Grant of Financial Assistance for Purchase of Textbooks/Notebooks to School-Going Children of Industrial Workers/Employees (GLWB)(GFAPTNSGCIWE-GLWB)

Overview

About GFAPTNSGCIWE-GLWB

Scheme I of the Goa Labour Welfare Board pays Rs 1,200 for a child in Class I or II and Rs 1,800 for a child in Class III or IV, towards the cost of textbooks and notebooks, under the Scheme I guidelines. The money does not go from the board straight to the family. The guidelines hand it to the worker through the management of the head of the school the child attends, which makes the school a party to the grant from the first form to the final payment.

The applicant is the parent, not the child: a regular employee of an industrial establishment in Goa with six months of continuous service and wages within Rs 20,000, whose child is in Class I to IV at a recognised or approved school (Scheme I guidelines). Everything is done on paper, and the form has to be with the board's Secretary by 30 September; for the current round the state's press note of 18 June 2026 gives September 30, 2026.

Who runs it

Provider

At a glance

Key details

Calendar

Important dates

Clause D(i) fixes the calendar in a single line: the form has to be in the Secretary's hands on or before 30 September, every year (Scheme I guidelines).

For the current round the date is 30 September 2026. A Department of Information and Publicity press note dated 18 June 2026, "GLWB Implements Schemes for Industrial Workers", names the textbook and notebook grant first among five education schemes whose last date of submission is September 30, 2026 (GLWB press note, 18 June 2026). It does not name the academic year the round covers.

Earlier notices kept to the same day. A notice dated 19 June 2017 set 30 September 2017 for the 2017-2018 round (Goa government notice), and a Department of Information and Publicity release of 4 July 2023 named 30 September 2023 (DIP press release), each time for this grant together with the uniform grant, the scholarship and two student incentive schemes.

Neither the guidelines nor those notices give a date by which the grant is paid.

Who can apply

Eligibility criteria

The guidelines test the parent's job and pay, and the child's class; they ask nothing about marks, attendance or age. Section B of the Scheme I guidelines sets four conditions: regular employment with at least six months of continuous service on the date of application, wages or salary not above Rs 20,000, no supervisory or managerial post drawing Rs 1,600 or more a month, and a child studying in Class I to IV in a recognised or approved school.

The Rs 1,600 figure in clause B(ii) concerns supervisors and managers only. It is not a pay limit for anyone else, whose test is the Rs 20,000 in B(iii), and it is peculiar to Scheme I: the board's uniform guidelines carry no such clause, and its scholarship regulations bar supervision and management with no pay figure attached (Scheme II guidelines; Scheme III regulations). The employer's certificate on the last page of the Scheme I PDF does most of the excluding in practice. It describes the post as skilled or unskilled, manual or clerical labour other than casual or contract and otherwise than in a position of supervision or management, a description no supervisor fits at any salary.

Clause B(iii) gives the Rs 20,000 limit without saying over what period, where the uniform guidelines say per month. The board's June 2017 notice states the limit for its schemes as Rs 20,000 per month, and the employer's certificate on the Scheme I form records monthly pay, counting all allowances and perquisites but not bonus.

Who cannot apply

Exclusions

Scheme I has one written exclusion, and it is worded badly. The last sentence of clause B(iv) in the guidelines reads "Slates / Text Books /Notes Books by the Government of Goa every year are not entitled for the benefit", with the words that would say who receives them missing. Read with its intent, it keeps out a child who is already given slates, textbooks or notebooks by the Government of Goa each year.

The matching clause in the uniform guidelines, printed in full, speaks of children in Government schools who already get their uniform from the state (Scheme II guidelines). The textbook clause, as printed, names no type of school, so whether the state's books rule out a particular child is worth settling with the school and the board before the form goes in.

Clause D(ii) adds a procedural bar: a Scheme I form that is incomplete, lacks its supporting documents or misses the due date is liable to be rejected without further correspondence.

Continuation

Renewal conditions

Scheme I has no renewal. Each academic year is a new claim on a new form, carrying a school certificate for that year (Scheme I form). What changes from one claim to the next is the child's class, and with it the rate: moving from Class II into Class III lifts the grant from Rs 1,200 to Rs 1,800, and after Class IV the grant ends.

What you get

Award & benefits

The amount is fixed by class alone. Family income decides who is selected, not how much a selected child gets.

Each charter figure is exactly half of the guidelines' figure for the same class, so under both the Class III and IV rate is half as much again as the Class I and II rate. The FAQ below explains where the lower figures still turn up.

The route the money takes is the scheme's most unusual feature. Clause C(iii) of the guidelines disburses the assistance to the worker "through the management of the Head of the Institutions" where the child studies, and myScheme does not mark it as a direct benefit transfer scheme. By contrast, the board's Class V onwards scholarship goes by ECS straight into the parent's bank account (Scheme III regulations). The Scheme I guidelines do not say whether the school passes the money on in cash, by cheque or by transfer.

The grant is meant for the child's textbooks and notebooks "where necessary", in the guidelines' own qualifier. The form asks for no bill, and nothing in it requires the worker to show what was bought.

• Financial Assistance (based on the child's Level of Education)
• Purchase of Textbooks / Notebooks.
• Through the management of the Head of the Institutions where their children are studying.

What to prepare

Documents required

Behind myScheme's seven-item list sits one application in three pieces, filled in by the worker, the school and the employer (Scheme I guidelines and form). Here is what each listed item turns into on paper:

• Proof of employment, service and salary: the employer's Part II certificate, signed with the establishment's seal, giving the worker's serial number in its register, the category of work, more than six months of continuous service and the monthly pay in figures and words.
• School enrolment and the institution's certificate: one certificate signed and sealed by the head of the school, stating the standard, the academic year and the child's result.
• Caste certificate: only when the worker answers yes at item 10 on SC, ST or OBC status, issued by the competent authority.
• Disability certificate: only when the child is physically handicapped, from a Government Medical Officer (item 9).
• Income: item 4 of the form asks for the average monthly income and occupation of the worker and the spouse, and the total from all sources. The guidelines do not name an authority for a separate income certificate.

The worker also signs a declaration on Part I, covered under Terms & Conditions.

Step by step

How to apply

The form is the Scheme-1 PDF on the Labour Department's website, listed on a page whose heading reads "Minimum Wages" even though it holds all the board's scheme documents (Goa Labour Welfare Board schemes list). The form itself is headed "Application for issue of text book/note books" and is addressed to the Secretary of the board in Panaji.

Clause D(i) of the guidelines lets the signed form go in through the worker's employer or through the head of the child's school, to reach the Secretary on or before 30 September. myScheme lists offline as the only mode.

The press note of 18 June 2026 words the route more narrowly: workers "have to apply through their employers" to the Secretary's office at Shram Shakti Bhavan, 4th Floor, Patto Plaza, Panaji, by September 30, 2026 (GLWB press note, 18 June 2026). The press note does not replace clause D(i), which still names the head of the school as a route, so a worker whose employer cannot forward the textbook form in time can hand it to the school instead.

Tracking a Scheme I Claim

The Scheme I form carries no acknowledgement and no application number, so a claim is identified by the child's name, class and academic year as the school's certificate gives them. Where to ask depends on the question:

1. Has the grant been paid? Ask the school office first. Under clause C(iii) of the guidelines a sanctioned grant reaches the worker through the management of the head of the school, so the money passes through the school before it reaches you. If the school also forwarded the form, it can tell you when the form left for Panaji; if the employer forwarded it, that date sits with the employer's office.
2. Did the board receive it, or turn it down? The board takes calls on 0832-2437083 and mail at glwbpanaji@gmail.com, per its contact page.
3. Do you need the answer in writing? File an RTI application with the board's Public Information Officer, its Administrative Officer in Panaji (RTI officers page). The board's Public Grievance page carries only a "Coming Soon" notice.

How winners are picked

Selection process

Clause C(i) of the guidelines ranks eligible claims on three rules: the lowest income of the parents, preference for students in higher classes, and priority for workers with not more than two children. The higher-class rule works in the same direction as the rates, so the Class III and IV children who carry the larger Rs 1,800 grant are also the ones preferred. The guidelines fix no number of grants and do not say how the three rules are weighed against one another.

The only published measure of take-up is the board's payout record for Scheme I:

From 2015-2016 to 2023-2024 the count stayed between 572 and 755 a year, before the jump to 1,099 in 2024-2025 (annexure; 2019-2020 return). There is no published figure for 2020-2021 in either document, and what is published is a head count and a rupee total per year, not the names of the children chosen.

Fine print

Terms & conditions

Scheme I's conditions come down to recovery, and recovery falls on the worker even though the money arrives through the school. Clause C(iv) of the guidelines names the worker, "him or her", as the one the whole amount is recovered from, forthwith, when the grant was secured by fraudulent means; the affirmation above the worker's signature on Part I widens that to any particular on the form that proves incorrect. The board's scholarship can be cancelled for poor progress, irregular attendance or a change of institution without approval (Scheme III regulations); the textbook rules attach no such conditions.

Get help

Contact

Scheme I claims go to the board's Secretary on the 4th floor of Shrama Shakti Bhavan at Patto Plaza, Panaji, a building the printed form spells "Sharma Shakti Bhavan" (Scheme I form). The board itself takes calls on 0832-2437083 and mail at glwbpanaji@gmail.com, while the Office of the Commissioner, Labour and Employment on the 2nd floor of the same building answers on 0832-2437081, 82 and 83 at com-labo.goa@nic.in (Labour Department contact page).

Source

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Frequently asked questions

From the official scheme FAQ (myScheme)

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