Mobile Learning Centre (UKBOCWWB)(MLCUKBOCWWB)

Overview

About MLCUKBOCWWB

Nothing is paid out under the Mobile Learning Centre. A bus fitted as a classroom is sent to the construction site so that the children living beside the work keep learning while the family moves from one job to the next. That single design choice settles everything else about the scheme: there is no sanction letter, no bank credit and no per-child figure to look up, and what a parent actually has to get right is the labour card the whole entitlement hangs on.

The Uttarakhand Building and Other Construction Workers Welfare Board runs this under the state Labour Department, and the state's own scheme compendium is the only place it is set out. There it occupies a single row, first in the board's table and directly above the row for its medical check-up facility, under columns for the benefit, the eligible beneficiary, and the application and selection process. The entry says the teaching is delivered by going to the construction sites and running a Mobile Learning Centre bus for the children of workers employed there, and it fixes no amount, no duration and no number of vehicles (Uttarakhand Labour Department, Meri Yojana state scheme book).

Nothing further has been published, and where the missing document would sit is easy to point at. The board keeps a page pairing each of its schemes with the government order behind it, running from the pension scheme through to the toilet construction scheme, and the Mobile Learning Centre is not among them (UKBOCWWB scheme list). A parent hunting for terms is hunting for a paper the board has never put out.

One line on the board's scheme details page widens who a benefit of this fund can reach. It introduces the welfare schemes as being operated for eligible workers registered under the provisions of the 1996 Act and for construction workers employed under MGNREGA (UKBOCWWB, scheme details), which is worth knowing in a state where a household may be camped at a rural works site rather than at a contractor's building project.

Who runs it

Provider

At a glance

Key details

Calendar

Important dates

No opening date and no closing date are published, and neither would mean much, because nothing is sanctioned per academic session. A family told to file by a particular month has been told about the board's cash education assistance instead, which is accepted from November of the financial year in which admission was taken up to June of the next education session, and not considered after that (UKBOCWWB, scheme details).

The only date to hold is the card's. The three-year block described above decides whether the registration is live on the day a child is presented at the bus, and it is the one deadline under this scheme worth writing down.

Who can apply

Eligibility criteria

The test is about the parent, and only about the parent. A child qualifies because a mother or father holds a live registration with this board, and no class range, no age band for the child, no marks bar and no family income ceiling appears anywhere in the scheme's record.

What counts as registered is set out by the board itself. Its conditions are a work test wrapped inside an age band: at least 90 days on construction work in the year before applying, by somebody who has turned 18 and has not yet reached the superannuation age of 60, with the resulting registration good for 3 years (UKBOCWWB, mission and objectives). A card from another state's board does not carry across, because the entitlement runs against this board's own fund.

There is a second condition that families rarely hear about at the counter. Para 29 of the Supreme Court judgment of 19 March 2018 holds that a construction worker is entitled to benefits under the BOCW Act only if he is both registered and employed by a registered establishment, and across ten other schemes of this same fund that the auditor sampled between 2018-19 and 2021-22, not one application mentioned a registered establishment at all (CAG Report No. 6 of 2024, Government of Uttarakhand). The condition is real in law and has not been enforced in practice, and whether a site qualifies is a question for the contractor rather than for the worker.

Who cannot apply

Exclusions

No exclusion list is published for this scheme, so the bars that operate are the ones sitting under every benefit paid out of this fund. Section 11 of the BOCW Act confines what the board provides from its fund to a registered beneficiary (CAG Report No. 6 of 2024), which leaves an unregistered parent and a lapsed card in the same position.

Geography does the rest of the excluding, and it does it silently. A bus is a route, and no route list, district coverage or timetable has been published for the vehicles, so a family at a site the vehicle never reaches is outside the scheme in practice however good the card is. The contrast is visible inside one document: two pages after the scheme's single row, the same compendium prints the location and address of every Shramik Suvidha Kendra district by district across Garhwal and Kumaon (Meri Yojana state scheme book). The fixed counters are mapped; the moving classroom is not.

Continuation

Renewal conditions

Nothing is renewed on the scheme side. No annual application is filed, no sanction expires and no fresh certificate from a school is called for, because this is a service running at a site rather than a grant running for a session.

The card is what has to stay alive, and Uttarakhand runs it on an unusual clock. A card lasts 3 years from the day it is granted, and holding on to it means putting Rs 100 back across the counter that issued it before that third year runs out (UKBOCWWB, mission and objectives). Missing that deposit changes the position rather than pausing it: under rules the state framed in February 2015 a worker who fails to pay before the three years lapse ceases to be a beneficiary, and the registration may be renewed on paying the next three years' contribution with a late fee of Rs 10 (CAG Report No. 6 of 2024).

Renewal also has a protected clock behind it, which the schooling does not. It is one of only two services this board has notified under the Uttarakhand Right to Service Act, 2011, to be delivered within 30 days counted in working days from a complete application, with the Deputy Labour Commissioner as the first appellate authority and the Additional Labour Commissioner as the second (UKBOCWWB, right to service). A bus reaching a site has no equivalent commitment standing behind it.

What you get

Award & benefits

The benefit is the schooling itself, delivered where the family is standing. No money reaches a bank account, so a parent looking for a credit entry against this scheme will not find one, and there is no direct benefit transfer trail to follow.

Uttarakhand has published no figure of any kind for it. Not a per-child cost, not a fleet size, not the hours a bus stays, not a syllabus. The compendium row describes the operation and stops there, and the board's portal adds nothing to it. Where a number would help a family most, the honest answer is that the state has not put one out, and the first place it would appear is a government order for this scheme on the board's own page of schemes and orders, which does not carry one (UKBOCWWB scheme list).

• Under this scheme, mobile learning schools are operated to provide education to the children of construction workers.

What to prepare

Documents required

One document does the work, and it is the parent's rather than the child's. The labour card is the identity card the board must issue to every registered beneficiary under Section 13 of the BOCW Act, carrying the holder's photograph and space to enter the construction work done (CAG Report No. 6 of 2024); the state rules put it in Form No. XXXII, issued by the Secretary or an officer authorised by him against a register of cards kept in Form No. XXXIII (Uttarakhand BOCW Rules, 2005, rule 266).

Obtaining that card is the part that actually takes paperwork, so it is worth knowing what the board asks for at registration: two passport-size photographs, a certificate of age, and a certificate of having worked at least 90 days as a construction worker in the previous year, along with a nomination form naming the worker's legal heirs (UKBOCWWB, mission and objectives). The work certificate is what stalls families, and the rules are more forgiving here than the counter usually admits. It ordinarily comes from the employer or contractor, and where that is not available the rules also accept one issued by a registered construction workers' union, by the Assistant Labour Commissioner for the area, or by the Executive Officer of the Panchayat (Uttarakhand BOCW Rules, 2005, rule 266).

Carry the registration number alongside the card. Audit found the board's cards being issued with no record of previous construction work entered on them (CAG Report No. 6 of 2024), so the number, which ties back to the board's own database, is usually the quicker way to be identified.

Step by step

How to apply

Offline, at the board's counters, and on no scholarship portal at all. The board names which counter does which job on its home page: a worker's own registration is taken at the nearest Jan Seva Kendra, while an application under any of its schemes goes to the nearest Shram Suvidha Kendra (UKBOCWWB). Those centres are not hard to find on paper, because the state's scheme compendium prints their addresses district by district (Meri Yojana state scheme book).

Checking where things stand is the part families ask about most, and the board splits it across two pages of which only one is any use here. The scheme application page answers for claims that move through a queue and end in a sanction (UKBOCWWB, scheme application status), and a bus arriving at a site is not one of those. The other page is the one to open here. Its upper box pulls up the worker's own record; the box underneath answers the narrower question that decides everything, which is what has actually been paid in against the registration or renewal number (UKBOCWWB, worker registration status). An inactive result there is what will keep a child off the bus, and it can be fixed before anyone travels.

If something has stalled, go in person rather than escalating by phone. Audit of the board's grievance route found that none of ten test-checked complaints on the CM helpline portal was resolved, each being closed without resolution between 83 and 966 days after it was received (CAG Report No. 6 of 2024), which makes a visit to the district Labour office worth more than a ticket number.

How winners are picked

Selection process

Nothing is ranked here. No merit list, quota or cut-off exists for the scheme, because entitlement follows the registered card under Section 11 of the BOCW Act (CAG Report No. 6 of 2024) rather than a score. What separates two equally eligible families is not their standing but whether a vehicle reaches the site one of them is living on.

Fine print

Terms & conditions

The board cannot invent or enlarge a welfare measure on its own account, which is the likeliest reason this one carries no published terms. Section 22(1)(h) of the BOCW Act makes the board's function the provision and improvement of such other welfare measures as may be prescribed by rules, and the auditor's objection to the board's 2020-21 ration kit scheme was exactly that it had made the provision without the government's approval and without the measure being laid before the State Legislature (CAG Report No. 6 of 2024). Rule 291 of the state rules puts the same lock on the money, barring expenditure from the fund for any purpose outside the Act and the Rules without the previous approval of Government (Uttarakhand BOCW Rules, 2005).

For a family the consequence is narrow. What is offered at a site can change when an order changes, and nothing about the service creates a right that outlives the parent's registration.

Get help

Contact

The board sits on the third floor of the GMVN Building, Rajpur Road, Dehradun 248001, publishes its address as ukbocw[at]gmail[dot]com and runs a toll free line on 1800 2127 174 (UKBOCWWB contact details). The Labour Department's directory of state boards carries the same address and the same email (Labour Department, Uttarakhand).

For anything site-specific, the district Deputy or Assistant Labour Commissioner is the officer with jurisdiction, and the Shram Suvidha Kendra nearest the site is the counter likeliest to have been told where a vehicle is running.

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