Odisha Government Schemes
Odisha state government schemes — welfare, scholarship and farmer support schemes, with eligibility, documents and how to apply.
111 schemes across 18 departments · updated 2026
Health and Family Welfare Department
Free weekly specialist consultation in 12 disciplines at urban primary health facilities, with free drugs and diagnostics
View guide →Digitised maternal, child and NCD service records maintained by your ANM, enabling follow-up reminders and faster entitlement processing
View guide →Cashless secondary and tertiary hospital treatment of Rs 5 lakh per family per year, with an additional Rs 5 lakh reserved for women members
View guide →Cashless hospital treatment up to Rs 5 lakh per family per year, with a higher ceiling for women members
View guide →An official birth certificate issued from the Odisha register of births, accepted for school admission, Aadhaar, passport and every government scheme requiring proof of age or parentage
View guide →Free treatment at all Odisha government hospitals for everyone, plus Rs 5 lakh a year of cashless private-hospital cover per beneficiary family
View guide →Free beltless sanitary napkins distributed in school every month to girl students in Classes 6 to 12
View guide →Free essential medicines, cancer drugs and surgical consumables dispensed against a government doctor's prescription
View guide →Transport Department
State-paid 10 per cent down payment, annual interest support and free driving training for a commercial four-wheeler
View guide →Purchase subsidy credited to the buyer's bank account by the RTO, plus 100 percent exemption from motor vehicle tax and registration fees
View guide →Persons with Disabilities Welfare Department
One-time incentive of Rs 2,50,000 to a couple where one spouse has a permanent benchmark disability
View guide →Monthly scholarship for students with disability from Class VI to postgraduate and professional courses
View guide →Umbrella disability scheme covering certification camps, aids and appliances, surgery assistance, scholarships, coaching, self-employment and SHG support
View guide →Free shelter, food, clothing, medical care, counselling and skill training for abandoned transgender persons
View guide →Monthly social security pension for destitute elderly, widows, persons with disabilities and other notified categories
View guide →Monthly pension for registered construction workers aged 60 and above, paid through the state social security pension machinery
View guide →Monthly scholarship of Rs 1,000 to Rs 2,500 for children of beggars and destitute families, for up to 10 months a year
View guide →Rs 1,500 per month per transgender child, paid to the parent or guardian until the child turns 18
View guide →Financial support up to Rs 50,000 for a cured leprosy person to get a daughter married
View guide →Monthly scholarship of Rs 800 to Rs 2,000 for up to 10 months in an academic year
View guide →Grant of up to Rs 1 lakh for a state level event and up to Rs 50,000 for a district level event in the disability sector
View guide →Documentary proof of age and Odisha residence that unlocks age-based concessions, SSEPD old-age pension and the senior citizen desk at your local police station
View guide →Rs 13,500 scholarship per year, Rs 5 lakh health cover, free skill training and shelter home support for transgender persons
View guide →One free branded laptop with JAWS screen-reading software for visually impaired students in higher education
View guide →Monthly scholarship of Rs 1,000 to Rs 3,000 for up to 10 months in an academic year
View guide →The document bundle Odisha accepts as proof of widow or destitute status — the husband's death certificate with a free e-District Resident Certificate and Income Certificate — which supports a Madhu Babu Pension Yojana claim
View guide →Agriculture, Farmers Welfare and Co-operation Department
Collateral-free crop loan of up to Rs 1.6 lakh per member of a five-member Joint Liability Group
View guide →Cashless hospital treatment for farmer families through a network of empanelled hospitals — no longer open for fresh enrolment
View guide →50 per cent subsidy for General and 60 per cent for SC/ST/women/PWD/transgender on bio-floc tanks, shed, blower, pump, backup power and one crop of inputs
View guide →Back-ended subsidy on a 2-animal graded Murrah buffalo unit — 50 per cent for General and 60 per cent for SC, ST, women, transgender and differently abled beneficiaries
View guide →Rs 4,000 a year for small and marginal farmers, plus Rs 12,500 one-time livelihood support for landless agricultural households
View guide →Rs 10,000 a year cultivation support under the original KALIA design; Rs 12,500 in three instalments for landless agricultural households
View guide →Course fees plus hostel and mess assistance of Rs 1,000 to Rs 1,200 a month for 10 months
View guide →A verified farmer profile and Krushak Parichaya Patra that unlocks Odisha's farm welfare schemes and subsidies from one login
View guide →Rs 15,000 a year paid in one instalment by DBT to one member of each affected marine fisher family
View guide →40 per cent subsidy for General and 50 per cent for SC/ST/women/PWD/transgender on pond excavation plus one crop of inputs
View guide →Back-ended subsidy of 40 or 60 per cent on one new inboard or outboard boat engine up to 100 HP
View guide →Capital Investment Subsidy of 40 to 50 percent of fixed capital investment, excluding land cost, for new commercial agri-enterprises
View guide →Back-ended subsidy of 40 to 60 per cent across 17 fisheries sub-schemes, plus Rs 15,000 fishing-ban livelihood support
View guide →Per-hectare cash incentive for adopting improved millet agronomy, plus MSP procurement of ragi, seed support, farm machinery and enterprise grants
View guide →Back-ended subsidy of 40 per cent of unit cost on approved fisheries machinery, from Rs 2,000 for an ice box to Rs 4,00,000 for a live fish transport vehicle
View guide →Back-ended subsidy of Rs 1.76 lakh, 40 per cent of the Rs 4.4 lakh unit cost, for a 1,000-duck semi-commercial unit
View guide →Tourism Department
Panchayat and Rural Development Department
State-funded piped drinking water supply to rural habitations and urban wards
View guide →Housing assistance of Rs 1.20 lakh to Rs 1.30 lakh in four instalments, plus Rs 12,000 for a toilet and 90 to 95 days of MGNREGS wages
View guide →Grant funding for village-level infrastructure works chosen by the gram sabha
View guide →The official state record of a death in Odisha, required to close bank accounts, claim insurance and pension, mutate land in the RoR and obtain a legal heir certificate
View guide →Housing loan of Rs 1 lakh to Rs 3 lakh with a state subsidy of Rs 30,000 to Rs 70,000
View guide →Sports, Youth and Cultural Activities Department
Cash award of Rs 1 lakh to Rs 3 lakh with a statue and certificate, across 8 award categories
View guide →100 per cent of the SAI NSNIS course fee for BPL sportspersons and 75 per cent for non-BPL, plus a travel and miscellaneous grant
View guide →Rs 1,200 per month as financial assistance to aged artists of Odisha
View guide →Monthly pension of Rs 3,000 for former sportspersons of Odisha living in indigent conditions
View guide →Education Department
One-time Direct Benefit Transfer of Rs 30,000 for purchase of a laptop
View guide →Rs 5,000 to Rs 10,000 per year, released as one lump sum for the whole course
View guide →Rs 20,000 per year for UG, PG and professional students from vulnerable households
View guide →100% interest subsidy on an education loan up to Rs 15 lakh, for study in India or abroad
View guide →Up to Rs 25 lakh per year for PG or PhD study at a QS top-200 foreign university
View guide →Rs 5,000 per annum for higher secondary students with proven mathematics talent
View guide →Classroom-level learning enhancement at secondary stage in government schools across all 30 districts
View guide →Free remedial teaching and workbooks in government schools to bring Class VI-VIII students to grade-appropriate learning levels
View guide →One-time grant of Rs 20,000 for Plus 3 Odia Honours and Rs 30,000 for M.A. Odia
View guide →Labour, Skill Development and Employment Department
Disability assistance of Rs 80,000 to Rs 1,50,000 plus a treatment-period allowance
View guide →Reimbursement up to Rs 4,000 for the purchase of a bicycle, against a purchase receipt
View guide →Rs 2,00,000 on natural death and Rs 4,00,000 on accidental death in the course of employment, with Rs 5,000 funeral assistance
View guide →Rs 2,000 to Rs 40,000 per year per child, plus 20 per cent extra for girls
View guide →One-time grant of Rs 5,000 towards funeral expenses of a registered construction worker
View guide →Rs 50,000 one-time marriage assistance to a registered construction worker
View guide →Rs 10,000 per child for up to two children, paid to registered women construction workers
View guide →Up to Rs 3,00,000 towards treatment of listed major ailments, on the lines of the Odisha State Treatment Fund
View guide →Reimbursement up to Rs 1,000 for safety equipment and up to Rs 4,000 for working tools
View guide →One-time reimbursement of up to Rs 4,000 for purchase of trade working tools
View guide →Annual course-linked scholarship for children of registered construction workers in ITI, ITC and diploma courses
View guide →Pension, death, disability and maternity benefits for registered unorganised sector workers
View guide →Full waiver of tuition, admission, laboratory and hostel fees, plus free hostel and food
View guide →Registration as a beneficiary of the Odisha Building and Other Construction Workers' Welfare Board, with an identity card giving access to education assistance, marriage support, maternity benefit, death and funeral assistance, accident coverage, treatment for major ailments, working tools and safety equipment, plus Nirman Shramik Pucca Ghar Yojana, Nirman Shramik Pension Yojana and Nirman KUSUM
View guide →Annual education assistance from Rs 2,000 in Class 6 to Rs 40,000 for professional degrees, plus 20 per cent extra for a girl child and a Rs 10,000 cash award for 90 per cent in Class 10
View guide →A pucca house of Rs 1.20 lakh to Rs 1.30 lakh in four instalments for registered building and construction workers in rural Odisha
View guide →Free NSQF-aligned skill training with industry placement, including a recruitment letter before training under the Recruit Train Deploy model
View guide →A registration certificate under the Odisha Shop and Commercial Establishment Act 1956 recording a shop or commercial establishment on the Labour Commissioner's rolls
View guide →Fee exemption plus Rs 18,000 a year maintenance for hostellers and Rs 6,000 a year for day scholars
View guide →Revenue Department
A digitally signed SC, ST, OBC or SEBC certificate from the Tahasildar, accepted across Odisha for reservation in education, government jobs and welfare schemes
View guide →An official Resident Certificate confirming continuous residence in an Odisha Tahasil, accepted by Odisha government departments, colleges and scheme portals
View guide →An official record of every registered sale, mortgage, gift, lease or attachment affecting a specific property in Odisha for the period searched, signed off by the Sub-Registrar
View guide →An Income and Asset Certificate in Form No. 5 proving Economically Weaker Section status, used to claim the 10% EWS reservation in central and Odisha government recruitment and in college admissions
View guide →A digitally signed certificate of total annual family income issued by the Revenue & Disaster Management Department and delivered in 10 working days
View guide →An official Odisha Record of Rights (khatiyan) showing the recorded tenant, khata and plot details — free to view online, and available as a Tahasildar-certified copy for banks, courts and registration
View guide →An official Revenue Department certificate naming the surviving heirs of a deceased person, accepted by Odisha government offices for pension, gratuity, arrear salary, provident fund and ex-gratia claims
View guide →A free, digitally issued OBC or SEBC certificate from the Revenue and Disaster Management Department, used for reserved seats and posts in Odisha
View guide →A corrected Record of Rights (ROR) in Odisha's Bhulekh land records showing the new owner against the khata and plot number, along with the rent receipt in that name
View guide →A sale deed registered under the Registration Act 1908 that gives you legally recognised title to the property and a permanent, searchable entry in the Odisha registration records
View guide →Home Department
Industries and Mines Department
Reimbursement of bank interest on fund-based working capital loans of manufacturing MSMEs, on a four-slab scale from 100 percent down to 25 percent
View guide →Reimbursement of quality certification charges — 75 percent up to Rs 75,000 under the central ISO scheme, or 100 percent up to Rs 5 lakh under Odisha MSMED Policy 2022
View guide →Housing assistance of Rs 1.20 lakh to Rs 1.30 lakh in four instalments for kutcha households in mining-affected blocks, plus Rs 12,000 for a toilet
View guide →Rs 100 crore fund-of-funds channelled through SEBI-registered partner funds that must invest at least 1:1 in Odisha-registered startups
View guide →Information and Public Relations Department
Rs 5 lakh health insurance cover for a working journalist and dependants, plus ex-gratia for death or permanent disability during duty
View guide →Rs 4 lakh ex-gratia to the legal heir on death of a working journalist, Rs 2 lakh on permanent incapacitation
View guide →Textiles and Handicrafts Department
90% subsidy on looms and technology upgradation accessories, with the weaver paying only 10% of the cost
View guide →Life and disability insurance for handloom weavers aged 18-59, plus a Siksha Sahayog scholarship for two children
View guide →Monthly financial assistance to aged handloom weavers and handicraft artisans of Odisha
View guide →Rs 17,500 assistance for a loom-side power backup and lighting package — inverter, battery, ceiling fan, LED tube light and wiring
View guide →Women and Child Development Department
Rs 12,000 for a girl child and Rs 10,000 for a boy child, paid in two conditional instalments
View guide →A monitoring and reporting system for Ama Kalika creches, not a cash benefit
View guide →A government-funded savings deposit created in a girl child's name at birth, released with accumulation when she turns 21
View guide →Rs 10,000 a year in two instalments of Rs 5,000, totalling Rs 50,000 over five years
View guide →Urban Development and Housing Department
A legally valid Odisha marriage certificate accepted for passports, spouse visas, bank and insurance nominations, pension claims and name change
View guide →Legal regularisation of an unauthorised or deviated building on payment of a compounding fee
View guide →A municipal trade licence permitting you to carry on a named trade at a named premises inside an Odisha municipal corporation, municipality or notified area council
View guide →Minority Welfare Department
Food Supplies and Consumer Welfare Department
5 kg of rice per person per month at Re 1 per kg for households not covered by the National Food Security Act
View guide →An NFSA or State Food Security Scheme ration card that entitles the household to subsidised rice and wheat from a fair price shop in Odisha and, under One Nation One Ration Card, elsewhere in India
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