Dr. P. G. Solanki Scheme for Stipend to Scheduled Caste Lawyers(DPGSSSSCL)

Overview

About DPGSSSSCL

A Scheduled Caste law graduate in Gujarat has two years from the day the Bar Council of Gujarat registers them to file for this stipend, and the Director of Scheduled Caste Welfare states that limit on the scheme's own page (Dr. P. G. Solanki stipend scheme for lawyers, Director of Scheduled Caste Welfare). It is the condition most likely to end a claim before it starts, because nothing in the published rules opens the window again once it has run out.

The directorate files this scheme under economic upliftment rather than education, and numbers it BCK-32 (Dr. P. G. Solanki stipend scheme for lawyers, Director of Scheduled Caste Welfare). The placement says what the money is for. It is not help with a degree; it is help through the apprenticeship after it, the stretch in a senior's chamber that the department identifies as the point where Scheduled Caste juniors abandon practice.

So the scheme pays two people at once. The Scheduled Caste law graduate draws a monthly stipend through three years of training, and the senior advocate who takes them on draws a separate monthly allowance for doing the training. Gujarat launched it in 2000 under the Department of Social Justice and Empowerment, and the sanction and the money both sit with the District Deputy Director offices of the Scheduled Caste Welfare directorate.

Read one thing before planning around any figure below. The department's e-Samaj Kalyan page for this scheme, which is where applications are actually filed, publishes a revised set of conditions in Gujarati that the directorate's older English page does not carry, including a higher rate card and an annual income ceiling (Dr. P. G. Solanki Scheme for Stipend to Scheduled Caste Lawyers, e-Samaj Kalyan). Both texts are the state's own. The one that governs the form you will file is the portal's; the one the district office is applying to your sanction year is a question worth asking it directly.

Who runs it

Provider

At a glance

Key details

Calendar

Important dates

BCK-32 runs without an application season. Neither official page announces a date on which filing opens or a date on which it shuts, because the scheme replaces a common calendar with a deadline that falls differently for every applicant.

That deadline is the Bar Council of Gujarat registration date, plus two years (Dr. P. G. Solanki stipend scheme for lawyers, Director of Scheduled Caste Welfare). Work backwards from it, because getting the senior advocate's consent, experience certificate and trainee statement together is the slow part.

Who can apply

Eligibility criteria

Four things decide it: the caste certificate, the LLB, the Gujarat domicile and the enrolment date. The applicant has to be a Scheduled Caste law graduate native to Gujarat, and the portal's conditions are blunt that a Scheduled Caste applicant from another state does not qualify here, whatever their present practice (Dr. P. G. Solanki Scheme for Stipend to Scheduled Caste Lawyers, e-Samaj Kalyan).

Half the eligibility test is about someone else. The stipend only exists if a senior advocate agrees to train the applicant, and the senior has to clear a bar of their own that the two official texts do not set at the same height. The directorate's page puts it at 10 years of practice and caps the senior at 2 junior trainees (Dr. P. G. Solanki stipend scheme for lawyers, Director of Scheduled Caste Welfare). The portal's current conditions put it at 7 years and raise the trainee cap (Dr. P. G. Solanki Scheme for Stipend to Scheduled Caste Lawyers, e-Samaj Kalyan). A senior sitting between those two figures therefore qualifies under one state text and not the other, and that is worth settling with the district office before the senior signs anything.

Income splits the same way. The directorate's page says there is no income limit at all (Dr. P. G. Solanki stipend scheme for lawyers, Director of Scheduled Caste Welfare). The portal's conditions do carry an annual income ceiling, waive it for applicants with disabilities, and reserve a share of the sanctioned target for them (Dr. P. G. Solanki Scheme for Stipend to Scheduled Caste Lawyers, e-Samaj Kalyan).

Who cannot apply

Exclusions

No disqualifying list is published for BCK-32 on either the directorate's page or the portal. The hard bars stated elsewhere in the conditions do that work instead: an enrolment older than the two-year limit, a domicile outside Gujarat, a senior advocate short of the experience bar or already carrying a full roll of trainees, and a second claim by someone who has taken the benefit once.

Continuation

Renewal conditions

There is no yearly re-application. The award runs across the three training years, and what keeps the instalments coming is evidence that the training is real. Each of the two official texts names a different filing for that evidence. The myScheme record describes a training certificate the junior hands to the senior advocate. The portal's conditions require a certificate of practice to be placed before the concerned District Deputy Director for Scheduled Caste Welfare every three months (Dr. P. G. Solanki Scheme for Stipend to Scheduled Caste Lawyers, e-Samaj Kalyan). Only the second reaches the office that releases money, so a junior who keeps the senior satisfied but lets the quarterly filing lapse has nothing on record where the payment is made.

What you get

Award & benefits

The stipend steps down each year, on the reasoning that a junior advocate is earning a little more as the training progresses.

The senior's allowance is paid per trainee rather than as a flat fee, which is why the trainee cap and the allowance are written into the same rule. Both sides of the payment need their own bank record: the application form has a full set of bank fields, IFSC included, for the junior advocate and another for the senior (application form, Director of Scheduled Caste Welfare).

That table is the card the directorate's English page still carries. The e-Samaj Kalyan page for the same scheme publishes a higher one for both the junior and the senior (Dr. P. G. Solanki Scheme for Stipend to Scheduled Caste Lawyers, e-Samaj Kalyan). That page exists only in Gujarati and prints its amounts in Gujarati numerals, which is part of why the older English slabs are the ones that keep circulating in write-ups of this scheme. Read the revised card on the portal itself, and get the district office to confirm which one your sanction year is running on before you budget against either.

• The stipend is given to law graduates for training in practice through senior lawyers as under:
• ₹1,000/- per month for First Year Training
• ₹800/- per month for Second Year Training
• ₹600/- per month for Third Year Training
• ₹500/- per month as given to Senior Lawyer for giving training

What to prepare

Documents required

The paperwork comes in two halves and the second half is not yours. Your own file is ordinary: identity and caste papers, the LLB marksheet, the enrolment record, proof of residence and a bank account. The senior advocate's half is what stalls applications, because it needs that advocate to produce documents about their own practice, among them a written statement of how many juniors are already training under them and a signed consent to train you. Every item on the form's document table is marked compulsory (application form, Director of Scheduled Caste Welfare).

One line in that table is worth reading before you approach anybody. The form asks the senior to certify that they have been practising for more than 10 years, which is the directorate's bar, not the shorter one the portal's conditions state (application form, Director of Scheduled Caste Welfare; Dr. P. G. Solanki stipend scheme for lawyers, Director of Scheduled Caste Welfare). Whichever text the office is applying, that certificate is the document you will be asked to produce, so ask the senior what it can honestly say.

Collect the senior's set first. A junior advocate with a clean personal file and no consent letter has nothing to submit.

Step by step

How to apply

The application is made on the e-Samaj Kalyan portal, and the portal's conditions tie the filing to the sanad date rather than to any announced season: apply within two years of receiving it (Dr. P. G. Solanki Scheme for Stipend to Scheduled Caste Lawyers, e-Samaj Kalyan). Both the junior and the senior advocate have to complete e-KYC for the scheme, so the senior must be available for their own verification and not only for a signature.

The printed form is addressed to the Deputy Director, Scheduled Caste Welfare, and opens its application details with the junior advocate's sanad number and sanad date (application form, Director of Scheduled Caste Welfare). Those two fields are what the office measures the two-year limit against, so an enrolment certificate that is hard to read, or that carries a date different from the Bar Council register, is worth sorting out before anything is uploaded.

Tracking splits in two here, and only the first half is online. Whether the application has been sanctioned shows on the portal's Your Application Status page (Your Application Status, e-Samaj Kalyan). Whether next month's stipend actually moves is settled at the District Deputy Director office on the practice certificate filed there, and no screen reports that half.

How winners are picked

Selection process

No merit list, no interview and no marks test is published for BCK-32. Eligibility is the entire filter, applied at the District Deputy Director office that receives the file, with the senior advocate's certificate doing the verification a test would otherwise do.

What is finite is the budget line. The department's Scheduled Caste Sub Plan statement books this stipend together with the Solanki loan under a single head it calls the doctor and lawyer loan subsidy scheme, and reports Rs 36.97 lakh disbursed to 726 beneficiaries across that whole head in 2019-20, against Rs 60.00 lakh provided for 2020-21 (Scheduled Caste Sub Plan 2020-21, Social Justice and Empowerment Department). Since the loan and the stipend share the head, that beneficiary figure is not a count of stipends. It is the size of the pot both draw on, and the reason a file that clears every condition can still wait on a sanctioned target.

Fine print

Terms & conditions

Three conditions shape how the training is arranged rather than who qualifies, and one of them has quietly narrowed. The portal's conditions require the training to be given at the district headquarters (Dr. P. G. Solanki Scheme for Stipend to Scheduled Caste Lawyers, e-Samaj Kalyan); the myScheme record still carries the amendment that also allowed taluka headquarters. The benefit is available to a person once, so a junior who has drawn it cannot return for a second term under a second senior. And the trainee cap is a real ceiling rather than a formality: a sought-after senior in a district may already be carrying a full roll when you approach them.

The practical order that follows: settle the senior first, get in writing how many juniors are already training under them, and check that the chamber you will actually sit in counts as the district headquarters for the office that will sanction the file.

Get help

Contact

The scheme is administered through the District Deputy Director offices for Scheduled Caste Welfare, and the district office holding your file is the one that can say where it has reached. Above them, the directorate keeps its head office on the 2nd floor of Block Number 4 at Dr. Jivraj Mehta Bhavan in Gandhinagar, and the number it publishes for that office is +91 79 23253229/35 (Director, Scheduled Caste Welfare, Government of Gujarat).

Source

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Frequently asked questions

From the official scheme FAQ (myScheme)

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Disclaimer

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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