Scheme for Award of Scholarships to School or College-Going Children of Employees/Industrial Employees in Various Establishments(SASSECEIE)

Overview

About SASSECEIE

The qualifying link here runs through the parent's employer, and the application form asks the family for no membership number, no subscription record and no registration date. Once the establishment is covered by the Goa, Daman and Diu Labour Welfare Fund Act, 1986, what the child receives is set by a five step ladder that starts at Rs 2,000 for Class V and ends at Rs 20,000 for doctoral study (Scheme III regulations, Goa Labour Welfare Board). One date carries the whole year: 30 September. Clearing the marks line is not the end of it, because the Secretary also fixes how many awards each group gets in an academic year, within the sanctioned budget.

Scheme III belongs to the Goa Labour Welfare Board, an autonomous body governed by the Goa, Daman and Diu Labour Welfare Fund Act, 1986 and established in 1990, whose money comes from a contribution of Rs 10 by the employee and Rs 30 by the employer, Rs 40 in all, filed half yearly by 31 July and 31 January, alongside a Government share of Rs 20 that the Board spends only on its Retrenched Workers Assistance Scheme (About Labour Welfare Board, Government of Goa). That contribution is the reason the scheme exists, and it is also the reason a family cannot join it on its own initiative. The employer is inside the fund or the family is outside the scheme.

The Board runs a spread of benefits for the same worker population, 17 welfare schemes as counted in the department's 2024-25 administration report (Annual Administration Report 2024-2025, Government of Goa). Of those, this is the one with a separate rate for each stage of study, from Class V to research and doctoral work.

The office chain matters for a scheme that is filed on paper. The Board keeps its own office on the 4th floor of Shrama Shakti Bhavan at Patto Plaza in Panaji, two floors above the Commissioner of Labour and Employment on the 2nd (Contact Us, Goa Labour Welfare Board). The regulation sends the form to the Secretary of the Board and has the Secretary pay it, and the state's notices on the Board's schemes address applications to the Secretary's office on that 4th floor (Goa Labour Welfare Board notice, 18 June 2026). One officer can hold both posts, as in October 2024, when the Commissioner for Labour and Employment attended the Board's 47th meeting as its Secretary too (Department of Information and Publicity, 16 October 2024), but the paper still goes to the Board's floor, not the 2nd.

Who runs it

Provider

At a glance

Key details

Calendar

Important dates

Regulation 9 fixes one date and no others: the last date for submission of the application to the Secretary is 30 September each year (Scheme III regulations, Goa Labour Welfare Board).

The state has also announced the date in notices on the Board's schemes, published on the Government of Goa portal and the Department of Information and Publicity site, each naming this scholarship among the Board's education schemes with a 30 September last date.

Those seven are the notices found on the state portal and the Department of Information and Publicity site; none turned up there for 2018, 2022 or 2024, so whether one is issued every year is not established. Every one found repeats the regulation's 30 September, and none gives an opening date.

The date is the day the form must reach the Secretary, and it gets there through another office first: the institution under Regulation 7, the employer in the notices' wording. Neither the regulation nor the notices set an earlier cut off for those offices, so asking the one sending the form when it closes its batch is the practical step.

Who can apply

Eligibility criteria

Everything upstream of the student turns on one defined term. Section 2(e) of the 1986 Act draws "establishment" much wider than the word industrial suggests: a factory under the Factories Act, 1948, a motor transport undertaking, a unit registered under the Goa, Daman and Diu Shops and Establishments Act, 1973, the establishment of a contractor, a registered society or a charitable trust carrying on any business or trade, any scheduled employment under the Minimum Wages Act, 1948, a plantation, a port, dock, wharf or jetty, an inland water transport service, and anything else the Government notifies (The Goa, Daman and Diu Labour Welfare Fund Act, 1986, Official Gazette Series I No. 5, 30 April 1987). A shop assistant and a hotel worker can sit inside it; a unit or department of the Central or a State Government that is not a factory is written out of it in the same clause.

On the parent, three tests run together. Six months of continuous service in the establishment, work that is skilled or unskilled and manual or clerical rather than a position of supervision or management, and salary not above Rs 20,000 a month counting all allowances and perks but leaving out bonus (Scheme III regulations, Goa Labour Welfare Board). The middle test is about the nature of the post, not the pay slip, so a low paid supervisor fails it while a better paid machine operator does not.

On the student, the requirement is admission at a recognised institution in India for a course of general or technical education, medical, engineering and agricultural studies included. The ladder itself begins at Class V, which quietly settles the question of what a worker with a Class 3 child can claim here.

Who cannot apply

Exclusions

Regulation 5 closes two doors, and both of them lead sideways rather than up. The first shuts on a second qualification at a level the student has already cleared, and the regulation spells out the shape of it with three of its own pairs, an I.S.C. taken once an I.A. is done, a B.Com. taken once a B.A. is done, a second M.A. read in a fresh subject. The second shuts once an education career in one professional line is finished and a different professional line begins, the regulation's example being L.L.B. after B.T. or B.Ed. (Scheme III regulations, Goa Labour Welfare Board).

The employment condition does not stop working once the money is sanctioned. If the parent ceases to be an employee of the establishment, the sanctioned scholarship is liable to be cancelled on that ground alone, which puts a mid year resignation or a closure in the same list as a false statement.

Younger children are not excluded so much as routed elsewhere. The Board's Scheme 1 covers textbooks and notebooks and its Scheme 2 covers one set of uniform, both written for children studying in standards I to IV (Citizen's Charter, Labour Department, Government of Goa).

Continuation

Renewal conditions

The regulations publish no renewal route, no continuation form and no reduced second year application. Everything in them is counted one academic year at a time: the rates are per student per year, the number of awards is fixed for each academic year, and the institution's certificate on Schedule III names a single academic year.

What the regulations do settle is the opposite direction, whether study that continues in the same line stays eligible at all. It does: a Ph.D. or an M.Phil. after a postgraduate course, and an M.D. or an M.S. after an M.B.B.S., are treated as higher learning in the same line rather than as a second bite (Scheme III regulations, Goa Labour Welfare Board).

What you get

Award & benefits

The rate is fixed per student per year and depends only on the group the course falls into.

Payment is a single instalment, sent by the Secretary through the ECS facility into the parent's bank account rather than the student's. Families that keep the child's own account for scholarship credits should read that line twice before filling in bank details.

One clause changes the arithmetic for a student who already holds an award. Where a scholarship or stipend is drawn from another source, the fund pays only the amount by which its own scholarship exceeds that other award, so a Group V student already holding a larger stipend may see nothing from this scheme even after qualifying on every other test.

Two rate lists for this scheme are in public circulation and they do not agree. The Labour Department's citizen charter, dated 16 March 2016, still prints the earlier ladder of Rs 1,000, Rs 1,400, Rs 1,800, Rs 5,000 and Rs 10,000 against a salary ceiling of Rs 10,000 (Citizen's Charter, Labour Department, Government of Goa). The scheme regulations hosted by the same department carry the higher figures and the higher ceiling, and they are the document the Secretary sanctions from. Every band in that newer ladder is exactly double its charter figure and the salary ceiling doubled with them, so the two lists are the same scheme at two rate levels rather than two different schemes. The regulations document carries no date of its own. The higher ceiling, though, was already in force when a state notice of 19 June 2017 set the pay limit for the Board's schemes at Rs 20,000 a month (notice of 19 June 2017); none of the notices prints the rates themselves.

• Group 1: ₹2,000 for Class 5th & 6th- Group 2: ₹2,800 for Class 7th, 8th, 9th & 10th.- Group 3: ₹3,600 for Class 11th, 12th, University Admission Index Supplementary Courses (UAI SC), etc.- Group 4: ₹10,000 for Graduation and Post Graduation Degree Courses in Arts, Science, Commerce, and Lower Technical courses.- Group 5: ₹20,000 for Higher Technical courses, Research, and Doctorate Studies.
• Frequency of Disbursal
• The scholarship amount is paid in one instalment, disbursed annually.
• The amount is disbursed through the Electronic Clearing Service (ECS) facility to the parents' bank account.

What to prepare

Documents required

Three signed documents travel with the form, and the employer's certificate asks for the most. It has to be signed by the owner, manager, contractor, director, proprietor, partner or agent of the establishment, and it has to carry specifics rather than a general good character line: the worker's serial number in the register maintained under the labour legislation in force in the State, the description of the work as skilled or unskilled and manual or clerical other than casual or contract and other than supervision or management, confirmation of more than six months of continuous service, and the monthly income in figures and words, including all allowances and perquisites and excluding bonus (Scheme III regulations and Schedule III form, Goa Labour Welfare Board). Where both parents work in an industrial establishment, two such certificates go in together.

The institution's certificate is short and specific in a way a bonafide letter is not. It names the standard the student is studying in, the academic year, and whether the student passed, was promoted, or was detained in the same standard. Promotion is the exact word Regulation 6 turns on for a Lower Category student; the percentage goes somewhere else entirely, into the office use box at the head of the form, against the line for marks in the last annual examination. The department's 2016 citizen charter also lists an attested copy of the marksheet for this scholarship, a paper the regulations and Schedule III do not name (Citizen's Charter, Labour Department, Government of Goa).

The third document is a declaration the family signs against itself. Signed by the candidate and by the working parent, it commits them to returning the full scholarship amount if any particular is later found incorrect, and to accepting debarment from the scholarship for as many years as the Secretary decides.

Step by step

How to apply

Regulation 7 names one channel, and it is not the employer that certifies the wage. The prescribed form goes to the Secretary through the head of the institution where the student is studying, so the school or college carries the file and it is only as timely as that office (Scheme III regulations, Goa Labour Welfare Board). The state's notices on the Board's schemes describe a different route, telling workers they "have to apply through their employers" to the Secretary's office (Goa Labour Welfare Board notice, 18 June 2026). The employer signs Part II on either reading, so it is worth settling with both the employer and the institution which of them sends the finished form on. The form itself is Schedule III, printed with the scheme document, in three parts: the applicant's particulars, the institution's certificate, and the employer's Part II certificate.

The outcome of a Schedule III application is written into a box at the head of the form marked for office use only, where the Board enters either the amount sanctioned or the reason for rejection, and that sheet stays with the Board (Scheme III regulations, Goa Labour Welfare Board). The Goa Labour Welfare Board's service on the state portal is the employer's and employee's contribution filing on Form A, a compliance transaction for establishments that touches no scholarship file (Employee's and Employer's Contribution Service, Goa Online). Goa's Chief Minister's Scholarship Portal does run a Track Application view, but the awards behind it belong to other bodies, from the tribal and social welfare directorates to the skill development department and the Goa Education Development Corporation, and this scholarship is not among them (Scheme details, Chief Minister's Scholarship Portal, Government of Goa). So progress has to be asked of the office that physically holds the paper: note the date the institution or the employer sent the form on, then ask the Board at glwbpanaji@gmail.com or 0832-2437083, quoting the student's standard and academic year (Contact Us, Goa Labour Welfare Board).

How winners are picked

Selection process

Merit is the stated primary consideration, and Regulation 6 admits two classes of student rather than one. A student in the Lower Category qualifies on having been promoted in the last annual examination. Every other student has to have qualified for promotion with 45% or more marks in the aggregate (Scheme III regulations, Goa Labour Welfare Board). The aggregate line is the half that travels on its own: the department's own citizen charter states the academic test flatly as a minimum of 45% in the last examination, with no separate track for the Lower Category (Citizen's Charter, Labour Department, Government of Goa). A family inside that category, reading the shorter version, can conclude it is out when the regulation says it is in.

Regulation 3 caps the awards group by group. For each academic year the Secretary fixes the total for each group in consultation with the Advisory Committee, subject to the funds in the sanctioned budget, and that total cannot exceed the previous year's figure for the same group by more than 10% (Scheme III regulations, Goa Labour Welfare Board). A Group V applicant is therefore competing with other Group V applicants for a number that cannot run more than a tenth above the Group V awards of the year before.

Inside each group, 10% of the fixed number is reserved for the lower category, which the regulation defines as children of workers whose income from all sources does not exceed Rs 3,500 a month, children belonging to Other Backward Communities, and physically handicapped children (Scheme III regulations, Goa Labour Welfare Board).

Fine print

Terms & conditions

A sanctioned scholarship can be stopped or cancelled on five stated grounds: obtaining it by false statements, discontinuing studies, changing the subject of the course or the institution without the Secretary's prior approval, failing to make satisfactory progress or being irregular in attendance or guilty of misconduct during the academic year, and the parent ceasing to be an employee of the establishment (Scheme III regulations, Goa Labour Welfare Board).

The note printed under that list is what makes those five grounds expensive. If any of them is found to have happened after the money has already been paid, the amount is recovered forthwith from the student or from the parents. The prior approval clause reaches further than it looks, because a mid year transfer between colleges or a change of subject is an ordinary academic decision that this scheme puts behind the Secretary's approval.

Get help

Contact

The Goa Labour Welfare Board keeps its own office on the 4th floor of Shrama Shakti Bhavan at Patto Plaza in Panaji, on 0832-2437083 and at glwbpanaji@gmail.com (Contact Us, Goa Labour Welfare Board). The Office of the Commissioner, Labour and Employment is downstairs on the 2nd floor of the same building, on 0832-2437081 and at com-labo.goa@nic.in (Citizen's Charter, Labour Department, Government of Goa).

Outside Panaji, the department's 2016 citizen charter lists a Deputy Labour Commissioner's office at Margao, Assistant Labour Commissioners at Vasco da Gama, Mapusa and Ponda, and Labour Inspectors at Bicholim and Curchorem (Citizen's Charter, Labour Department, Government of Goa).

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