Himachal Pradesh Government Schemes

Survey-based identification of left-out poor families and linkage to the welfare schemes each family is entitled to

50 per cent subsidy, up to Rs 1,300, on an LPG connection and gas stove

Annual assistance per child for up to two children of helpless mothers

Full care, education and rehabilitation of "Children of the State" up to age 27

Rs 1,000 per month per child below 18, plus tuition and hostel support for higher studies

Rs 3 lakh grant for building a new house, plus water and electricity connections

Concessional self-employment and education loans to Other Backward Classes families, repaid in 20 quarterly instalments over 5 years

A one-time financial assistance of Rs 5,000 to start a small business or trade

Untied cash awards of Rs 25 lakh to Rs 1.25 crore for the best performing urban local bodies

120 days of guaranteed wage employment per household per financial year at the state-notified minimum wage, plus free skill training and bank linkage

Rs 21,000 post-birth deposit plus class-wise annual scholarships from Rs 450 to Rs 5,000, for up to two girls per BPL family

One-time marriage grant for daughters of destitute women, widows, or families with annual income below Rs 35,000

One-time marriage grant of Rs 31,000 to a BPL family for the marriage of a daughter aged 18 or above

An official Himachal Pradesh birth certificate issued from the register of births, accepted for school admission, Aadhaar, passport and every proof of age or parentage

A permanent state record of a death in Himachal Pradesh, accepted by banks, insurers, the revenue department for mutation of land and the courts for succession

Cash awards of Rs 1 lakh to Rs 10 lakh for the cleanest Gram Panchayats at block, district, division and state level

Municipal permission to carry on a named trade at a named premises inside a Himachal Pradesh municipal corporation, municipal council or nagar panchayat

An official SC, ST or OBC certificate signed by the Tehsildar or SDO, accepted for reservation in Himachal Pradesh education, government jobs and welfare schemes

An official Himachal Pradesh Police character certificate recording that police records show nothing adverse against you, used for jobs, passport, visa and licence purposes

Honorarium and two-day police training for citizens enrolled as anti-drug community volunteers

Rs 25,000 a month sustenance allowance for one year, free incubation support, up to Rs 10 lakh marketing assistance and patent cost reimbursement

Rs 500 per month as disability pension, plus a one-time Rs 50,000 above 50 per cent disability or Rs 25,000 below 50 per cent

Rs 51,000 per daughter, up to two daughters, deposited as a Fixed Deposit Receipt in the daughter's name

Rs 51,000 for the registered worker's own marriage, or Rs 51,000 each for the marriage of up to two children

Rs 20,000 to the nominee or dependants of a deceased registered construction worker for last-rite expenses

Rs 15,000 to Rs 20,000 per year towards hostel accommodation, boarding and food for the children of a registered construction worker

Financial assistance to bonafide Himachali workers newly taken on by industrial units in the state

Registration as a beneficiary of the HP BOCW Welfare Board, which is the precondition for every welfare scheme the Board runs for construction workers in Himachal Pradesh

Rs 25,000 on childbirth to a registered woman construction worker, plus maternity leave wages at the minimum wage rate for 90 days up to 26 weeks

Rs 20,000 every year towards the care of a registered construction worker's mentally challenged or disabled child

Short modular vocational training courses with assessment and certification, for school dropouts and unorganised sector workers

House construction assistance to registered building and other construction workers; Rs 3.00 lakh under the Board's approved housing scheme for registered widow, single, destitute and Divyang women workers

Rs 6,000 per delivery for up to two deliveries to the wife of a registered male construction worker, and Rs 1,000 to the registered male worker on the birth of a child

Rs 4,00,000 on accidental death during work and Rs 2,00,000 on natural death, paid to the registered worker's nominee or dependants

A minimum monthly pension of Rs 1,000 for life after the registered worker turns 60

A registration certificate for a shop or commercial establishment in Himachal Pradesh, digitally signed by the Labour Inspector and downloadable from labour.hp.gov.in

Monthly allowance to unemployed Himachali youth undergoing skill training or upgradation

Monthly allowance to educated unemployed youth registered on the Himachal Pradesh employment exchange

A monthly pension of Rs 1,500 to the widow of a registered construction worker

Monthly disability allowance of Rs 1,150 to Rs 3,000 depending on certified disability percentage and gender, paid by direct benefit transfer

Grant for construction of a new house for houseless persons from notified weaker-section categories

Free travel for senior citizens above 80 years and a 50 per cent concession for those aged 70 to 80 on organised pilgrimage tours within Himachal Pradesh

Centrally assisted disability pension topped up by Himachal Pradesh to Rs 1,700 a month, and Rs 3,000 a month for 100 per cent disability

Rs 1,500 per month paid by Direct Benefit Transfer to the woman's own bank account

One-time cash award to a legally married inter-caste couple where one partner is from a Scheduled Caste

Monthly old-age pension of Rs 1,000 to Rs 1,700 depending on age and gender, paid by direct benefit transfer

Monthly rehabilitation allowance of Rs 1,000 to Rs 1,500 for leprosy-affected residents, paid by direct benefit transfer

Concessional term loans up to Rs 20 lakh at 6 per cent for minorities and up to Rs 25 lakh for persons with disabilities, plus education loans at 3 to 4 per cent

A state-issued senior citizen identity card recognised by Himachal Pradesh government departments as proof of senior-citizen status

Monthly pension of Rs 1,000 for transgender residents of Himachal Pradesh, paid by direct benefit transfer

Monthly pension of Rs 1,500 for eligible women up to age 69 and Rs 1,700 from age 70, paid by direct benefit transfer

An official Bonafide Himachali Certificate confirming permanent residence in Himachal Pradesh, used for state jobs, college admissions and scheme eligibility

Confirmation from the Himachal Pradesh Revenue Department of what has been registered against a described piece of land, read alongside the jamabandi entry that records any subsisting mortgage

An Income and Asset Certificate proving Economically Weaker Section status, accepted as proof for the 10% EWS reservation in central and Himachal Pradesh recruitment and in educational admissions

Enhanced state relief for houses, shops, cowsheds, household goods, land, crops and livestock lost in a natural calamity

An official certificate of the applicant's family income issued by the HP Revenue Department, used for ration cards, subsidies, housing allotment and scholarships

An official extract naming the owner and cultivator of a khasra number in Himachal Pradesh with the khewat, khatauni, area, land class and encumbrances, used for loans, mutation, court cases and construction approvals

A Revenue Department certificate naming the surviving heirs of a deceased person, used in Himachal Pradesh for pension, service dues, provident fund and compassionate claims

An official Himachal Pradesh record of your marriage, accepted by state departments, banks, passport offices, insurers and foreign embassies as legal proof that the marriage exists

An official Other Backward Classes certificate signed by the Tehsildar, used to claim OBC reservation in Himachal Pradesh government posts, colleges and welfare schemes

An attested mutation (intkal) entered in the Jamabandi so the Record of Rights, the land revenue demand and the digitally signed Jamabandi all carry your name

A sale deed registered under the Registration Act 1908 that gives you legally recognised title to land or a house in Himachal Pradesh and a permanent record in the Sub-Registrar's register

Rs 18,000 per year for two years to 2,250 top-ranking SC and OBC matriculation students

Merit scholarship for meritorious government school students of classes 6, 7 and 8

Rs 18,000 per year, renewable annually, for merit-list students continuing to a degree or postgraduate course

Rs 18,000 per year to 2,000 top-ranking girl students, renewable until the course is completed

Rs 18,000 per year to girl students of Balmiki families studying beyond matriculation

One-time incentive of Rs 75,000 on securing admission to a premier national institution

Interest subsidy on an education loan taken from a bank for higher study in India or abroad

Annual scholarship for IRDP and BPL students from Class 9 to university, with a higher rate for girls and for college students

State scholarship assistance towards the fees of Himachali cadets studying at Sainik School Sujanpur Tihra

Rs 18,000 per year for two years to the top 2,000 General category matriculation students

Monthly technical education stipend of Rs 200 to Rs 500 depending on course level and category

60 per cent subsidy on capital cost (shed, feeders, drinkers) and on recurring cost (day-old chicks and feed) for a 3,000-bird broiler unit

Cluster-based support for inputs, training, fencing and marketing, plus assured procurement of naturally grown wheat at Rs 40 per kg and maize at Rs 30 per kg up to 20 quintals per family

State pays 50 per cent of the outstanding interest on an overdue agricultural loan of up to Rs 3 lakh

50 per cent subsidy on small mushroom houses, 40 per cent on three-room production units and on spawn or compost making units, plus 100 per cent funded training

85 per cent assistance for small and marginal farmers and 50 per cent for large farmers on protected cultivation structures for flowers, up to 4,000 sq m per beneficiary, plus planting material and training

80 per cent assistance on anti-hail net structures over a maximum of 5,000 square metres per beneficiary

Goat units of 11 goats (10 female + 1 male), 5 goats (4 female + 1 male) or 3 goats (2 female + 1 male) at 60 per cent subsidy, with feed, fodder and pregnancy insurance

50 per cent subsidy on balanced ration at 3 kg per day per animal, for up to 2 animals, for 3 months

70 per cent back-ended assistance on polysheet replacement, up to Rs 44.80 per square metre against a cost norm of Rs 64 per square metre

Assistance for establishing a kiwi orchard, covering planting material, the trellis or support system and orchard establishment costs

80 per cent assistance on bee colonies up to Rs 1,600 each for 50 colonies, 50 per cent on honey extractor and container sets, Rs 3 lakh for district bee-breeders, and paid training

70 per cent subsidy on solar fencing, solar-interlinked chain fencing, interlink chain fencing or barbed wire fencing around farmland

Rs 3,500 a year paid by DBT to licensed reservoir fishermen during the annual closed fishing season

Guaranteed state MSP purchase of naturally grown grain up to 20 quintals per family, plus training and input subsidies for natural farming

80 to 100 per cent financial assistance on solar-powered irrigation pump sets, graded by farmer category, with the highest rate for registered farmer groups

Breeding rams of improved Rampur Bushahri and Gaddi stock supplied to sheep breeders at a subsidised price

Cash award and recognition for livestock owners rearing high-yielding milch animals

One free baby kit handed to the mother at the government health institution where the baby is delivered

Cashless treatment up to Rs 5 lakh per year per family of five in empanelled hospitals

One-time financial assistance of Rs 50,000 to Rs 3 lakh for accredited serving and retired journalists, their heirs and dependants

Grant of Rs 1,50,000 for construction of a new house

Rs 3,000 per month financial assistance to patients with specified chronic and incapacitating diseases

Official Himachal Pradesh proof of widowhood or indigence, accepted by the state's social security pension system, which pays eligible women beneficiaries a monthly pension

Support for cultivation of medicinal and aromatic plants for rural income generation — scheme-specific benefit rates could not be confirmed on a Himachal Pradesh government source

Partial reimbursement of travel fare for presenting a paper at a conference, seminar, symposium or workshop

Free domestic LPG connection with gas stove, plus three free refills, for households not covered by Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana

A ration card in one of Himachal Pradesh's five categories — AAY, PHH, BPL, APL or APL Taxpayer — that fixes the household's issue price and monthly scale of wheat, rice, pulses, oil, salt and sugar

Restoration of the pre-2003 defined-benefit pension, in place of the contributory National Pension System, for Himachal Pradesh government employees