Uttar Pradesh Unemployment Allowance Scheme (Berojgari Bhatta)

What is the Uttar Pradesh Unemployment Allowance Scheme?

Uttar Pradesh Unemployment Allowance Scheme, known across the state as berojgari bhatta, is a temporary cash support for educated unemployed residents of the state, run by the Department of Training and Employment (Sewayojan Vibhag). The department's platform is the Rojgar Sangam / Sewayojan portal at sewayojan.up.nic.in, which is where every part of the process begins.

The allowance is designed as a cushion, not as an income. A young graduate in a district town who is genuinely searching for work still has to pay for travel to interviews, form fees, photocopies, internet and a phone. A small monthly sum keeps that search alive during the months between finishing a degree and finding a first job.

An important framing point, because it is the source of most disappointment: the Sewayojan portal is primarily an employment exchange, not an allowance portal. What the portal itself advertises is online job-seeker registration, job search by location, salary and qualification, employer access to the job seeker database, and participation in Rojgar Mela job fairs. The allowance sits behind that registration as a separate, verified and budget-dependent benefit. Registering does not by itself start a payment.

Key features

• Allowance commonly cited at around Rs 1,000 per month, paid by DBT.
• Delivered to registered job seekers on sewayojan.up.nic.in.
• Requires Uttar Pradesh domicile, a minimum education level, an age band and a family income ceiling widely cited at Rs 36,000 a year.
• Free registration, no fee at any stage.
• Registration also unlocks job alerts, Rojgar Mela invitations and placement support.
• Portal helpline 155330.

Who is eligible for the UP unemployment allowance?

You can be considered if:

• You are a permanent resident of Uttar Pradesh and can produce a domicile or residence certificate.
• You are registered as a job seeker on sewayojan.up.nic.in, with all your educational and technical qualifications entered.
• You are genuinely unemployed: not in a job, not self-employed, and not drawing a stipend.
• You are within the prescribed age band. The band published for the scheme has varied across notifications, so confirm the current range on the portal rather than relying on a figure from a news article.
• You hold the minimum educational qualification the scheme prescribes.
• Your total family income from all sources is within the ceiling, commonly cited as Rs 36,000 a year, evidenced by a tehsil income certificate.
• You have a bank account in your own name, Aadhaar-seeded, for the transfer.

You cannot apply, or are not eligible, if:

• You are employed, self-employed or running a business, whether in the government or the private sector.
• You are already receiving a government stipend, pension, apprenticeship payment or another unemployment benefit.
• Your family income exceeds the ceiling on the income certificate.
• You are outside the prescribed age band for the scheme.
• You are not a permanent resident of Uttar Pradesh, even if you are currently living and job-hunting in the state.
• You are still studying full time rather than available for employment.
• You refuse suitable employment or training offered through the employment exchange, which is a standard ground for discontinuing an unemployment allowance.

What documents are required?

The portal itself carries a specific instruction that trips up a large share of registrants: enter all educational and technical qualifications, not just the highest one. A candidate who lists only a BA and omits an ITI certificate will simply not surface in employer searches for ITI-qualified applicants.

How to apply for the Uttar Pradesh unemployment allowance

1. Open sewayojan.up.nic.in and choose Job Seeker Registration on the home page.
2. Create your account with your name, date of birth, mobile number and email ID, and verify the mobile number using the OTP the portal sends.
3. Complete your profile, permanent address, district, category, and every educational and technical qualification you hold with its marks and year.
4. Enter your experience and skills, and upload your photograph along with the scanned documents the form asks for.
5. Submit the registration and save the registration number the portal issues. This number is your identity in every later step.
6. Log back in and open the unemployment allowance section of your dashboard, complete the allowance application, and attach the income certificate, domicile certificate and bank passbook.
7. Report to the district employment exchange when called, with the originals of every document, for verification of your unemployment status, income and residence.
8. Track the sanction through your portal login and check your bank account for the DBT credit once the district office confirms sanction.

How to apply offline or with assistance

1. Visit a Jan Suvidha Kendra or Common Service Centre and ask the operator to register you as a job seeker on sewayojan.up.nic.in.
2. Collect the printed registration acknowledgement with your registration number.
3. Take that acknowledgement and your original documents to the district employment exchange (Sewayojan Karyalaya) and file the allowance application there.
4. Ask for a dated receiving on your copy of the application.

Registration on the portal is free. A Jan Suvidha Kendra may charge only the small government-notified service fee for assisted filing. No one can charge you for "arranging" the allowance.

How much is paid and for how long?

The figure most widely reported for the Uttar Pradesh unemployment allowance is around Rs 1,000 per month, credited by direct benefit transfer to the beneficiary's bank account. The state government fixes both the rate and the maximum period for which the allowance runs, and both have changed across notifications over the years.

This guide deliberately does not state a single hard figure as settled fact, because the amount is not published as a permanent, currently confirmed rate on the departmental portal. Treat any number you see on a private website: including higher figures such as Rs 1,500 — as unverified until you see it on sewayojan.up.nic.in or in a state government order. The allowance is also budget-dependent: sanction in a given year is limited by the funds released for the scheme.

The allowance is by design temporary. It runs while the beneficiary remains unemployed and registered, and it stops on employment, on crossing the age band, or on the expiry of the maximum period prescribed.

How to check your Sewayojan status

1. Open sewayojan.up.nic.in and use the job seeker login.
2. Enter your registration number and password.
3. Read the dashboard for your profile status, pending actions, job matches and Rojgar Mela invitations.
4. For the status of an allowance claim specifically, follow up with the district employment exchange, since the verification and sanction stages are handled there rather than on the portal.

Why applications fail

• Registration incomplete. A profile saved but never finally submitted.
• Qualifications under-entered, so the candidate does not match employer searches or the scheme's education criterion.
• Income certificate above the ceiling, or an expired certificate.
• Applicant found employed at verification, including informal or self-employment.
• Already drawing another government stipend or benefit, which shows up on a duplicate check.
• Bank account not Aadhaar-seeded, so the DBT credit fails after sanction.
• Failure to appear at the district employment exchange when called for verification.
• Name mismatch across Aadhaar, marksheets and the bank account.

What registration is worth even without the allowance

It is worth being clear-eyed here. The allowance is small, conditional and budget-limited. The employment exchange registration behind it is not. A registered profile on sewayojan.up.nic.in puts a candidate into the database employers search, generates job alerts matched to qualifications, and brings Rojgar Mela invitations. The state job fairs where private employers interview and hire on the spot. For most young people in Uttar Pradesh, a complete and honest Sewayojan profile is the more valuable of the two outcomes, and it costs nothing but an hour of careful data entry.

Help and grievance redressal

• Sewayojan portal helpline: 155330.
• Email: sewayojan-up[at]gov[dot]in, as listed on the portal.
• District employment exchange (Sewayojan Karyalaya) at your district headquarters, for verification and sanction queries.
• Integrated Grievance Redressal System at jansunwai.up.nic.in, for a written complaint with a trackable number.

Two cautions. No official will ask for your OTP or bank password. And no agent, consultancy or website can register you for a fee that the government portal does not charge; including the many private sites that mimic the Sewayojan name.