Bunkar Parivar Ke Pratibhavan Chatra-Chatraon Ko Protsahan Puraskar Yojana(BPKPCCKPPY)

Overview

About BPKPCCKPPY

The marksheet is the easy half of this award. The half that decides it sits in a register at a village cooperative society, because the money is released against the parent's membership of a primary weaver cooperative society affiliated to the Chhattisgarh state handloom federation, and 284 such societies are on that federation's rolls (Chhattisgarh State Handloom Federation, about the federation). The prize runs from Rs 4,100 for a 60% pass in Class 10 to Rs 20,100 for 90% in Class 12 (Bunkar Parivar Ke Pratibhavan Chatra-Chatraon Ko Protsahan Puraskar Yojana, archived myScheme record). A weaver household outside all 284 societies has no route to any of it, whatever the child scored.

The name is a plain description once it is unpacked: bunkar is weaver, pratibhavan is talented, protsahan puraskar is an encouragement prize, so the scheme is an encouragement prize for the talented sons and daughters of weaver families. It has run since 2007-08, paid by the Chhattisgarh Rajya Hathkargha Vikas Evam Vipanan Sahkari Sangh Maryadit, Raipur to the children of its member weavers who clear the Class 10 or Class 12 board exam (Bunkar Parivar Ke Pratibhavan Chatra-Chatraon Ko Protsahan Puraskar Yojana, archived myScheme record). The word puraskar is exact: this is prize money, not study support. Nothing is paid toward fees, nothing continues into a following year, and nothing depends on where the student enrols afterwards.

The body behind it is a cooperative federation rather than an education department, and that shapes everything about how the award is claimed. The federation itself dates only to 20/12/2000, when it was registered to promote the state's handloom sector, and the 284 primary weaver cooperative societies affiliated to it are its members (Chhattisgarh State Handloom Federation, about the federation). Its portal runs under the masthead of the Government of Chhattisgarh's Department of Rural Industry, and the state's handloom division sits in that department's directorate at Indravati Bhawan, Nava Raipur (Handloom Division, Department of Rural Industries, Chhattisgarh). A student searching under a school-education or social-welfare department will not find this award, and that is one reason it stays obscure.

The population it is written for is small and geographically concentrated. The federation's own profile counts more than 18000 handlooms working in Chhattisgarh and about 54000 persons employed directly and indirectly, with about 4000 looms in the tussar belt of Janjgir-Champa and Raigarh (Chhattisgarh State Handloom Federation, about the federation). The department's handloom division names Champa-Janjgir, Raigarh and Bilaspur as the districts whose kosa cloth is known outside the state, kosa being the local name for the same tussar silk (Handloom Division, Department of Rural Industries, Chhattisgarh). The loom, not the school, is what puts a family inside the catchment for this prize.

The federation and the scheme's own record do not put the same number on the sector. The myScheme entry for this award answers the same question with approximately 45,000 people employed and around 15,000 handlooms (Bunkar Parivar Ke Pratibhavan Chatra-Chatraon Ko Protsahan Puraskar Yojana, archived myScheme record). Neither figure changes who can claim, but a family should not be thrown by seeing the sector described two ways on two government pages.

Who runs it

Provider

At a glance

Key details

Calendar

Important dates

The federation announces neither a start nor a last date for this award, and the application instructions themselves say the form is to be submitted within the prescribed period if any, which is an unusually candid acknowledgement that no fixed window is announced (Bunkar Parivar Ke Pratibhavan Chatra-Chatraon Ko Protsahan Puraskar Yojana, myScheme). The board result is the real clock: the claim becomes possible the day the marksheet reaches the family, and only the district handloom office can say whether its consolidated list for that year has already gone to Raipur.

Families often assume this award runs on the same calendar as the scholarship portal they already know, and it does not. The state's post-matric portal announces dated windows for each academic year and closes them on a fixed day (Post Matric Scholarship Portal, Chhattisgarh). The handloom federation announces nothing, which means the only safe assumption is that the district office wants the form soon after the result, not months later.

Who can apply

Eligibility criteria

Read the published eligibility list closely and one condition appears in it twice: the student's parent must be a regular member of a primary weaver cooperative society affiliated to the federation, and then, separately, the parent must be a regular member of the weaver cooperative society (Bunkar Parivar Ke Pratibhavan Chatra-Chatraon Ko Protsahan Puraskar Yojana, myScheme). A rule stated twice in a five-line list is the scheme pointing at where its files die. Weaving in the household is not the test. Registered, current membership of an affiliated society is.

The income condition is the other half of that same test, and it is not the income certificate most Indian scholarships ask for. More than half of the parent's total income has to come from weaving (Bunkar Parivar Ke Pratibhavan Chatra-Chatraon Ko Protsahan Puraskar Yojana, archived myScheme record). No rupee ceiling is stated, no tehsil office is named, and none of the four papers the scheme asks for is an income document, so which desk actually tests the proportion is not published anywhere. In a district where a weaver also farms a small holding or takes wage work in the off season, that is the question to settle at the society counter before the form goes any further.

The scheme defines a weaver family as husband, wife and their children, so a grandchild or a nephew growing up in a member weaver's house, sharing the same loom and the same income, sits outside the definition, and the student has to be a resident of Chhattisgarh as well. Multi-generational weaving households are ordinary in the kosa belt, and that one line is where several of them lose the claim.

The marks bar is the only condition a student controls, and it is a threshold rather than a contest. A pass in the Class 10 or Class 12 board examination with 60% or above marks opens the claim (Bunkar Parivar Ke Pratibhavan Chatra-Chatraon Ko Protsahan Puraskar Yojana, archived myScheme record), and that condition names no particular board and no particular stream, so a weaver's child sitting a national board rather than the state one is not excluded on the face of the rule.

Who cannot apply

Exclusions

Nothing at all is listed under exclusions, so the real disqualifications sit inside the membership test and inside what the society is asked to certify about the parent. A parent whose society membership has lapsed, or who weaves outside the cooperative structure as an independent or a job worker for a master weaver, is excluded by the membership rule even though the household is unmistakably a weaver household.

The other practical exclusion is documentary rather than substantive. The form asks the applicant to declare details of any previous incentive rewards received, which means the federation is tracking repeat claims across its own welfare schemes rather than treating each application as a fresh sheet (Bunkar Parivar Ke Pratibhavan Chatra-Chatraon Ko Protsahan Puraskar Yojana, myScheme). Leaving that column blank when an earlier award was drawn is the kind of omission that stalls a file at the district stage rather than the society stage, which is far harder to chase from a village.

Continuation

Renewal conditions

There is no renewal form for this award. One board result buys one award, and nothing in the published scheme carries an applicant into a second year, asks for a study-progress report or reopens the claim if the student's course changes.

What can happen twice is qualification, because the scheme reads two different exams. A student who clears Class 10 at or above the bar and then clears Class 12 at or above it meets the scheme on two separate occasions, and the previous-award declaration on the form exists precisely because the federation expects to see the same family name more than once. The second claim starts again at the society counter, on its own form, and it stands or falls on the membership position at that moment rather than on the earlier approval.

What you get

Award & benefits

The prize is stepped by marks band, and it is stepped twice over. Within each board exam the award rises as the percentage band rises, and at every band the Class 12 award sits above the Class 10 award for the same band, so the scheme pays a student more for repeating the performance two years later.

Every figure ends in an odd hundred rather than a round one, in the shagun style of a prize handed over rather than a grant calculated. The federation does not publish that table itself: its own page for the scheme carries the title and nothing beneath it, so the binding slab list reaches a family through the scheme guidelines the district handloom office holds (Chhattisgarh State Handloom Federation, scheme page).

What the award does not do is as important to know. It carries no fee component, no book or stationery grant and no hostel component, so a family planning a Class 11 admission around it is planning around a one-off receipt. The mode and the timing of the payment are published nowhere, and the district handloom office is the right place to settle that question before the file leaves the district.

• The scheme provides monetary incentives to children of weavers based on their performance in 10th and 12th board examinations.
• For 10th Pass Students
• 60% and above marks: ₹4,100/-
• 70% and above marks: ₹8,100/-
• 80% and above marks: ₹12,100/-
• 90% and above marks: ₹16,100/-
• For 12th Pass Students
• 60% and above marks: ₹6,100/-
• 70% and above marks: ₹10,100/-
• 80% and above marks: ₹14,100/-
• 90% and above marks: ₹20,100/-

What to prepare

Documents required

Only one of the four required documents is difficult, and it is not the student's. Everything turns on the society's verification of the parent's membership status, and a bare certificate does not satisfy the form: at the post-application stage the society has to record the membership number and the type of textile production the parent is engaged in, and the President or Manager signs and stamps the form after verifying it (Bunkar Parivar Ke Pratibhavan Chatra-Chatraon Ko Protsahan Puraskar Yojana, myScheme).

That detail is worth acting on before the form is filled. A family that has never needed its membership number, or that finds the society's register carries a different spelling of the parent's name from the one on the child's marksheet, has a correction to make at the society office first. The marksheet copy has to be attested rather than self-attested, and the passport photograph belongs to the student, not the parent.

Step by step

How to apply

A weaver family will not find a login page for this award anywhere. The applicant is told to print the prescribed application format from the scheme guidelines and hand the filled form in at the primary weaver cooperative society (Bunkar Parivar Ke Pratibhavan Chatra-Chatraon Ko Protsahan Puraskar Yojana, myScheme). The link that is supposed to carry those guidelines points at the federation's own scheme page, and that page currently renders the scheme's title and nothing else, with no form to print and no text beneath it (Chhattisgarh State Handloom Federation, scheme page). In practice that makes the society office or the district handloom office the only place to get the format, and it is the reason a family should start with a visit rather than a download.

After the form is handed in, it travels a fixed route. The society verifies membership and stamps the form, then forwards it to the concerned District Handloom Office, where the Deputy or Assistant Director records the date of receipt. A selection committee verifies the details and the marks, the district office prepares a consolidated list of eligible students, and that list with its recommendations goes to the Managing Director of the federation in Raipur (Bunkar Parivar Ke Pratibhavan Chatra-Chatraon Ko Protsahan Puraskar Yojana, myScheme).

Following the File From the Society to Raipur

No portal carries a status page for this award, and no application number is issued online, so the acknowledgement the applicant asks for at submission is the only proof the file exists. Get a receipt showing the date and time of submission and a unique identification number if the society issues one (Bunkar Parivar Ke Pratibhavan Chatra-Chatraon Ko Protsahan Puraskar Yojana, myScheme). The second checkpoint is the district office's own date of receipt, which is the entry that proves the society actually forwarded the file rather than holding it.

The district handloom offices are listed by name, posting and mobile number on the Rural Industries Department's contact page, covering Bilaspur, Jagdalpur, Rajnandgaon, Raipur, Raigarh, Janjgir-Champa and Balod, with several of them holding a neighbouring district as additional charge (Handloom Division officers, Department of Rural Industries, Chhattisgarh). That list is the practical tracking tool here, because a call to the officer who holds the charge is what establishes whether a district's consolidated list has gone to Raipur yet.

How winners are picked

Selection process

The committee that meets on these files is checking marksheets, not choosing between students. A selection committee reviews all applications, verifies the details and the marks obtained, and recommends the eligible candidates for the award (Bunkar Parivar Ke Pratibhavan Chatra-Chatraon Ko Protsahan Puraskar Yojana, myScheme). Since the award is a slab tied to a marks band, a student who clears the bar is not ranked against other applicants and does not lose a place to a higher scorer.

The published record does not name the members of that committee or state where it sits, so the composition of the panel deciding a district's list is not something an applicant can check in advance. The recommendation route makes the district office the accountable stage, and the federation's Managing Director the sanctioning one.

Fine print

Terms & conditions

Beyond the eligibility test, the scheme publishes no separate terms. The conditions that actually bind an applicant are the ones embedded in the process: the society's certification of regular membership, the recording of the membership number and the type of textile production, the declaration of any previous incentive award, and the district office's verification of the marks claimed.

One consequence deserves stating plainly. Because the society is both the certifying authority and the collection point, a dispute with the society, an unpaid subscription or a membership under review can end the claim without the application ever reaching the district office. Where that risk exists, the district handloom office is the place to raise it, since it is the office that records receipt and prepares the list.

Get help

Contact

The implementing body is the Chhattisgarh Rajya Hathkargha Vikas Evam Vipanan Sahkari Sangh Maryadit, at B-26, Sector-07, New Rajendra Nagar, Raipur, reachable on 0771-4059181 and 2410744 and at cghandloom@gmail.com (Chhattisgarh State Handloom Federation, head office contact). For a question about a specific application, the district handloom office that received the file is the faster contact; the directorate's officer list carries a mobile number for each posting, and the directorate itself sits at Indravati Bhawan in Nava Raipur on 0771-2411766 (Handloom Division officers, Department of Rural Industries, Chhattisgarh).

Source

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Frequently asked questions

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Scheme details are compiled from myScheme, the Government of India’s official scheme-discovery platform, and are reproduced without alteration. Amounts, deadlines and eligibility change between cycles, so always confirm on the official links above before applying. Expertie does not process applications or charge fees.

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