My Child Failed and Is Repeating the Class. Does the Assistance Stop?

No. The Directorate's circular says in terms that students who failed or are repeating the same class must also be covered, and the module even carries a remark for it. What does stop the payment is long absence, which the same circular excludes (Directorate of Education circular).

What Is the Annual Amount of the JK Labour Scholarship Per Child?

That figure belongs to the Jammu and Kashmir board, which runs its own fund and publishes its own education slabs as annual amounts. Delhi's are written the other way round, as a rate per month with the yearly total shown beside it, which is one reason the two sets of numbers look nothing alike even though the scheme names read almost the same. A Delhi labour card buys the Delhi rates in the table above and nothing else.

Search Results Mix This Up With Other States' Construction Workers' Schemes. How Do I Tell Them Apart?

Every state and union territory runs its own Building and Other Construction Workers Welfare Board with its own fund and its own rate table, and the Maharashtra, Haryana and Karnataka versions surface under almost the same words as Delhi's. The test is the register, not the name. Rule 281 opens this assistance to children of members, meaning members of the Delhi Fund, and Rule 266 bars from that fund anyone who is already a member of another welfare fund established under law (Delhi BOCW Rules, 2002). A card issued by another state's board is therefore not a slower route to these rates. It is a different scheme.

What Are the Free Education Schemes Available in Delhi, and Is This One of Them?

This is not a fee waiver or an admission benefit. Schooling in a Delhi government school is already free of tuition; this assistance is cash paid on top of that place, and for those classes it is entered by the school and released through the Directorate of Education (Achievements of Board, DBOCWWB).

How Much Does the Delhi Labour Card Itself Cost, and Does It Pay a Fixed Sum for Education?

Taking one out costs Rs 20 in subscription and Rs 5 in registration fee (Registration, DBOCWWB), and keeping it alive costs Rs 20 a year (Renewal of Membership, DBOCWWB). It pays no fixed education sum by itself. It is the membership that makes a claim possible, and the amount then follows the class or course the child is in.

The Worker Registered This Year. Can a First-Year Engineering Student Claim Now?

Not in that first year. The scheme record puts the school-level slabs on the register from the date of registration and holds the graduation-level and higher slabs back until membership has run more than a year, so the same household can claim for a school-going sibling and not yet for the engineering student.

Can a Third Child Be Added if One of the Two Finishes School?

The cap is written as assistance up to two nominated children of a registered and live member, and the school module enforces it structurally: family IDs are assigned by mapping a family's wards across government schools, so a third entry cannot be slipped in at another school (Directorate of Education circular). Nothing the Board or the Directorate publishes describes substituting a third child once two have been covered, and a household in that position should put the question to the district labour office holding the registration rather than to the school.

Which Department of the NCT of Delhi administers this scheme?

This scheme is administered by the Labour Department, of the National Capital Territory of Delhi.

What is the URL for the registration of this scheme?

The applicants needs to register through clicking on the “Register” button on DBoCWWB website: https://dbocwwb.delhi.gov.in/cwapp/MyLoginPage?ReturnUrl=%2Fcwapp%2F

In case of change, how does the worker update their registered Mobile number on the website?

The facility to amend a worker's registered mobile number on the new DBoCWWB Website is still under process. However, workers who are migrating their membership from E-District Website to the new DBoCWWB Website have an option to update/revise their mobile numbers in the migration form.

What is a Construction Certificate/Labour Card?

As an enrolled member with BoCW Welfare Board, the worker will receive a Construction Certificate popularly known as the Labour Card. A Construction Certificate/Labour Card is a document with the worker’s personal details like DoB, Address, Registration Number, Date of Registration along with details of the next date of renewal. The Construction Certificate/Labour Card is to be shown when applying for any of the claims under the BoCW Act. It is important for the worker to renew their Construction Certificate/Labour Card in order to remain active members. This renewal must be undertaken on a yearly basis.

I am from another state but working as a construction worker in Delhi, can | get registered?

Yes, a Construction Worker native to any place in India, but working in Delhi can register with the DBoCWWB. The Construction Workers must own an Aadhar Card from any place in India and should have a Proof of Residence of staying in Delhi.

Can members in my family also register if they are all registered construction workers?

Yes, if there are more than one member in the family who are engaged in Construction Work, they can all register under the DBoCWWB.

Is there a specific age requirement for construction workers to be eligible for registration?

Yes, construction workers must be at least 18 years old but not more than 60 years old to be eligible for registration under Section 12 of the Main Act.

What is the duration of engagement required for construction workers to qualify for registration?

Construction workers must have engaged in building or other construction work for a minimum of 90 days during the preceding 12 months to qualify for registration under Section 12 of the Main Act.

What is the Registration/Renewal fee?

Registration : ₹ 25/-and Renewal : ₹ 20/- and ₹ 2/- per month (late fee).

How can one track the status of my Application on the Website?

To track, the worker can use the track feature available on the website's landing page. Choose the “Type of Service’ availed, i.e, whether the application was for Registration/Renewal/Claims/Amendment. In the white box, enter the application number mentioned in the acknowledgment receipt. Click Track Application now and a pop-up box will indicate the current status of the Application.

What consequences a worker may face if he/she does not renew the card?

If a worker does not renew the card, he will not be eligible for the benefit in future, but with the permission of the authorized officer, the membership can be returned with the outstanding amount, though this facility will not be available more than 2 time

Scholarship

Education Assistance for the Construction Workers(EDFTCW)

Q: Where can I find the URL of the Delhi Building and Other Construction Workers Welfare Board?

The URL of the Official Website of the Delhi Building and Other Construction Workers Welfare Board is: https://bocw.delhi.gov.in/.

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State/ UT

Delhi Building And Other Construction Workers Welfare Board Delhi myScheme record

Eligibility

The applicant should be a resident of Delhi.

Region

Delhi

Award

Cash

Deadline

Not published by the source

Overview

About EDFTCW

A live Delhi labour card is worth Rs 500 a month to a Class 3 child and Rs 10,000 a month to the same household's engineering student. For the younger one the parent never fills in a form: the school enters the claim, and the money reaches the family through the Directorate of Education.

The whole benefit rests on one short line in the Delhi Building and Other Construction Workers (Regulation of Employment and Conditions of Service) Rules, 2002. Rule 281 makes children of members eligible for education assistance and then hands the Board every practical decision behind it: how much, for which courses of study, and by when Form No. XLIII has to reach it (Delhi BOCW Rules, 2002). A family reading the rule therefore learns nothing it came for. The amounts sit in the Board's published scheme list, and the last date arrives once a year as a departmental circular.

That arrangement has been moving real money for years. The Board's own record puts 142.20 crore rupees disbursed as education assistance from March 2009 to 2019, to 2,89,744 wards of registered construction workers studying in Delhi government schools, the disbursement running through the Directorate of Education rather than over a labour office counter (Achievements of Board, DBOCWWB).

Two things follow from that, and they shape every section below. The money is attached to the parent's live membership, not to the student's marks. And a household reaches it through one of two completely different doors depending on whether the child is in school or past it.

Who runs it

Provider

Delhi Building And Other Construction Workers Welfare Board

State / UT Government

Labour Department · Delhi Building And Other Construction Workers Welfare Board

At a glance

Key details

Level	State/ UT
Scheme type	Not published by the source
Category	Education & Learning, Social welfare & Empowerment
Beneficiaries	Individual
Benefit type	Cash
Application mode	Online
Direct Benefit Transfer	No
Tags	Labour, Scholarship, Students, Construction Workers, Financial Assistance, School, LLB, Polytechnic, ITI, Graduation, Distant Learning, Open Learning
Source record	myScheme, 2026-07-08official-site· 2026-07-08

Calendar

Important dates

Rule 281 fixes no calendar at all. It requires the application within such time as the Board specifies, which means the date reaches families as a circular rather than as a standing annual deadline, and the scheme record carries no opening or closing date either.

The 2024-25 cycle shows the shape that takes, and that window is long closed. The Board sent the Directorate of Education the registration numbers of its workers under a letter it dates to 24/04/2025, and the Directorate's circular then required Heads of School to enter the data of wards in the module latest by 30/05/2025 for that year (Directorate of Education circular). Read those as the dates of a cycle already completed, not as a standing calendar. The pattern they set is a short entry window a few weeks into the following academic year, and the school office is where the current year's date is confirmed.

Who can apply

Eligibility criteria

The parent's side is the harder gate, because it is tested twice: once at registration and again, quietly, every year after.

Registration under Rule 266 is open to a building worker who has completed 18 years but not 60, is not a member of any other welfare fund set up under law, and has completed ninety days of service as a building worker in the year immediately preceding (Delhi BOCW Rules, 2002). Enrolment is cheap and deliberately so: Rs 20 as the year's subscription plus Rs 5 as the registration fee, against a form verified by the contractor, the employer or a registered construction trade union (Registration, DBOCWWB). A worker who is from another state but working in Delhi registers here on Delhi address proof; it is where the work is, not where the family is from, that decides the board.

The student's side is a course test, not a performance test. School classes, graduation, ITI, a polytechnic diploma, law and the technical courses in engineering, medicine and management are all named in the scheme record, and distance or open learning is admitted on a reduced rate rather than shut out.

The gate families most often miss sits between the two lists. School-level assistance runs from the date the worker registers, but the higher slabs, graduation upwards, only open once the membership has been held for more than a year. A father who registers in July can put a Class 6 child into that session's claim and cannot put a first-year engineering student into it, however genuine both are.

The applicant should be a resident of Delhi.
The applicant should be a Building/Construction Worker.
The applicant should be between 18 and 60 years.
The applicant should have served the Board for at least 90 days in a given year.
The applicant should be a children of the construction worker.
The applicant should be studying in any of the following classes: Class 1 to 8/ Class 9 to 10/ Class 11 to 12/ Graduation level/ ITI Course/ L.LB. Course/ Polytechnic Diploma/ Technical Course such as Engineering, Medical, MBA/ Open learning/ Distant learning.

Who cannot apply

Exclusions

There is no bar list attached to this scheme. What the Directorate of Education's circular sets out instead is three conditions under which an otherwise eligible name never reaches the payment file, and none of them is about the child's conduct or the family's income.

A student marked under long absence is not considered for payment, while a student who failed or is repeating the same class must still be included; the Directorate of Education states both in the same paragraph (Directorate of Education circular, Financial Assistance for the Wards of Construction Workers). Attendance, in other words, is what removes a child from this scheme. A repeated year is not.

The second disqualifier is administrative. The Aadhaar number and bank account details of the beneficiary have to be verified before the entry is made, and where they are missing the student's name simply does not appear in the payment report (Directorate of Education circular). Nobody rejects the family. The record just never reaches the payment stage.

The third is the count. The claim is capped at two nominated children of a live member, which is why the school module maps a family ID across schools at all.

Continuation

Renewal conditions

A Delhi labour card is a one-year document, and the education claim rides on it. Renewal costs Rs 20 a year, needs the same minimum of ninety days of construction work, and can be done at any of the Board's district offices (Renewal of Membership, DBOCWWB).

Letting it lapse is not a paperwork inconvenience. Rule 267 provides that a beneficiary who defaults on the contribution continuously for one year ceases to be a beneficiary of the Fund, and that membership may be resumed only on repayment of the arrears with a fine of two rupees a month, with that resumption allowed not more than twice (Delhi BOCW Rules, 2002). A family that has already used both resumptions has no third route back, and with the membership goes every child's claim.

The claim itself also repeats annually. Assistance is released after the year of study is completed, so each session is entered afresh against the year selected in the module rather than carried forward automatically.

What you get

Award & benefits

The rate is monthly, and the Board publishes the annual equivalent beside it.

Class or course	Per month	Per year
Class I to Class VIII	Rs 500	Rs 6,000
Class IX to Class X	Rs 700	Rs 8,400
Class XI to Class XII	Rs 1,000	Rs 12,000
Graduation level	Rs 3,000	Rs 36,000
ITI course	Rs 4,000	Rs 48,000
Polytechnic diploma, 3 years	Rs 5,000	Rs 60,000
Technical course such as Engineering, Medicine, MBA	Rs 10,000	Rs 1,20,000

The scheme record adds two rates the Board's public scheme list does not itemise, one for the five-year law course and a lower one for the three-year course, and it puts distance education and open learning at three quarters of the grant allowed for regular study at the same level. It also limits graduation-level assistance to one time for any graduation-level course.

The per-month column is the unit the rate is written in, not the rhythm the money arrives in. Assistance is released after the year of study has been completed, so a household budgeting a polytechnic admission fee in June is budgeting against a payment that settles the year it has already finished.

Sl. NoClass/LevelQuantum of Assistance (Per Month)1.Class 1 to 8₹ 500/-2.Class 9 to 10₹ 700/-3.Class 11 to 12₹ 1,000/- 4.Graduation level₹ 3,000/-5.ITI Course₹ 4,000/-6.L.LB. Course (5 Years)₹ 4,000/-7.L.LB Course (3 years)₹ 3,000/- 8.Polytechnic Diploma₹ 5,000/-9.Technical Course such as Engineering, Medical, MBA₹ 10,000/-10. Distance education/ open learning school/ College/ private study and obtains certificate from recognized School /College /institution75% of the grant allowed for regular study. Financial assistance will be provided only one time for any graduation level course.
Note: Scholarships are provided upto 2 nominated children of Registered and Live Member of the Board, after the completion of year of study.
Financial assistance for 1, 2 and 3 above shall be available to members from the date of their registration with the Board.
Financial assistance for 4 to 10 above shall be available to members who have membership for more than one year.
In case a Beneficiary dies his/her children will be still given financial assistance upto Class-VIII.
In case a beneficiary dies, and she has been a member for more than five years, then his/her children will get financial education for completing their schooling.
In case a beneficiary dies, and she/he has been a member for more than five years, then his/her children will get financial education for completing their schooling.
In case a beneficiary dies and his/ her children are already getting financial assistance for any course (accepted by the Board), then the assistance will continue for the normal duration of that course subject to normal conditions like attendance etc.

What to prepare

Documents required

The record lists three items for the claim itself, and the school route deliberately lists fewer.

For a child in a Delhi government school, the worker's passbook or registration card is the basis on which the entry is made, and the circular is explicit that no other document is to be asked of the student or the parent and no other form is to be filled (Directorate of Education circular). A school asking for an income certificate, a bonafide letter or a stamped affidavit for this scheme is asking for something the Directorate has told it not to ask for.

For a claim filed with the Board rather than through a school, the prescribed application is Form No. XLIII, Financial Assistance for Education under Rule 281, which the Board publishes for download on its forms page (Forms, DBOCWWB).

Institutional Identity Card of the Student.

Bank Passbook Copy/ Copy of Cancelled Cheque.

Aadhar Card of the child.

Step by step

How to apply

Which door a family uses depends entirely on where the child studies.

Through the school, for Class 1 to 12 in a Delhi government school. The Board sends the Directorate of Education the registration numbers of its workers, and the Head of School enters the ward details in the school plant module, under the entry form for wards of construction workers, using the worker's unique ID. A maximum of two wards can be entered, and the year is chosen from a drop box so that the correct session is claimed (Directorate of Education circular). Where a registration number is genuinely eligible but does not appear in the module, the circular routes the case back through the Head of School to the Planning Branch rather than to the parent.

Through the Board, for everything else. Registration, renewal and scheme applications now run on the Board's own portal at dbocwwb.delhi.gov.in. Workers who were enrolled earlier came in through the Delhi e-District portal, which is where online registration and renewal for construction workers were first opened (Registration, DBOCWWB), and those memberships are carried across on a migration form rather than re-registered from scratch.

Checking Where the Claim Has Reached

The Board's portal carries a track facility on its landing page. The worker chooses the type of service the application was filed under, registration, renewal, claim or amendment, and enters the application number printed on the acknowledgement, which returns the current stage of that application (DBOCWWB FAQs). A registered worker signed in to the portal can also see the application history against the membership.

School-route families have nothing to track this way, and should not read that as a lost claim. The Directorate's circular ends by saying that payment release information will be issued in due course and that claims are not to be submitted until those directions come. For Class 1 to 12, the school's entry is the record, and the Head of School is the person who can confirm it went in.

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How winners are picked

Selection process

There is no ranking here. Rule 281 sets an eligibility test and delegates the rest, so a child who fits a listed course and whose parent holds live membership is not competing with other children for a fixed pot.

The scrutiny happens at the data-entry keyboard instead. The Directorate makes the Head of School answerable both for leaving out eligible students and for including ineligible ones, and the module will not accept a submission until a remark is chosen from a drop box recording whether the card holder's name tallies with the school record, tallies only after the beneficiary was confirmed, or whether the student repeated the class (Directorate of Education circular). That drop box exists because names on a labour card and names in a school register disagree often enough to have stalled an earlier session.

Beyond that, the rules publish no marks bar, no income ceiling and no scoring rule for this assistance.

Fine print

Terms & conditions

The binding terms are the Board's, not the rule's, and they have moved before. The Board revised entitlements across its welfare schemes with effect from 10.02.2012 and again from 04.03.2016 (Achievements of Board, DBOCWWB), so the rates a family was told about by a relative a few years ago are not necessarily the rates in force.

Three conditions in the scheme record are worth reading for what they mean rather than what they say. Assistance is limited to two nominated children of a registered and live member, so the third child in a household has no claim under this head. It is paid after the year of study is completed, which makes it reimbursement rather than fee support. And the higher slabs need more than a year of membership behind them, which is the single most common reason a genuinely eligible technical or graduation student is turned away in their first year.

The record also carries continuation provisions for the death of a beneficiary, and those depend on how long the membership had run.

Get help

Contact

The Board sits at A-Wing, 7th Floor, Vikas Bhavan-II, Civil Lines, Delhi-110054, reachable on 011-23813773 and 23813845, and it lists a separate district labour office for every Delhi district with the police station areas each one covers (Contact Us, DBOCWWB). Registration and renewal are district-office work; use the district your site or residence falls under rather than the headquarters.

For a school-side entry that has gone wrong, the circular is issued by the Planning Branch of the Directorate of Education at the Old Patrachar Building, Timarpur, Delhi-110054, and it asks Heads of School, not parents, to raise module problems with that branch by email (Directorate of Education circular).

Source

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References

Sources

Delhi BOCW Rules, 2002 – bocw.delhi.gov.in
Directorate of Education circular, Financial Assistance for the Wards of Construction Workers – edudel.nic.in
dbocwwb.delhi.gov.in – dbocwwb.delhi.gov.in
User Manual (Registration) – drive.google.com
myScheme (Government of India) – myscheme.gov.in