Scholarship
Mahila Kamgar Kaushal Unnayan Evan Theka Shramik, Hamaal Tatha Ghareloo Mahila Kamgaar Parivar Sashaktikaran Yojana(MKKU)
Overview
About MKKU
The applicant on this form is a grown woman with a job. She cooks and cleans in other people's houses, or she carries sacks at a mandi as a hamaal, or she works for a contractor, and she holds a Chhattisgarh labour board card that says so. What the Labour Department gives her is a seat on a trade course somebody else pays for. Nobody is enrolled in a school or a college anywhere in this file, and no fee is being reimbursed.
The department notified the scheme from Mahanadi Bhawan, Naya Raipur on 11 March 2015, using the power that section 3(4) of the Unorganised Workers Social Security Act, 2008 hands to a state government. The heading on that notification reads "Gharelu Mahila Kamgar Kaushal Unnayan Evan Theka Shramik, Hamaal Tatha Gharelu Mahila Kamgar Parivar Sashaktikaran Yojana", and the naming clause immediately below it prints a shorter version of the same title, without the opening Gharelu and without the Mahila near the end (Labour Department notification). The clipped mouthful in this page's web address is what is left when a listing site cuts that title down to fit.
Two limbs sit inside the title. Skill upgradation trains the registered domestic woman worker herself. Family empowerment trains the household, and it reaches the family of a contract worker, a hamaal and a domestic woman worker alike.
Everything downstream depends on one card. The scheme belongs to the Chhattisgarh Unorganised Workers State Social Security Board, which was constituted in January 2011 under rules framed in 2010, and it sits at entry 34 on the list of 35 schemes the Labour Commissioner publishes for that board (Labour Commissioner scheme list). A worker with no board registration number cannot start.
Who runs it
Provider
Chhattisgarh State Government
State / UT Government
Labour Department
At a glance
Key details
| Level | State |
| Scheme type | Not published by the source |
| Category | Education & Learning, Business & Entrepreneurship |
| Beneficiaries | Individual |
| Benefit type | In Kind |
| Application mode | Online |
| Direct Benefit Transfer | No |
| Tags | Training, Empowerment, Learning, Women |
| Source record | myScheme, 2026-07-08official-site· 2026-07-08 |
Calendar
Important dates
The scheme has been in force since the day it was notified, 11 March 2015, and no application window, closing date or annual cycle has been announced for it since. Training is provided as and when the board and the skill development authority organise it, which is the phrase the department uses.
Read the vintage of the material honestly. The notification is a decade old, and the Labour Commissioner's page describing the scheme carries a last-updated stamp of 22-03-2020 (Labour Commissioner scheme list). What can be confirmed as current is that the scheme was still listed on the board's live application, form-download and status pages when they were checked on 8 September 2026.
| Cycle | Stage | Date |
|---|---|---|
| Current | Applications open | 2015-03-11 |
Who can apply
Eligibility criteria
Two conditions decide it, and neither is academic. The applicant has to be older than 18, and has to have been registered with the board as a domestic woman worker, contract worker or hamaal for at least 90 days before the claim (Labour Commissioner scheme list). Ninety days is not a formality; a card issued last week will not carry a claim filed this week.
Registration is its own test, run separately by the board. It opens at age 14, needs a self-declaration that the applicant really is an unorganised worker, and caps annual income at the rate the Labour Commissioner fixes for unskilled workers under the Minimum Wages Act, 1948, or Rs 66,000, whichever the applicant is claiming under. An agricultural labourer qualifies on 2.5 acres or less. The income certificate comes from a ward councillor in a town and from the sarpanch or the patwari in a village (board registration eligibility).
The registration category matters more than most applicants expect, because the three groups this scheme names are three separate rows on the board's notified list.
| Worker | Row on the board's category list | What the row says |
|---|---|---|
| Domestic worker | 8 | Listed as gharelu karmakar, the household worker |
| Hamaal | 14 | Grouped with coolies and rezas, the load carriers |
| Contract labour | 53 | Excludes contract labour engaged under the state's construction workers welfare board, and anyone already inside ESI or Provident Fund |
That exclusion on row 53 is the one that sends people to the wrong counter. A labourer on a building site is the construction board's beneficiary, not this board's, and the two boards run different schemes out of the same department. Name the category rather than its serial number when you go: the registration page numbers its notified callings out to 57 (board registration eligibility), while the Labour Commissioner's page still records 53 kinds of worker as notified (Labour Commissioner scheme list).
| Female domestic workers, Contract workers and Hamal to be registered with the Board. | |
| Benefits from this scheme are not available to individuals who are already receiving benefits from another comparable scheme offered by the State Government. | |
| The age limit for the scheme should be above 18. |
Who cannot apply
Exclusions
The published record on myScheme leaves the exclusions field empty, so the bar has to be read out of the notification, where it is stated once and stated plainly: a person already drawing a benefit from a parallel scheme of the state government does not get this one (Labour Department notification). The board applies the same wording across its other benefits, so a worker who has taken a cycle or a sewing machine from it should expect the question to be asked.
Age below 18 and a registration younger than 90 days are the other two disqualifiers, and both are checked before anything else.
Continuation
Renewal conditions
A trade course finishes and that is the end of the transaction. Neither the notification nor the Labour Commissioner's scheme page fixes a term, a repeat interval or a re-verification step, which is what you would expect from a benefit delivered once as a course rather than paid out in instalments. A worker who wants a second trade has no published route to ask for one.
What you get
Award & benefits
The benefit is training, and the notification lists the trades by name rather than leaving them to an officer's discretion. For the registered domestic woman worker, the course can be beautician, nutritionist, dietitian, cooking, hospitality, household production of badi, papad and pickles, nursing, or tailoring (Labour Department notification).
The myScheme record reproduced under this page does not match that list. It carries three of the eight trades, beautician, nutritionist and the household work of making badi, papad and pickles, and it adds a line about family empowerment activities in health education, financial literacy and entrepreneurship training that has no counterpart in the notification. Where a summary and the instrument it summarises disagree, the notification is the document an officer has to apply.
| Who is trained | Which trades | Who fixes the trade |
|---|---|---|
| The registered domestic woman worker | The eight named in the notification | The board, from its own identified list |
| Husband, wife, son or daughter of a hamaal, a contract worker or a domestic woman worker | Whatever the household is judged to need | The Chhattisgarh State Skill Development Authority |
Family, in the notification's own definition, means husband, wife, son and daughter, and stops at two children. Courses run through institutions authorised by the state skill development authority and through the state's Mukhyamantri Kaushal Vikas Yojana machinery, and the expenditure on the various heads of the training is carried by the board. The Labour Commissioner's entry for the scheme compresses all of that into one word, nishulk, meaning free of charge to the worker (Labour Commissioner scheme list). No stipend, no tool kit and no cash award appears anywhere in the provisions, which is why myScheme files the benefit as in kind with no direct benefit transfer attached.
- The scheme provides the following benefits: Skill development training in below identified trades
- Beautician (Beautician)
- Nutritionist (Nutrition)
- House Hold (Making Badi, Papad, Pickle Etc.)
- Financial assistance for training
- Family empowerment activities such as health education, financial literacy, and entrepreneurship training
What to prepare
Documents required
Four papers make up the claim as myScheme records it: an Aadhaar card, the labour registration card, proof of the applicant's educational qualification, and details of the work she does. The notification adds two conditions that decide whether a form is even accepted. It has to carry the applicant's own signature, and it has to carry the board registration number (Labour Department notification).
A worker who is not yet registered will be assembling a different set first: age proof in the form of a voter card, Aadhaar or a marksheet showing date of birth, the self-declaration of unorganised work, and the income certificate from the councillor, sarpanch or patwari (board registration eligibility).
Step by step
How to apply
Two routes exist, and they came from different decades. The notification puts the paper application at the office of the Assistant Labour Commissioner or the Labour Officer holding jurisdiction over the applicant's area. The department's portal now also carries an online scheme application form, which opens by asking for the district, the beneficiary's name, the father's or husband's name, and the old or new registration number, and which warns in bold that entries must be typed in Hindi or the application will be rejected (scheme application form). Printable forms for the board's schemes, this one among them, sit on a separate download page (scheme form downloads).
Tracking is genuinely available here, which is not true of every state labour benefit. The board's status page asks for the application number and the scheme name, chosen from a dropdown in which this scheme appears under its Hindi title, and returns the file's position (application status search). One warning worth carrying: several of the board's own pages still send worker registration, login and worker search to cglabour.nic.in, a host that no longer resolves at all, so a link that dies under your finger is the old address rather than a broken service. The working portal is shramevjayate.cg.gov.in.
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The official links on this page lead to the application portal.
How winners are picked
Selection process
No marks are compared and no list is published. An application either clears the registration test, the age test, the 90-day test and the parallel-benefit test, or it does not, and what follows is a seat allotted in a course run by an authorised training institution.
Fine print
Terms & conditions
The conditions that bite are few and they are all in the notification. Benefit from a parallel state scheme cancels eligibility. The family limb reaches two children and no further. The cost of training sits with the board, not with the worker or her employer. Where the scheme's own provisions throw up an inconsistency, the notification gives the last word to the Secretary of the Chhattisgarh Unorganised Workers State Social Security Board, and not to the institute running the class. And the whole arrangement is conditional on the board registration staying alive, because the registration number is the key the application is filed under.
Get help
Contact
The board works from the same floor as the Labour Commissioner. The Labour Department's current contact list prints its address in Hindi as "खंड-तीन, व्दितीय तल, इन्द्रावती भवन, अटल नगर रायपुर (छ.ग.)", which is Khand-Teen, second floor, Indravati Bhawan, Atal Nagar, Raipur, and gives it the mailbox uowbraipur@gmail.com and the lines 0771-2443513, 2443514, 2443515 and 2443516; the third of those is also the one number the list prints for the Labour Commissioner's own office (Labour Department contact page). The contact link in the board's older section of the portal, the one beside this scheme's printable form on the download page, opens a different page, which still names the board against a Sector 27 Housing Board Colony address in Naya Raipur and the mailbox secretaryboc@gmail.com (older board contact page). The current list files secretaryboc@gmail.com under the construction workers' welfare board (Labour Department contact page), the body whose contract labourers row 53 of the registration list keeps off this board's register (board registration eligibility), so a letter sent to that mailbox reaches the wrong board. For a form already handed in on paper, the nearer counter is the Assistant Labour Commissioner or Labour Officer for the applicant's own area, because that is where the notification directs her to lodge it.
Source
Official links
Questions
MKKU – FAQ
Frequently asked questions
From the official scheme FAQ (myScheme)
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Disclaimer
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
- Labour Department notification – shramevjayate.cg.gov.in
- Guidelines – cglabour.nic.in
- myScheme (Government of India) – myscheme.gov.in