Jharkhand Government Schemes
Jharkhand state government schemes — JharSewa, scholarship and farmer welfare schemes, with eligibility, documents and how to apply.
127 schemes across 20 departments · updated 2026
Information and Public Relations Department
On-the-spot application, grievance redressal and certificate delivery for roughly 33 state schemes at a camp in your own panchayat
View guide →Monthly honorarium pension of Rs 7,500 for life to eligible senior journalists
View guide →Rs 5 lakh floating group mediclaim for the journalist, spouse and two dependent children, plus Rs 5 lakh personal accident cover for the journalist
View guide →Panchayat and Rural Development Department
Rs 2 lakh in instalments to build a three-room pucca house, plus 95 days of MGNREGA unskilled wages
View guide →Fruit saplings plus MGNREGA-funded pit digging, planting and multi-year maintenance so a rural family gains a fruit orchard as a lasting asset
View guide →The legal proof of a person's death, date and place under the Registration of Births and Deaths Act 1969, issued digitally signed and required for insurance, pension, mutation and bank claims
View guide →Nursery set-up support, MGNREGA wage days for nursery work, and assured purchase of saplings by the state
View guide →Producer group membership, irrigation and high-value farming support, market linkage and skill training for rural households
View guide →Panchayat Bhawan construction, office equipment, staff training and e-governance for panchayat secretariats
View guide →Package development of infrastructure and basic services in selected villages associated with martyrs and tribal freedom fighters
View guide →Municipal permission to carry on a named trade at a named premises inside a Jharkhand Municipal Corporation, Nagar Parishad or Nagar Panchayat area
View guide →Education Department
Cashless secondary and tertiary hospital treatment up to Rs 15 lakh per family per year
View guide →One bicycle per eligible school student, distributed through the government school in which the student is enrolled
View guide →Annual grant-in-aid to recognised unaided institutions, computed from the return each institution files on staff, results and infrastructure
View guide →Cashless secondary and tertiary hospital treatment up to Rs 15 lakh per family per year
View guide →Cashless treatment cover of Rs 5 lakh a year per advocate family, extended to Rs 10 lakh for critical illness, with the premium paid by the state
View guide →Assistance towards the treatment cost of a notified grave illness, sanctioned against the hospital's estimate
View guide →Case-by-case financial assistance towards the treatment cost of a serious illness for a poor patient
View guide →Government nursing training places in Jharkhand, filled through JCECEB entrance examinations
View guide →Full course fee reimbursed every academic year plus Rs 5,000 per month sustenance allowance for the whole course
View guide →Minority Welfare Department
Support for setting up and running tribal culture and art centres, and for documentation, camps and performances of tribal art forms
View guide →A pucca house constructed for a PVTG family, with funds released in phases through the district welfare office
View guide →Free competitive-examination coaching at empanelled institutes, with the fee paid by the welfare department
View guide →Course fee reimbursement plus maintenance allowance, paid by DBT once each academic year
View guide →Annual pre-matric scholarship paid by DBT to BC school students in Jharkhand
View guide →Tuition fee reimbursement plus maintenance allowance, paid by DBT each academic year
View guide →Annual pre-matric scholarship for Scheduled Caste students in classes 1 to 10, paid by DBT
View guide →Annual scholarship of Rs 30,000 to Rs 1,00,000 depending on course group and hosteller status
View guide →Annual pre-matric scholarship for Scheduled Tribe students of classes 1 to 10, paid by DBT
View guide →Scholarship assistance for the education of daughters of recognised Manki, Munda and equivalent traditional tribal functionaries
View guide →Fully funded Master's or MPhil abroad — tuition, monthly living allowance, airfare, visa and insurance
View guide →Village-level tribal development grants — Rs 1,00,000 per women's SHG and up to Rs 2,00,000 self-employment support per educated unemployed youth
View guide →Boundary wall, protection and site development works at tribal sacred groves, burial and memorial sites, executed by the district administration
View guide →Free coaching at a department-selected institute, a Rs 1,000 monthly stipend, and Rs 2,000 per month boarding support for outstation candidates
View guide →Fully funded coaching at a selected institute, a Rs 1,000 monthly stipend, and Rs 2,000 per month boarding support for outstation students
View guide →Doorstep health services, screening camps and referral support for households of Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Groups
View guide →Labour, Skill Development and Employment Department
Monthly orphan pension at family pension rates, divided equally among the deceased worker's children under 18
View guide →Rs 10,000 one-time payment for the last rites of a registered worker
View guide →Free short-term skill training at a block-level centre, plus transport allowance and post-training employment allowance under Mukhyamantri Sarthi Yojana
View guide →Reimbursement of treatment expenses for notified serious illnesses, paid once per illness after district committee approval
View guide →Wage compensation at the unskilled minimum wage rate for each day of hospitalisation beyond 5 working days, up to 40 working days
View guide →Rs 3,500 one-time assistance to buy a bicycle
View guide →Free NSQF-aligned residential skill training of 576 hours or more, with boarding, lodging, uniform and placement support
View guide →Free employability and skill training delivered inside college campuses, with certification and placement support
View guide →Infrastructure grant-in-aid to private self-financed engineering and polytechnic institutions, released in three equal instalments against accreditation milestones
View guide →Collateral-free, guarantor-free education loan up to Rs 15 lakh at a state-subsidised interest rate
View guide →No grant amount is published on Jharkhand government sources; the state's operative migrant worker support runs through Shramadhan registration and the migrant labour helpline
View guide →Free migrant worker registration and ID card, plus access to state rehabilitation and relief support
View guide →Rs 5 lakh on accidental death, Rs 3 lakh on total disability, Rs 2 lakh on partial disability and Rs 1 lakh on natural death
View guide →Free NSQF-aligned vocational training with a Rs 1,000 monthly transport allowance and a post-training employment allowance of Rs 1,000 to Rs 1,500 a month
View guide →A Jharkhand BOC or unorganised worker registration and identity card that lets the worker apply for the state's construction worker and unorganised worker schemes
View guide →Rs 15,000 maternity assistance for each of the first two deliveries
View guide →Scholarship of Rs 5,000 to Rs 50,000 a year for up to two children of a registered construction worker
View guide →Rs 5,000 per year unemployment allowance, 50 per cent higher for special categories
View guide →Free skill training plus Rs 1,000 monthly transport allowance and up to 12 months of post-training employment allowance
View guide →Free entrance-exam coaching plus Rs 2,500 per month stipend
View guide →One-time assistance of Rs 1,000 for a personal safety kit
View guide →Rs 1,000 per month disability pension plus a one-time Rs 10,000 grant
View guide →50 per cent of the deceased pensioner's Board pension, up to a maximum of Rs 500 a month, paid to the family
View guide →Rs 1,000 per month old-age pension after 30 years of Board contribution and completion of 60 years
View guide →Free industry-aligned skill training with certification and placement support for youth aged 18 to 35
View guide →An official registration certificate for a shop or commercial establishment in Jharkhand, accepted by banks for a current account and by other departments as proof that the business legally exists
View guide →One trade tool kit for a registered construction worker who has never received one
View guide →Rs 30,000 marriage assistance for up to two children of a registered construction worker, or for a registered woman member's own marriage
View guide →Health and Family Welfare Department
Science and Technology Department
An official SC, ST or OBC caste certificate recognised by Jharkhand government departments, universities and recruitment boards
View guide →An official Marriage Registration Certificate issued through the Jharkhand e-District system and accepted by banks, the passport office, insurers and foreign missions as proof of marriage
View guide →Home Department
Agriculture, Farmers Welfare and Co-operation Department
One-time cash relief to farm families in blocks declared drought-affected, paid by direct benefit transfer
View guide →Floating high-protein fish feed supplied to fish farmers from four cooperative-run state feed mills
View guide →Free residential training with stipend and travel fare, plus free water and soil testing and technical guidance
View guide →80 to 90 per cent subsidy on retail fish stalls, plus office-cum-sale centres, deep freezers and pickup vans for co-operative societies
View guide →Institutional support to build the state fisheries co-operative federation and its member societies, who then receive sale centres, freezers, vans and welfare support
View guide →A combined package of pond construction subsidy, subsidised seed and feed, and free residential training for fish farmers
View guide →One-time waiver of outstanding standard crop loan taken against a Kisan Credit Card
View guide →Rs 3,000 to Rs 4,000 per acre crop loss relief, premium-free, up to 5 acres
View guide →Solar irrigation pump set with up to 90 per cent subsidy; beneficiary pays 10 per cent
View guide →Subsidised bee boxes, bee colonies and bee-keeping equipment with training, aimed at diversifying farm income through honey
View guide →Rs 5,000 per acre per year for holdings up to 5 acres, subject to a Rs 25,000 annual ceiling
View guide →Subsidised livestock units — milch cattle, goat, pig, backyard poultry or duck — supplied to selected rural households
View guide →Capital subsidy towards the construction cost of a fish rearing pond, with a higher share for SC beneficiaries
View guide →Free stocking of fingerlings in state reservoirs, plus subsidised cages and equipment for cage culture by fisheries cooperative society members
View guide →One-time grant of Rs 1,20,000 to build a pucca house
View guide →Food, Civil Supplies and Consumer Affairs Department
Subsidised kerosene issued to ration card families through licensed PDS dealers
View guide →Subsidised pulses issued to ration card families at their mapped PDS shop
View guide →Monthly petrol subsidy credited by direct benefit transfer to eligible ration cardholding two-wheeler owners
View guide →Subsidised monthly foodgrain through the PDS for families excluded from the NFSA quota
View guide →Guaranteed purchase of paddy at MSP of Rs 2,369 (common) or Rs 2,389 (Grade-A) per quintal, plus a state incentive amount
View guide →Monthly Antyodaya food grain entitlement delivered free to the home of a PVTG household
View guide →An official Jharkhand ration card under NFSA, or a state Green Card under the Jharkhand State Food Security Scheme for families left out of NFSA, entitling the household to subsidised foodgrain at its fair price shop
View guide →1 kg of iodised salt per ration card per month through the fair price shop
View guide →One saree and one dhoti or lungi at Rs 10 each, twice a year, through the ration shop
View guide →1 kg of subsidised sugar per AAY ration card per month through the fair price shop
View guide →Revenue Department
An official Jharkhand local resident certificate accepted by JPSC, JSSC, state universities and Jharkhand government departments as proof of local residence in the state
View guide →An official record from the Jharkhand Registration wing of the documents registered against a property in a chosen period, used by banks, buyers and advocates to check for mortgages and charges
View guide →An Income and Asset Certificate certifying EWS status, used to claim the 10 per cent EWS quota in central and Jharkhand government recruitment, JPSC and JSSC exams, and college admissions
View guide →An official Jharkhand government statement of annual family income, digitally signed and ordinarily valid for one year
View guide →An official Jharkhand record showing the raiyat's name, khata and khesra numbers, area, rent payable and the entries recorded against a holding
View guide →An official record of who the surviving heirs of a deceased person are, accepted by Jharkhand government departments, pension branches and employers, and used to move land into the heirs' names in the revenue record
View guide →An official Jharkhand caste certificate recording Backward Class status, with the creamy-layer position certified for reserved seats and posts
View guide →A jamabandi opened in your name in the Jharkhand revenue record, so lagan (land tax) can be paid in your name and the holding can be sold or mortgaged later
View guide →A registered sale deed that legally transfers ownership of land or a house in Jharkhand and becomes the basis for dakhil-kharij (mutation) in the revenue record
View guide →Women and Child Development Department
Rs 1,000 per month paid by DBT to Jharkhand residents living with HIV/AIDS who are on ART or ARD treatment
View guide →Announced livelihood and self-employment support for women already covered by Maiya Samman Yojana
View guide →Rs 1,000 per month social security pension for PVTG families
View guide →Rs 2,500 per month paid directly into the woman's own Aadhaar-linked bank account
View guide →Monthly social security pension for destitute, widowed and abandoned women in Jharkhand
View guide →Rs 1,000 per month paid by direct benefit transfer for life
View guide →Free sanitary pads supplied quarterly through Anganwadi centres
View guide →Rs 1,000 per month paid by DBT into the beneficiary's own bank account
View guide →Rs 2,500 to Rs 5,000 a year through school, plus Rs 20,000 on turning 18 — Rs 40,000 in total
View guide →An official state-issued proof of age and residence that lets a person aged 60 or above claim senior citizen concessions, priority counters and welfare scheme eligibility in Jharkhand
View guide →Rs 1,000 per month disability pension for life, paid by DBT
View guide →One-time incentive of Rs 2 lakh paid by bank transfer to a widow who remarries
View guide →Recognition of widow status by the Jharkhand government through the JharSewa Widow Pension Scheme, backed by the husband's registered death certificate and the Circle Officer's verification
View guide →Sports, Youth and Cultural Activities Department
Grant for organising international, national, zonal and inter-district competitions, released half upfront and half after audit
View guide →One-time cash award to the coach of a medal-winning Jharkhand athlete, graded by the level of the competition
View guide →Lifelong monthly pension graded by sporting achievement
View guide →Rs 4,000 per month paid by Direct Benefit Transfer to needy artists of Jharkhand
View guide →Scholarship and stipend support for talented sportspersons of Jharkhand, sanctioned under the Directorate's sports scholarship resolutions
View guide →Energy and Petrochemicals Department
Transport Department
Urban Development and Housing Department
Forest and Environment Department
Industries and Mines Department
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