Stipend to the Persons With Disabilities of the State for Poultry Training

What is the poultry training stipend scheme for persons with disabilities?

Scheme to Provide Stipend to the Persons With Disabilities of the State for Poultry Training is a small, sharply targeted scheme of the Agriculture, Farmers Welfare and Co-operation Department, Government of Gujarat, run through the Directorate of Animal Husbandry and delivered on the iKhedut portal. The scheme pays a stipend of Rs 2,000 to a person with a physical disability who attends a 7-day poultry rearing training conducted by the department's Intensive Poultry Development Unit (IPDU).

The scheme is best understood as a livelihood entry point rather than a welfare payment. Backyard poultry is one of the few enterprises that works well for a person with limited mobility. The birds are small and light, the daily routine is predictable, the work happens within a few metres of the house, and the capital needed is measured in thousands rather than lakhs. What is usually missing is not willingness but knowledge, brooding temperature, feed schedule, vaccination against Ranikhet disease, litter management, and how to sell without being squeezed by a middleman. A structured week of training from a government poultry unit closes exactly that gap.

The stipend exists because attendance has a cost. Seven days away from home means seven days of travel and food, and for a daily-wage earner it also means seven days of lost income. Rs 2,000 makes attending realistic instead of theoretical.

Key features

• Run by the Directorate of Animal Husbandry, Gujarat.
• Rs 2,000 stipend per beneficiary.
• 7-day training in poultry rearing at an Intensive Poultry Development Unit.
• Restricted to persons with physical disabilities holding a valid PH identity card.
• Applied online on iKhedut, free of charge.

What exactly do you get?

Be clear about the boundary. The published benefit under this scheme is the stipend and the training seat, and nothing more. Birds, a shed, feed and equipment are not part of this component. That is not a gap in the design. The Directorate of Animal Husbandry runs separate components on iKhedut for poultry units, cattlesheds, feed support and equipment, and a beneficiary who has completed this training is in a much better position to apply for one of them than someone starting cold. Treat the training as step one of a two-step route into a poultry livelihood.

The Rs 2,000 is a single payment tied to the training, not a monthly allowance, and the number is per beneficiary rather than per household.

Who is eligible for the poultry training stipend?

You can apply if:

• You are a resident of Gujarat.
• You are a person with physical disabilities and hold a valid PH identity card issued by the competent authority.
• You are interested in poultry rearing as an occupation or a supplementary income.
• You are willing to attend the full 7-day training session, not a part of it.
• You have a bank account in your own name for the stipend transfer.

You cannot apply if:

• You are not a resident of Gujarat.
• You do not hold a valid PH identity card. A person with a disability whose card has lapsed, or who has never been assessed, is not eligible until the card is obtained or renewed from the district authority.
• You cannot commit to the full week of training, since attendance across all 7 days is what supports the stipend claim.
• You are applying outside the notified window for the financial year.
• You have already been trained and paid under this component; the training is designed as a one-time intervention per beneficiary.

Notably, the published eligibility does not require land ownership, an existing flock or any farming background. This is one of the few animal husbandry components in Gujarat open to a landless applicant, which is deliberate given who it is meant to serve.

What documents are required?

Check the validity period printed on the PH identity card before you apply. Many cards are issued for a fixed term and a lapsed card is treated as no card at all at the verification stage, which is an avoidable way to lose a seat.

How to apply for the poultry training stipend

1. Open ikhedut.gujarat.gov.in during the application window notified for the financial year.
2. If you are new to the portal, click Login, then Beneficiary Registration, and choose the beneficiary type that fits, Farmer or Except For the Farmer if you do not hold land.
3. Select your district, taluka and village, state what kind of account holder you are, enter your bank account number and name, solve the captcha and click Save and Next.
4. Enter your mobile number and email, click Send OTP, enter the OTP, set and confirm a password, solve the captcha and Submit.
5. Log in, click Schemes, then the Animal Husbandry scheme list, find the poultry training stipend component and click Apply.
6. Click Apply New and fill the form — personal details, disability and PH card details, and bank account details.
7. Use Update Application to correct anything, then confirm the application; after confirmation it cannot be edited.
8. Print the confirmed application, sign it or affix a thumb impression, and submit it with photocopies of your documents at the office shown on the acknowledgement.
9. Attend the full 7-day training at the Intensive Poultry Development Unit when you are called, and keep the attendance or completion record.

How to apply if you cannot use a computer

The application originates on iKhedut, so a purely paper route does not exist. Three options work in practice, and all three are relevant for an applicant whose disability makes travel difficult.

1. Use the Village Computer Entrepreneur (VCE) at the gram panchayat e-Gram centre, which is usually the closest access point.
2. Use a Common Service Centre, many of which will complete the form on your behalf for the notified charge.
3. Ask the veterinary officer at the nearest veterinary dispensary, or the staff at the Intensive Poultry Development Unit in your district, to identify the component and help with the form.

How to check your application and stipend status

1. Open ikhedut.gujarat.gov.in and go to the Applicant Corner.
2. Enter your application number and registered mobile number.
3. The screen shows whether the application is pending, approved or rejected, and lets you reprint it or upload documents.
4. Once approved, expect a call letter naming the training dates and venue; confirm the dates with the office if the letter does not reach you.
5. For the stipend itself, check the bank account you entered on the form after the training concludes.

Why applications get rejected

• PH identity card expired or not attached, which removes the single eligibility condition the scheme turns on.
• Signed printout never submitted after the application was confirmed online.
• Training not completed. A trainee who attends three days of a seven-day course will normally not be paid.
• Bank account name mismatch between the passbook and Aadhaar, which stops the transfer after approval.
• Seats for the batch filled, which is a capacity limit rather than a defect. The application can be carried to the next batch.
• Applied outside the notified window for the financial year.

Where to get help

• Nearest veterinary dispensary or Intensive Cattle and Poultry Development office. The first place to ask when the next batch is running.
• District Deputy Director of Animal Husbandry for escalation if an approved application does not result in a training call.
• Directorate of Animal Husbandry, Gandhinagar (doah.gujarat.gov.in) for scheme guidelines and departmental circulars.
• iKhedut Applicant Corner for login, application-number and upload problems.
• Mari Yojana (mariyojana.gujarat.gov.in), the state's citizen scheme directory, where this scheme is listed as scheme number 550.

Because the batch calendar, the target and the window are re-notified each financial year, read the component text on iKhedut for the current year before making travel plans. The Rs 2,000 stipend and the 7-day duration are what the state currently publishes for this scheme, and both are subject to revision in a later year's resolution.