Son/Daughter Education Assistance (UKBOCWWB)(SDEA(UKBOCWWB))

Overview

About SDEA(UKBOCWWB)

Two things decide this benefit before any of the class-wise amounts matter. It is claimed against a Uttarakhand labour card, in the registered construction worker's name rather than the student's, and it can be filed only between November of the financial year the child took admission in and June of the next session. On a file that arrives after that, the board's published condition is that it will not be considered.

The board pays a flat yearly sum towards the education of a registered construction worker's children, stepped by the class the child is in and rising for degree and vocational study. It is a welfare-fund benefit rather than an award: the fund exists because the state collects a cess of 1 percent of construction cost under the Building and Other Construction Workers Welfare Cess Act, 1996 and the central cess rules of 1998, and the board that spends it was constituted by state notification number 2178 dated 31-10-2005 under the 1996 employment Act, whose Uttarakhand rules were framed in 2005 (UKBOCWWB, Mission and Objectives).

That origin explains the shape of the scheme. Nowhere in the board's published conditions is there a merit bar, an income slab or a caste test, because the work that earns the benefit was done by the parent and was examined once already, at registration. What a means test would ordinarily do is done here by continuity instead: the membership has to be current when the claim goes in, and in Uttarakhand it runs in three-year blocks rather than being renewed every year.

Who runs it

Provider

At a glance

Key details

Calendar

Important dates

The scheme has no annual advertisement and no closing date on its record, because the window is set by the student's own admission year instead of by a notification. Applications are accepted from the month of November in the financial year in which admission was taken, up to the month of June of the next education session, and the board states that applications received after that are not considered (UKBOCWWB, Scheme Details).

Read against the Indian academic year, that is a window of eight months which opens some months after the child has already started the class, not on the day of admission. The other date to hold is private to the household: the day the worker's registration completes 3 years and needs its renewal deposit (UKBOCWWB, Mission and Objectives).

Who can apply

Eligibility criteria

Read the board's conditions in the order it applies them and the parent comes first. A construction worker can register after completing 18 years of age and before completing the superannuation age of 60, on proof of at least 90 days of work as a construction worker during the preceding year, and the registration granted is valid for 3 years from its date (UKBOCWWB, Mission and Objectives). Every claim a child has runs against the number that registration produces.

On the student's side the reach is wide rather than selective. The board's table starts at Class 1 and carries on through graduation and postgraduation into ITI and vocational study, with the amount set by the level rather than by marks (UKBOCWWB, Scheme Details). The scheme record limits it to two children of the same worker, so a third child in school adds no third claim.

Who cannot apply

Exclusions

The bar that catches most families is a bar on stacking, and it is printed on the board's own school certificate rather than in any published list of exclusions. The principal has to state that neither the student nor the parents were given financial assistance from any state or central education scheme through that institution in the financial year being claimed, and that no such entry exists in the institution's records; on the same sheet the worker declares that no such assistance was taken and that no application for it was made in any other department (UKBOCWWB, certificate issued by the educational institution). A child already drawing a departmental scholarship is therefore outside this benefit rather than eligible for both.

The second bar is administrative. A registration that has gone dormant is not a registration, and dormancy is ordinary rather than rare: the board's dashboard, read on 5 September 2026, carried 735,666 workers registered, 557,098 of them verified, 332,225 counted active and 219,522 counted inactive (UKBOCWWB dashboard). Those counters move with the register, so treat them as one day's reading. The column worth noticing is the inactive one, and a family sitting in it has to restore the membership before the claim behind it goes anywhere.

Continuation

Renewal conditions

Two clocks run under this benefit and only one of them belongs to the scheme. The assistance is annual, so each session the child studies is a fresh application rather than a continuation of the last one (UKBOCWWB, Scheme Details).

The other clock belongs to the labour card. The registration is valid for 3 years, and to carry it into the next block the worker must deposit Rs 100 before those 3 years end, at the registration office where the card was issued (UKBOCWWB, Mission and Objectives). A deposit skipped in the third year is what empties an education claim filed in the fourth, and the sum involved is small enough to be forgotten twice over.

What you get

Award & benefits

Four rows of the board's table are flat annual figures. The fifth is not a figure at all: ITI and vocational study is paid at a rate equivalent to the annual fee of a government institute or college, which stays the benchmark whatever a private institute charges. The scheme record files polytechnic courses in that same row.

How the money arrives is worth reading closely, because the rule and the practice sit at an angle to each other. The board records that rule 281 of the Uttarakhand Building and Other Construction Workers (Regulation of Employment and Conditions of Service) Rules provides for education assistance on a six-monthly basis, and then states that where its first condition is satisfied the amount due will be made available in one go for the whole academic session, according to the registered worker's eligibility (UKBOCWWB, Scheme Details). One credit for the session, then, not two half-yearly ones.

• Financial assistance for education will be provided to the children of construction workers at the following rates:
• Sl. No.Class/CourseFinancial Assistance (Yearly)1Class 1 to 5₹1,800/-2Class 6 to 10₹2,400/-3Class 11 to 12₹3,000/-4Graduation/Post Graduation or its equivalent₹10,000/-5ITI, Polytechnic courses or higher educationThe course fee will be payable to the Government Institutions / College.

What to prepare

Documents required

Two of the papers on the board's list are not ordinary attachments and are worth starting first, because both need someone else's signature. The educational institution's certificate is a printed board form: the school or college pastes the student's latest colour passport-size photograph in school uniform, the principal attests that photograph, and the principal then certifies the session, the class and that the child is studying there as an institutional student (UKBOCWWB, certificate issued by the educational institution). The same sheet carries the no-other-assistance certification, so a principal who signs it is signing for the institution's records as well as for attendance.

The second is the self-declaration the worker signs, which repeats that undertaking in the worker's own name. The rest is ordinary documentary proof, with one item that trips up a family filing for an older child: an attested copy of the previous year's marksheet, which the record waives only for Class 1.

Step by step

How to apply

Uttarakhand splits the counter work between two kinds of centre, and the split is the part people get wrong. Worker registration is done at the nearest Jan Seva Kendra, while a scheme application and a registration renewal are both handled at the nearest Shram Suvidha Kendra (UKBOCWWB); myScheme records the application mode for this scheme as online through a CSC, which is the same counter seen from the other side. Walking into a common service centre with an education claim and no labour card is the usual wasted trip.

The paper route behind the counter is prescribed. The application has to relate to the current education session and be verified by the principal or head of department of the institution concerned, and it is then placed before the office of the Secretary of the Welfare Board with the recommendation of the registration officer for that area (UKBOCWWB, Scheme Details). The registration officer is a step, not a formality, and a file that never reaches that officer never reaches the board.

Tracking is done on the board's own site rather than by phone. The scheme application status page asks for the registration number or the scheme application number, the date of birth held against that registration and a captcha, and returns the state of the claim (UKBOCWWB, scheme application status). A second page does the checks that decide whether a claim can succeed at all, with one lookup for the worker's full registration record and a separate lookup for the contribution history against a registration or renewal number (UKBOCWWB, worker registration status). Run the contribution lookup before filing, not after a claim goes quiet.

How winners are picked

Selection process

Eligibility is the whole test. Nothing the board publishes ranks one child against another or sets a cut-off, so what stands between a complete application and a payment is verification: the institution's attestation, the recommendation of the registration officer for the area, and the board's consideration of files that arrived inside the window (UKBOCWWB, Scheme Details).

What is missing is a clock. The board's Right to Service page notifies two services and no more, the registration of establishments and workers and their renewal, each at 30 days, counted in working days from the day a complete application is received, and each with a named first and second appellate authority (UKBOCWWB, Right to Service). A stalled education claim has no equivalent statutory deadline behind it, which is an argument for filing in November rather than in June.

Fine print

Terms & conditions

The conditions the board attaches are few, and each has a practical edge. The application must belong to the current education session and carry the institution's verification. The amount released is measured against the registered worker's eligibility for the whole academic session and paid in a single instalment. And for ITI and vocational study the payable amount tracks government institution fees rather than the fee the student is actually charged (UKBOCWWB, Scheme Details).

One further condition sits on the form rather than in that list, and it binds the school as much as the family. Because the principal certifies against the institution's own records, an assistance drawn quietly through the school in the same financial year is visible at the point of signature.

Get help

Contact

Uttarakhand Building and Other Construction Workers Welfare Board, Labour Department, Government of Uttarakhand, third floor, GMVN Building, Rajpur Road, Dehradun 248001; email ukbocw@gmail.com; toll free 1800 2127 174 (UKBOCWWB contact details). Day to day, the two working desks are the Shram Suvidha Kendra that files and renews, and the registration officer for the area whose recommendation the claim needs.

Source

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Frequently asked questions

From the official scheme FAQ (myScheme)

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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.

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