Stipend Scheme For Poultry Farming Training For Weaker Section(SSPFTWS)

Overview

About SSPFTWS

The Stipend Scheme for Poultry Farming Training for Weaker Section gives an adult from Gujarat's economically weaker sections up to Rs 2,000 for sitting a six-day course in poultry keeping at a centre of the state's Directorate of Animal Husbandry (myScheme listing, archived copy). "Weaker section" has a paperwork meaning here. The department's resolution lets you prove it with a below-poverty-line, rural-poor or urban-poor certificate and names no rupee income limit (resolution ACD/PAR/e-file/2/2024/3837/P1).

That resolution of the Agriculture, Farmers Welfare and Cooperation Department, approved on 20-06-2026, is the paper that now governs the stipend. Its first annexure is the stipend's own rulebook, written for economically weaker beneficiaries, and its budget table for ૨૦૨૬-૨૭, the financial year that began in April 2026, carries two lines a weaker-section trainee should know about: a stipend line of Rs ૦.૪૪ crore (forty-four lakh rupees), and Rs ૧.૨૦ crore (one crore twenty lakh rupees) for a separate scheme to develop economically weaker people through poultry keeping, which supplies each beneficiary with a small flock of RIR (Rhode Island Red) or Kadaknath birds (resolution). The stipend is the way in; the birds are the second step, and only a trainee can take it.

How many weaker-section trainees the stipend pays in a year is not published. The Directorate's Poultry Development Branch gives only pooled totals for 2025-26, 6555 under poultry farming training and 6400 RIR birds produced for beneficiaries, with no line for this scheme or for any category of trainee (Directorate activity table).

Who runs it

Provider

At a glance

Key details

Calendar

Important dates

The weaker-section package lives on annual approvals, and none of the papers prints a closing date for the stipend. The dates on record:

The two provisions cover the whole package, of which the stipend is one line; the resolution also writes the current one out in words, "સાત કરોડ ઓગણપચાસ લાખ". Because the bird unit is tied to the year of training, a course taken late in the financial year leaves little time to claim the birds.

Who can apply

Eligibility criteria

Annexure 1 of the resolution sets three tests for the stipend: the applicant belongs to an economically weaker section of Gujarat State, files proof of income along with the application, and makes that proof one of three documents: a below-poverty-line certificate, a rural-poor certificate or an urban-poor certificate (resolution). So the income rule is a certificate test, not a salary figure you calculate yourself. The same annexure puts women applicants first.

The myScheme listing adds that the applicant must be an adult, and it gives priority to women and to below-poverty-line applicants (myScheme listing, archived copy). The annexure is silent on land, farming experience and education, which leaves the poverty certificate as the real gate.

Who cannot apply

Exclusions

myScheme publishes no exclusion list for this scheme. Read against the resolution, three kinds of applicant are left out:

• A family that has already had it. Only one member of a family can take the stipend, and only once in a lifetime (resolution).
• An applicant without a poverty certificate. The annexure makes the below-poverty-line, rural-poor or urban-poor certificate part of the application itself, so on the resolution's terms an application without one does not meet the income condition.
• A past trainee who wants the birds later. The weaker-section bird unit goes only to people who took the poultry training in the same financial year, so a course finished in an earlier year does not qualify for it.

Continuation

Renewal conditions

Neither benefit comes round a second time. Annexure 1 allows the stipend to one member of a family once in a lifetime, and the conditions for the weaker-section bird unit repeat that limit (resolution).

Older material said otherwise about the birds. An earlier myScheme card for the bird unit, in its archived copy, let the same family claim the unit again after 3 years (myScheme bird-unit card, archived copy). Neither the resolution nor the Directorate's current page repeats that three-year return; both hold the unit, like the stipend, to one member per family, once in a lifetime (Directorate scheme page), so a household gets a single turn at each.

What you get

Award & benefits

The stipend is worked out as Rs 300 a day for the six days, which comes to Rs 1,800, plus Rs 200 as the fare to the centre and back, for a maximum of Rs 2,000 (myScheme listing, archived copy). The resolution itself prints only the total, Rs ૨૦૦૦ (two thousand rupees), paid by DBT straight into the account of the trainee who takes the six-day course, with a certificate bearing the trainee's photograph once the training is over (resolution).

Finishing the course also qualifies you for the weaker-section bird unit, for which the state meets 75% of the cost, capped at Rs 6,000, and pays it in kind as 25 RIR birds and poultry feed rather than money (myScheme bird-unit card, archived copy). The resolution's costing sheet for the unit shows where that share goes and what you are expected to bring:

Read in ordinary digits (the Gujarati ૦ to ૯ are 0 to 9), the state's Rs ૬૦૦૦ is the Rs 6,000 cap on the myScheme card, and the Rs ૨૦૦૦ you bring is the remaining quarter of a Rs ૮૦૦૦ unit (resolution; myScheme bird-unit card, archived copy).

That quarter is paid in housing and utensils, not in cash. In return the resolution asks you to keep the flock going for two years in normal circumstances, to call the centre's officer as soon as a bird falls ill, and to open your income and expense record to any officer who visits, while the centre takes charge of vaccinating the birds on time. The state's Rs ૬૦૦૦ share of each 25-bird unit is spent only with the financial approval of the divisional Joint Director of Animal Husbandry (resolution).

• The beneficiary will be given maximum ₹2000 (direct in bank account) stipend for six days training. (Considering ₹300/- per day, ₹1800/- for 6 days as daily allowance and ₹200/- as to & fro transport fare with the maximum total stipend ₹2000/-)
• Beneficiary will be given poultry training certificate after completion of training.

What to prepare

Documents required

myScheme's document list names an income proof certificate and, separately, a below-poverty-line card "if applicable". Under the resolution those collapse into one requirement, because the income proof it wants is the poverty certificate itself: below-poverty-line, rural-poor or urban-poor (resolution). The caste certificate on the same list is not one of the weaker-section annexure's conditions; the Directorate, whose page serves Scheduled Caste, Scheduled Tribe and weaker-section applicants together, asks for caste certificates only where applicable (Directorate scheme page).

Next to the poverty certificate, the iKhedut conditions on the resolution's last page want a copy of the barcoded ration card with the signed printout, plus the Aadhaar card where its number was typed into the form (resolution). Any scan you upload, the poverty certificate included, has to be a PDF no larger than 200 KB (myScheme listing, archived copy).

Step by step

How to apply

The stipend and the 25-bird unit are claimed through different channels. iKhedut takes the stipend application, as both the resolution and the Directorate's current conditions require, whereas the 25-bird unit is claimed on paper at the poultry centre once the course is done (Directorate scheme page). myScheme's older card for the unit had it filed on iKhedut too, and it lists income proof and proof of completed training among its papers (myScheme bird-unit card, archived copy).

On timing, the June 2026 resolution lists the online application before the course (resolution), whereas the Directorate's page and the undated one-page guideline it still links both have you train first and apply afterwards (iKhedut implementation guideline). For a weaker-section applicant the order decides when the poverty certificate is needed: annexure 1 wants it with the application, so if your centre follows the resolution the certificate has to be in hand before the batch starts.

1. Get the certificate first. Without the below-poverty-line, rural-poor or urban-poor certificate the application has nothing to prove your eligibility with.
2. Register and apply on iKhedut. The portal registers you against your Aadhaar and mobile numbers (resolution). Once the form is saved, the clock for confirming it is seven days, and what the office treats as your application is the printout of the confirmed form rather than the entry on the portal (myScheme listing, archived copy).
3. Sign the printout and send your papers. Put your signature or thumb impression on it (iKhedut implementation guideline). The poverty certificate and the ration card and Aadhaar copies then go with it, uploaded as scans or handed to the office named on the application within 7 days (resolution).
4. Attend all six days. Annexure 1 has the centre keep an attendance register for the course and give a certificate with your photograph when it ends (resolution); keep that certificate, because the bird unit asks for proof of the training.
5. Claim the birds in the same financial year. File the paper application for the 25-bird unit at the Intensive Poultry Development Project office or District Poultry Extension Centre, with your proof of training, before the financial year closes (Directorate scheme page).

Following an Application Through iKhedut

The portal conditions at the end of the resolution give an application three stages to pass: arrival at the office inside the 7-day limit, an online eligibility check, and pre-approval on iKhedut by the component officer (resolution). For a weaker-section applicant that eligibility check is the stage the poverty certificate has to clear, and the listing warns that papers uploaded wrong or incomplete keep an application from being inwarded online at all (myScheme listing, archived copy).

The bird-unit card on myScheme, archived in May 2025, sent applicants to an Applicant Corner page on iKhedut to see their application status and to view, print or upload their papers (myScheme bird-unit card, archived copy). Today that page only sends visitors on to the rebuilt portal's home page, so a status search has to begin at iKhedut itself.

Annexure 1 hands the payment to the office that ran the course, and its fourth condition sends the stipend by DBT to your own account; with no payment tracker described in any of these papers, your bank statement is where the credit shows and that office is where to ask if it does not (resolution).

How winners are picked

Selection process

The weaker-section papers set no test for the stipend, yet meeting every condition is still not enough on its own, because two ceilings sit above the certificate: the district's physical target, which caps the component officer's pre-approvals on iKhedut under a procedure the Director of Animal Husbandry sets (Directorate scheme page), and the resolution's first condition, which forbids the Directorate from paying more people, or more money, than its fixed number of beneficiaries and budget allow (resolution).

Here the listing's priority rule meets the resolution's proof rule. All three poverty certificates satisfy the resolution, but the myScheme listing words its priority for below-poverty-line applicants, alongside women (myScheme listing, archived copy), so a below-poverty-line certificate may bring priority as well as eligibility, which the rural-poor and urban-poor certificates are not described as doing. An applicant who also holds a valid disability certificate can claim the ૫% (five per cent) reservation that the resolution applies across its whole package under the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act, 2016 (resolution).

Fine print

Terms & conditions

• No cash at any stage. The one-page guideline allows only RTGS, NEFT or e-payment into the beneficiary's account (iKhedut implementation guideline), and the resolution's general conditions tie all its assistance to DBT (resolution); without a bank account in your own name the stipend cannot be paid.
• Records on both sides. Your six days are logged in the centre's attendance register, and the resolution requires the scheme to be registered on the DBT portal and to face social audit and third-party verification from time to time (resolution).

Get help

Contact

Six Intensive Poultry Development Project components appear in the resolution, at Makarba, Surat, Nadiad, Rajkot, Mehsana and Vyara, along with the District Poultry Extension Centre at Ahwa, and annexure 1 makes whichever office runs your batch the one that pays you (resolution). A doubt about whether your poverty certificate will be accepted, or about a stipend that never arrived, is therefore one for that office.

Beyond the centres, the resolution goes on copy to the Directorate's Poultry Development Branch (resolution), and a letter for the Directorate of Animal Husbandry on a weaker-section application can be addressed to B-Block, 2nd floor, Krishibhavan, Sector-10A, Ch-Road, Gandhinagar-382010, or emailed to dir-anml@gujarat.gov.in (Directorate contact page). The two reference links myScheme gives for this scheme, a guideline PDF and a poultry subsidy-schemes page, no longer open on the Directorate's site; the weaker-section terms sit on the scheme page the Directorate shares between Scheduled Caste, Scheduled Tribe and weaker-section applicants.

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