Hostel Facility Scheme (HPBOCWWB)(HFSHPBOCWWB)

Overview

About HFSHPBOCWWB

The Himachal Pradesh Building and Other Construction Workers Welfare Board carries this benefit on its own list of welfare payments as Hostel Suvidha Yojana, tagged to Rule 301. What it pays for is narrow and literal: a registered worker's child who lives in a hostel, and the cost of the bed, the boarding and the food. It is not a merit award and not a fee waiver, and the board's published text asks nothing about the child's marks or the family's income.

Rule 301 sits at line 12 of the board's welfare table, written as an annual payment of Rs 15,000 to Rs 20,000 for a registered beneficiary's children staying in a hostel, toward accommodation, boarding and food (HPBOCWWB welfare schemes).

The board keeps this separate from the education line in the same table, which is written as a rate per course. Rule 301 answers a different cost. A course fee is what studying costs; a hostel bill is what living away from home costs, and in a state where a child's polytechnic, ITI or degree college is often not inside a daily bus ride, the second is the one that decides whether the child goes at all.

That framing also explains why the scheme is hard to find. It is a labour welfare payment administered by a construction board, so it does not appear where a student looks for a scholarship, and the searches that do reach it tend to land on university hostel pages instead.

Who runs it

Provider

At a glance

Key details

Calendar

Important dates

The board announces no window for this benefit, and Rule 301 as the board states it fixes none (HPBOCWWB welfare schemes). The benefit is written as an annual one, so what sets its timing is the hostel year and the currency of the parent's membership. A family whose contribution is due has a calendar to watch; a family waiting for the scheme to open does not.

Who can apply

Eligibility criteria

Two things have to be true on the same day: the parent is on the HPBOCWWB rolls with a live membership, and the child is actually residing in a hostel.

Beyond that, the board's own scheme text sets no income ceiling for Rule 301, no minimum percentage, and no restriction on the kind of course the child is enrolled in (HPBOCWWB welfare schemes). The printed leaflet the board distributes to workers adds one qualifier its web table leaves out. The leaflet carries an eligibility column, and against the hostel line it asks for a membership of two months, the same waiting period it sets against the marriage, maternity, education, daughter-birth and housing lines, where the medical, pension, disability and widow lines ask only for membership (HPBOCWWB welfare schemes leaflet).

Who cannot apply

Exclusions

Rule 301 comes with no bar list of its own, so what shuts a family out has to be read out of the line itself. The payment attaches to a child staying in a hostel, and that residence test is the whole of it: a day scholar is outside the line even when everything else about the family qualifies (HPBOCWWB welfare schemes).

Continuation

Renewal conditions

The board's wording is per year, so this is not a one-time grant. A claim is made again for each year the child boards, and only for as long as the parent's membership is current (HPBOCWWB welfare schemes). Nothing published caps the number of years a family may claim, and nothing published says whether the sanctioned amount may move within its band from one year to the next.

What you get

Award & benefits

The payment is Rs 15,000 to Rs 20,000 a year, described by the board as covering accommodation, boarding and food (HPBOCWWB welfare schemes).

What the board does not publish is the test that decides where a claim lands inside that band. Read down the rest of the welfare table and every other line either names a definite amount or breaks into figures fixed by a stated condition, whether that is the course, the degree of disability or the kind of hospital treatment. Only the hostel line is set down as a span between two figures, with no condition written against it.

There is a reason nothing more is published, and it is worth knowing before a family goes looking. The board's Acts and Rules page carries the principal rules of 2008 together with its amendment notifications up to 2020, and the hostel rule is in none of them (HPBOCWWB acts and rules). The scheme table on the board's home page and the leaflet handed out at the labour office are the only places the board states these terms at all, which leaves the district labour welfare office as the only place a family will learn what it is being sanctioned and why.

• Provides ₹15,000–₹20,000 annually for hostel stay, boarding, and food for beneficiaries' children.

What to prepare

Documents required

The paper that decides this claim is the receipt for hostel expenditure. The rest of the list establishes who the parent and the child are; the receipt is what turns a statement about where the child sleeps into an amount the board can pass.

There is also no scheme-specific printed form to hunt for. The board publishes a numbered form against each of its other benefits, and none against this one.

So the claim travels on the board's general benefits route rather than on a form of its own.

Step by step

How to apply

One line printed directly above the scheme table tells a worker where a benefit claim goes, and it names an officer rather than a counter or a portal: the application is to be sent to the office of the Labour Welfare Officer concerned, by a beneficiary whose contributions are being deposited regularly (HPBOCWWB welfare schemes). Online, the same claim goes through Apply For Benefits on the board's portal, which opens on a beneficiary ID and a date of birth (HPBOCWWB apply for benefits).

Tracking is where families get a confident answer to the wrong question. The board's Check Status screen is headed Check Registration Status, so what it returns is the standing of the parent's registration, not the stage a hostel claim has reached (HPBOCWWB check status). The portal publishes no status screen for a sanctioned benefit, and because this claim carries no form number of its own there is nothing to quote at a counter either. That leaves the district labour welfare office holding the only file with an answer in it, and the board's telephone lines as the way to ask.

How winners are picked

Selection process

There is no selection stage to describe. The board publishes no merit list, no ranking and no quota against Rule 301, so a claim either satisfies the membership and residence test or it does not (HPBOCWWB welfare schemes).

Fine print

Terms & conditions

The membership has to be alive on the day the claim is made, not merely at some point in the family's past. The board's leaflet closes with its own caution, that for the current position on any of these schemes a worker should contact the labour officer's office or check the board's website (HPBOCWWB welfare schemes leaflet).

That instruction carries a trap worth knowing before you type. The website the leaflet names is hpbocwb.nic.in, and so is the one printed on the board's own contact page, but the portal that actually carries registration, renewal and the benefits form runs at bocw.hp.nic.in.

Get help

Contact

Two addresses for this board are in circulation and a family working from a printout is probably holding the wrong one. Where the board sits today, as its home page gives it, is Hamirpur 177001, on 01972222411 (HPBOCWWB). What older paper still sends a worker towards is Shimla: the contact page names Thakur Vatika, Khalini, Shimla 171002 as the head office, with four numbers on the 0177 exchange (HPBOCWWB contact).

Neither address is where this claim is decided. It goes to the labour welfare officer for the district the family is registered in (HPBOCWWB welfare schemes).

Source

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Frequently asked questions

From the official scheme FAQ (myScheme)

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Disclaimer

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