Can a Parent Ask for This Money to Fix Their Child's School?

Not directly. The grant goes only to the school's education committee (guideline), so a parent who notices a damaged classroom can raise it with that committee or the head of school, and the committee decides whether to propose the work. Even the authorisation letter on myScheme's document list comes from the committee, not from a parent (myScheme).

What Does Grant-in-Aid Mean Here?

In the Directorate's usage, grant-in-aid is money released to an institution or body that then spends it itself: aided schools, for example, receive grants for salaries and Maintenance Grants for repair, maintenance and day-to-day working (Proactive Disclosure Manual, Chapter 4). This scheme applies that idea to a government building, putting the repair money in the committee's hands instead of sending the job through a works department.

Is the Grant Still Being Funded?

None of the papers cited here announces that the scheme has closed, but the money trail thins out. The 2019-20 memorandum still put Rs 0.01 lakh against the committees' head while saying GSIDC now carries out the repairs the committees used to do, and the 2025-26 memorandum lists no committee head among the School Education heads. The Directorate's schemes page still posts the guideline, so a committee should ask the Directorate whether the grant is being sanctioned before drafting a proposal.

Who Repairs Goa's Government School Buildings Now?

GSIDC and the Public Works Department, going by the Directorate's own description of its Administration III Section (Proactive Disclosure Manual, Chapter 2). In South Goa, a District Mineral Foundation project page also records repairs and renovation by GSIDC at GPS Codli, GPS Saton and GHS Kale under the Foundation's programme for mining-affected areas.

Is This the Same as the Samagra Shiksha School Grant?

No. Samagra Shiksha is the centrally sponsored scheme for school education that took in Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan from 2018-19, and in July 2018 the Press Information Bureau reported its composite school grant raised to Rs 25,000 to Rs 1 lakh, allocated on the basis of school enrolment (Press Information Bureau). The Goa grant is state money paid per repair work to the school's committee, and works already funded under Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan are kept out of it (guideline). Goa's Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan scheme sheet also carried a Maintenance Grant for existing school buildings that only a VEC or SMC could spend (Goa Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan schemes), a different line from this one.

What is the purpose of the scheme?

The scheme aims to provide timely financial assistance for minor repairs to government school buildings, especially before the monsoon season, to ensure they remain safe and functional.

Who is eligible for the scheme?

All government school buildings requiring urgent minor repairs are eligible. The School Education Committee (SEC) or Urban Education Committee (UEC) must identify the need and submit a proposal.

What type of assistance is provided?

The scheme provides a grant covering 75% of the estimated repair costs, with a ceiling limit of ₹ 50,000/- per work.

How can we apply for the grant?

Follow these steps: Identify the necessary repairs. Prepare a detailed proposal with cost estimates. Submit the proposal to the Directorate of Education. Await scrutiny and approval. Upon approval, receive the sanctioned grant. Execute the repair work. Submit a completion report to the Directorate of Education.

How long does the approval process take?

There is no specified time limit for the disposal of applications at various levels.

How are the funds disbursed?

The sanctioned grant is disbursed through cheques.

Are there any schemes that overlap with this one?

Works funded under the Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan Scheme are not eligible for this grant.

What should be done after the repairs are completed?

Submit a completion report to the Directorate of Education, detailing the repairs made and the final expenditure incurred.

Who should be contacted for more information?

For further details or clarifications, contact the Directorate of Education.

Scholarship

Grant-in-aid Scheme to Village Education Committees/Urban Education Committees for minor repairs of Government School buildings(GSVEC)

Cash

State/ UT

Goa State Government Goa myScheme record

Eligibility

All Government school buildings that need urgent minor repairs are eligible.

Region

Goa

Award

Cash

Deadline

Not published by the source

Overview

About GSVEC

Under the Grant-in-aid Scheme to Village Education Committees/Urban Education Committees for minor repairs of Government School buildings, the cheque goes to a school's education committee and never to a household. Goa's Director of Education sanctions the grant so that the committee can get an urgent minor repair done on a government school building, particularly before the monsoon. A student or parent has no application to make and no amount to claim under it.

What a family gains is indirect: a school building put right sooner than the usual works route allows. Goa's budget memoranda for 2018-19 and 2019-20, though, say the pre-monsoon repairs the committees used to carry out are now done by GSIDC, the Goa State Infrastructure Development Corporation (Explanatory Memorandum 2018-19, Explanatory Memorandum 2019-20).

Goa's Directorate of Education drew up this grant because the normal way of fixing a government school, through the Public Works Department, was too slow for repairs that could not wait for the rains. The objective in the Directorate's Administration III guideline says the PWD route results in delay and takes much time to execute the works, so small urgent jobs were handed to the local education committee with money attached. The Directorate's schemes summary on the Goa government portal gives the aim as repairing buildings at the right time "to prevent calamity and avoid inconvenience to the students within the ceiling of Rs. 50,000".

The applicant is always a committee. The guideline's title names Village Education Committees and Urban Education Committees, while its operative lines say the School Education Committee or Urban Education Committee identifies the building and submits the proposal of works to the Directorate (guideline).

What the Budget Papers Show

The scheme is still listed on myScheme and its guideline is still posted by the Directorate, but Goa's annual Explanatory Memoranda on the schemes in the state budget tell a thinner story. The committees' head, 2202/01/106/07 under Demand No. 34 (School Education), carried no more than Rs 0.50 lakh in any memorandum below, and the wording moves between the committees and GSIDC before settling on GSIDC in 2018-19 (Explanatory Memorandum 2014-15, Explanatory Memorandum 2018-19):

Budget year	Budget Estimate for the committees' head	How the memorandum describes the work
2014-15	Rs 0.50 lakh	Grant-in-aid for urgent minor repairs before the monsoon; because the PWD route caused delay, all repairs of government schools, higher secondaries and colleges to be undertaken through GSIDC
2015-16	Rs 0.50 lakh	Only minor pre-monsoon repairs are carried out by the committees
2016-17	Rs 0.01 lakh	Minor pre-monsoon repairs are carried out by the committees
2018-19	Rs 0.01 lakh	The repairs "were being carried out" by the committees and are now carried out by GSIDC
2019-20	Rs 0.01 lakh	The same wording as 2018-19
2024-25 and 2025-26	No entry	The 2202/01/106 heads listed are /01, /02, /04 and /06, followed by the Samagra Shiksha heads; no committee head appears

The Directorate's current Proactive Disclosure Manual under the RTI Act points the same way. It gives the Administration III Section the construction, upgradation and maintenance of all government school buildings through GSIDC and the PWD, and lists pre-monsoon repairs and the allotment of funds to GSIDC among that section's desk duties, with no mention of grants to education committees.

Who runs it

Provider

Goa State Government

State / UT Government

Education Department

At a glance

Key details

Level	State/ UT
Scheme type	Not published by the source
Category	Transport & Infrastructure, Education & Learning
Beneficiaries	Government Organisation
Benefit type	Cash
Application mode	Offline
Direct Benefit Transfer	No
Tags	School, Building, Repair, Village, Urban
Source record	myScheme, 2026-07-08official-site· 2026-07-08

Calendar

Important dates

No application window or closing date is published, and the guideline gives no processing time. The scheme's logic is seasonal, because its stated purpose is to finish urgent repairs before the monsoon, but no official calendar fixes a date by which a proposal must reach the Directorate. The only dated record is the budget trail in the Explanatory Memoranda, which ends with no committee head in the 2024-25 and 2025-26 editions.

Who can apply

Eligibility criteria

Eligibility attaches to a building, not to a person. The guideline opens the grant to every government school building that needs urgent minor repairs, and the committee attached to that school decides which building and which works to propose.

Aided schools, committees and colleges each sit differently under it:

Government buildings only. A private unaided school has no route in, and an aided school is funded another way: the Directorate gives aided high schools and higher secondary schools Maintenance Grants for repair, maintenance and day-to-day working (Proactive Disclosure Manual, Chapter 4).
The committee is the proposer. The guideline has the committee identify the building and send the proposal, and myScheme's document list asks for the committee's authorisation letter (myScheme).
Colleges appear only in the budget wording. The guideline speaks of government school buildings, while the memoranda describe the head as covering buildings of government schools, higher secondaries and colleges (Explanatory Memorandum 2016-17).

All Government school buildings that need urgent minor repairs are eligible.

Who cannot apply

Exclusions

The only carve-out in the guideline concerns works for which funds were allotted under Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan, which it places outside the ceiling; myScheme reads that as making such works ineligible. Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan was taken into Samagra Shiksha from 2018-19 (Press Information Bureau), yet the guideline still names only the older programme, so how the exclusion treats a building repaired under Samagra Shiksha is for the Directorate to settle. The guideline draws no line between a minor and a major repair.

Continuation

Renewal conditions

A sanction covers one proposed work and nothing about it recurs: the guideline neither limits how many works a school may propose in a year nor promises a repeat grant for the same building.

What you get

Award & benefits

An approved work can be funded up to Rs 50,000: the Directorate's schemes summary has the Village/Urban Education Committees carrying out minor repair works of schools "up to a ceiling of Rs.50,000/- per work".

The guideline has the Director of Education sanction the grant after scrutiny, pay it by cheque and call the sanctioned sum a first instalment, without saying when, or on what proof, the rest follows (guideline).

Set against that ceiling, the state's own provision was small. The head carried Rs 0.50 lakh in 2014-15, which equals one work at the Rs 50,000 ceiling, and Rs 0.01 lakh in the 2016-17, 2018-19 and 2019-20 memoranda (Explanatory Memorandum 2014-15, Explanatory Memorandum 2016-17, Explanatory Memorandum 2018-19, Explanatory Memorandum 2019-20).

Sanctioned to the extent of 75% of the estimated cost expenditure of the works as the first instalment per work for the execution of minor works to the school buildings.
The ceiling limit is ₹ 50,000/-, other than for the works for which funds have been allotted under the Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan Scheme.
The payment towards the expenditure is made through cheques.

What to prepare

Documents required

The guideline itself asks for nothing beyond the committee's proposal of the works to be attended. The only fuller checklist is myScheme's, and every paper on it describes either the building or the committee; it adds evidence the guideline never mentions, such as photographs of the damage and a building condition report (myScheme). Neither source publishes a proposal format or says who should prepare the cost estimate.

A detailed proposal document.

Identification details of the school and SEC/UEC.

Authorization letter from SEC/UEC.

Building condition report.

Photographs of the areas needing repair.

Cost estimates and quotations.

Step by step

How to apply

The committee does the applicant's work: it inspects the school, picks the building and the repairs that cannot wait, costs them, and sends the proposal of works to the Directorate of Education (guideline). The file is a paper one, delivered to the Directorate at Alto Porvorim (myScheme, Proactive Disclosure Manual, Chapter 2).

Inside the Directorate, government school buildings sit with the Administration III Section, whose remit covers maintenance of those buildings through GSIDC and the PWD (Proactive Disclosure Manual, Chapter 2). Given what the budget papers say, the first question for that section is whether the grant is open at all this year, or whether the repair will be passed to GSIDC. Asking before any quotation is paid for spares the committee costing a job the Directorate may route elsewhere.

Where a Proposal Goes After It Is Handed In

No portal records where a proposal stands, so its status is chased with the Directorate itself. The guideline enters "N.A." against the time limit for disposing of an application at various levels.

The nearest yardstick is the Directorate's general service norms in its RTI manual: seven days for matters of grant-in-aid and allotment of funds, subject to availability of funds, and 7 to 30 days for administrative approval and expenditure sanction of minor or major works (Proactive Disclosure Manual, Chapter 4). Those norms are written for the Directorate as a whole rather than for this grant, but once they have passed, the committee has a fair basis for asking the Administration III Section whether its file has reached the Director for sanction.

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How winners are picked

Selection process

Schools do not compete for this grant under the published rules; the Director of Education scrutinises each proposal on its own and sanctions it or not (guideline). No scoring rule, order of priority between buildings or definition of "urgent" is published, so the only tests on paper are a government school building, a repair that is minor and urgent, and a work not already funded under Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan.

Fine print

Terms & conditions

The published conditions are few: the grant is tied to the work proposed and sanctioned, it is paid by cheque, and works funded under Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan are kept apart (guideline). myScheme adds that the committee reports completion, with the final expenditure, to the Directorate (myScheme). The guideline says the scheme was notified in the Official Gazette and that a copy is enclosed, but the version on the Directorate's website ends without it, so the notified terms on accounts, audit, unspent money and the balance instalment are not public.

Get help

Contact

Proposals and questions go to the Directorate of Education, Alto Porvorim, Goa, on 0832-2416023 or 0832-2416033, or by email to dir-educ.goa@nic.in (Proactive Disclosure Manual, Chapter 2). Ask for the Administration III Section, whose desk duties include pre-monsoon repairs and the allotment of funds to GSIDC.

Source

Official links

Guidelines myScheme (Government of India)

Questions

GSVEC – FAQ

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.

References

Sources

Explanatory Memorandum 2018-19 – dpse.goa.gov.in
Administration III guideline – education.goa.gov.in
schemes summary on the Goa government portal – goa.gov.in
myScheme – myscheme.gov.in
Press Information Bureau – pib.gov.in
District Mineral Foundation project page – dmf.goa.gov.in