Financial Assistance for Coaching- Haryana Labour Welfare Board(FAC-HLWB)

Overview

About FAC-HLWB

Most coaching schemes examine the student. This one examines three parties at once, and a claim fails if any of them falls short: the worker who applies, the candidate who is studying, and the coaching institute collecting the fee.

The money covers two very different situations. One is coaching for an entrance examination to a professional course. The other is coaching for the main examination of the UPSC or the HPSC, and it opens only after the candidate has cleared the preliminary stage of one of those two examinations. The Haryana Labour Welfare Board prints both ceilings, in Hindi, on its own scheme page for the coaching benefit, and the civil services one is by far the larger.

The same page fixes a minimum service period of one year for the applicant worker, a maximum monthly salary of Rs 27,000, and a floor of 60 per cent marks in the qualifying examination. The national scheme listing for this benefit carries a lower salary ceiling than the Board's page does. The Board is the body that sanctions the claim and its page is its own statement of the rule, so a worker sitting between the two figures should put the question to the Labour Welfare Officer before committing to a coaching fee on the strength of either.

The Board is a contributory body. Its online services run under the Punjab Labour Welfare Fund Act, 1965 and reach workers of industrial and commercial establishments in Haryana whose employer has been paying their welfare fund contribution, which is why the claim form spends as much space on the employer as on the student, as the department's own process note for welfare scheme applications sets out.

Who runs it

Provider

At a glance

Key details

Calendar

Important dates

There is no season for this claim. The Board publishes no opening date, no last date and no annual window for the coaching benefit.

What is fixed by date is the contribution the claim rests on. It has to be deposited by 31 December each year, and a late deposit carries interest at 12 per cent a year on the amount due, per the department's frequently asked questions.

The department's own pages disagree on how long a claim should take to decide. The FAQ answers 90 days for every scheme of this Board, while the notification of services under the right to service law puts this coaching service at 60 days. The notification is the instrument that names the service in its own words, so a worker chasing a delayed file is on firmer ground quoting that one, which is both the shorter figure and the service-specific one.

Who can apply

Eligibility criteria

The applicant is the worker, not the student. He or she has to be employed in an industrial or commercial establishment in Haryana, registered with the Board, one year into service at least, and drawing a salary within the ceiling. The Board's own form also leaves room for the worker in person: its coaching column is headed for the children of the applicant worker or the worker himself.

"Salary" has a precise meaning here, and it is not the basic. The prescribed form asks for the worker's total monthly salary for the month immediately before the date of application, allowances included, and then asks the establishment's authorised officer to certify that same figure over a stamp and signature on the coaching scheme form the Board publishes. A pay slip that leaves out allowances does not help the applicant; it simply disagrees with the certificate filed behind it.

What the Board asks of the candidate is shorter and harder to argue with: at least 60 per cent in the qualifying examination, and no job and no self-employment of the candidate's own.

The more useful way to read the conditions is by who has to prove each one, because two of them nobody in the family can prove at all.

Who cannot apply

Exclusions

The national listing publishes no exclusion list for this scheme, but the Board's own page carries two hard ones. A worker's child who is in a job or self-employed is not covered at all, whatever the marks. And a worker who obtains the benefit on a false student certificate loses it twice over: the amount already paid is taken back, and that worker is shut out of the scheme in future, in the Board's own words on its scheme detail page.

The undertaking that travels with the form is blunter still. The worker declares that the scheme's conditions have been read in full and that nothing has been concealed, and accepts that misleading or concealing from the Board can attract proceedings under sections 182, 415, 417 and 420 of the Indian Penal Code, as printed on the undertaking page of the coaching form.

Continuation

Renewal conditions

There is no renewal application here and no continuing award to keep alive from one year to the next. What the Board fixes instead is a per family ceiling inside a financial year: coaching assistance is payable for up to three girls and two boys of a worker in that year, as its scheme page puts it.

Two questions on the paperwork police the repeat claim. The form asks the worker outright whether the benefit now being applied for has been taken before, and for the full details if it has. The establishment, on its own verification page, certifies separately that the worker has submitted only one application for this benefit, in the Board's coaching form.

What you get

Award & benefits

The payment follows the fee receipt rather than a flat grant, which is why the receipt issued by the coaching institute sits among the Board's compulsory papers rather than the optional ones. A candidate coached free of charge, or at an institute that issues no receipt, has nothing to claim on.

The two tracks are not alternatives a family can pick between. The entrance-examination track is for coaching towards admission to a professional course. The civil services track is triggered by an event, the clearing of the UPSC or HPSC preliminary examination, and pays towards the main examination that follows. Both ceilings are printed on the Board's scheme page, which is the page to read before deciding what a coaching fee is worth committing to.

One clause in the undertaking says how the money is treated after it leaves the Board. If more is sanctioned than was due, the worker authorises recovery through the establishment, which deducts the excess from his salary and sends it to the Board by bank draft or cheque drawn in favour of the Welfare Commissioner, Haryana. The recovery route runs back through the employer, the same relationship that established the entitlement in the first place, as the worker's and the establishment's undertakings both record.

• An amount of ₹20,000/- or 75% of the coaching fee (whichever is less) will be payable to the children of workers for coaching in entrance examinations in professional courses.
• An amount of ₹1,00,000/- will be provided to the children of workers for coaching to prepare for the main examination on passing the Preliminary Examination of UPSC and HPSC.

What to prepare

Documents required

Format is where most of the guesswork usually sits, and the Board has removed it by publishing a sample copy of every paper this claim needs. The coaching scheme's own page carries six of them, covering the salary slip, the employer certificate, the employee certificate, the education certificate, the bill or ticket receipt and the ration card, ESI card or Parivar Pehchan Patra, alongside an undertaking the site generates for this scheme. All of it sits on the scheme detail page.

Two of those papers have to come from the coaching institute and they are not the same document. One is the receipt for the coaching fee. The other is a certificate that the student is attending the classes regularly and is continuing to study there. A family that files only the receipt has answered the money question and left the attendance question open.

Step by step

How to apply

The worker files on the Labour Department's own portal, and the sequence is fixed. An Aadhaar number entered on hrylabour.gov.in triggers a one time password to the registered mobile number, and that creates the login. The worker then builds a profile carrying the family details, with the Aadhaar number of each family member, uploads documents in the prescribed format and size, and submits.

None of that leads anywhere until the employer's side is in order and the Board has cleared the worker. Contribution has to have been paid for him by an establishment already on the portal, and the schemes he qualifies for surface in his login only once the Board's verification is done, per the department's process flow for welfare scheme applications.

A worker who has never used the portal registers first. The department's help pages say a contributing worker can register online or through a common service centre, on the Parivar Pehchan Patra identifier, the Aadhaar card and a passport size photograph.

Antyodaya SARAL is the state's usual counter for labour schemes, and for this one it is currently not the route. The SARAL page for Financial Assistance for Coaching, Haryana Labour Welfare Board carries the line "Service Under Modification" where the form should be, and in the Board's right to service notification this coaching row is the one education entry sent to the Labour Department portal alone, while the uniform, scholarship, sports and cultural rows beside it name SARAL as well.

Checking the Claim on the Labour Department Portal

There is no separate status page to hunt for. The department's process note says the worker can follow the application in real time from the same login, with the updates repeated to the registered mobile number and the email on file, and that where an objection is raised the worker can add the further documents the file needs from inside that login. The same login carries the worker's contribution record and unpaid accumulations, which is the screen worth opening before a claim goes in rather than after it comes back.

How winners are picked

Selection process

This is a verification scheme, not a competition. Nobody is shortlisted, ranked or interviewed; a claim that satisfies the conditions is a claim to be sanctioned, and everything in between is checking.

That checking is split between two desks that never meet. The establishment's authorised officer certifies the employment, the joining date, the post, the salary and the contribution deposited since joining, and signs it under the establishment's stamp. The Board runs its own verification of the worker before the scheme list opens to him at all, so a worker can be inside the fund and still have nothing to apply against until that clears, as the department's process note sets out the sequence.

Fine print

Terms & conditions

The condition a family cannot influence is the one attached to the coaching institute, and the Board sets it out separately from the eligibility conditions on its scheme detail page. Beyond the track record in the table above, the institute has to have been paying service tax or GST to the government for at least three years of running the classes, and it has to have cleared its own labour welfare fund dues to this same Board.

That last one is worth reading twice. The Board is asking whether the coaching centre has paid the Board. A centre that has not can be a perfectly good place to study and still leave a family holding a receipt this scheme will not settle, and no document the worker files afterwards can cure it. It is a question for the counter before the fee is paid.

Get help

Contact

The Board sits apart from the Labour Department headquarters in Chandigarh, at Bays No. 29-30, Pocket 2, Sector 4, Panchkula. Its general numbers are a landline on 0172-2560015 and a toll free line on 1800-180-4818, with the SARAL helpline separately on 0172-3968400, all at the foot of the Board's scheme pages.

For this scheme specifically the coaching form carries a different line on its letterhead, 0172-2560226, with the Board's email hlwb51hry@gmail.com beside it. Escalation has a named route rather than a general grievance desk. The Board's notified list puts the Labour Welfare Officer at the bottom of that route for a coaching claim, the Deputy Labour Commissioner (Welfare) one step above him and the Welfare Commissioner at the top.

Source

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Frequently asked questions

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