Last Updated on: September 16, 2026

 

Sl.No.
Name of the Scheme/Programme
Amount in Rs.(in lakh)

1.
Distribution of Power Tiller under FOIGS
150

2.
Pre-Matric Scholarship to Tea Garden etc.
600

3.
Post-Matric Scholarship for Tea and Tea Gardens
300

4.
Financial Assistance for Higher Studies
300

5.
Training of ANM for self Employment
200

6.
Grants to Patients suffering from Cancer & malignant disease
50

7.
Patients Guest House at Guwahati Medical College Hospital (GMCH) premises for Tea Tribes people.
100

8.
Promotion Sports & Youth Welfare Activities
850

(Training for Sports Rs. 700.00 lakh and C.M’s Rs. 150.00)

9.
Purchase of Training Materials/Equipment
100

10.
Furniture and Furnishing material for tea tribes boys & girls hostel
100

11.
Development of Community Centre for Tea Community (SKDCs)
200

12.
Rural Water Supply schemes
500

13.
Grants to Cultural Organization & Promotion of Cultural Activities
150

14.
Electrification of Tea Workers Quarter by ASEB
200

15.
Grants to Non-Official Organization of Welfare
50

16.
Grants to Women SHGs (@ Rs. 25,000/- 1,000 Nos.)
250

17.
Construction of Shillong Guest House
140

18.
Insurance Premium @ Rs. 12.00 to 10.00 lakh beneficiaries registered with ATEPFO
120

19.
Financial assistance @ Rs. 5.00 lakh to 13 martyrs belonging to tea tribes community
65

20.
One time grant of @ Rs. 25,000/- each to 1000 numbers of disabled persons belonging to Tea Tribes Community
100

21.
Awareness programme on child/human trafficking, Family planning, Legal awareness, Health  etc.
100

22.
Publication of Books
5

23.
Online Application system
120

24.
Coaching for Higher Studies
100

 
Total:
4850

Applications & Selection Procedure:
The Sub-divisional Welfare Officers, calls for applications, and based on the allocations, does the selection of beneficiaries and submits the lists to the Directorate.
The Directorate gets the list approved by Chairman, State Level Advisory Committee for Tea Tribes Welfare Department.
The selected beneficiaries avail the schemes through ceremonial distributions (in case of financial grants, e-transfer is done).

Names of Schemes being taken up during2017-18

Objectives

Budget provision
PhysicalTarget

(INR)

Pre-Matric Scholarship to Tea Garden etc.
The objective is to provide stipend to Pre-Matric students belonging to Tea & Ex-Tea Garden Tribes for the benefit of the poor students.
600.00 lakh out of which
45,000 students

 

Post-Matric Scholarship for Tea and Tea Gardens
The objective is to provide stipend to Post-Matric students belonging to Tea & Ex-Tea Garden Tribes for the benefit of the poor students.
300
5,000 students

Financial Assistance for Higher Studies
The objective is to provide financial assistance for higher studies in courses like IIT, IT, MBBS/Medical, MBA, Engineering and such other technical/higher education including higher studies in Administration, Medical, Engineering, Technology, research with and outside the State/Country. for the students belonging to the Tea & Ex-Tea Garden Tribes.
300
1,000

students

Coaching for Higher Studies
The objective of the scheme is to prepare the students, belonging to Tea & Ex-Tea Garden Tribes students, of Class – X for appearing in the HSLC exams and Class – XI & XII for appearing in the test and other exams for selection into the medical and engineering courses.
100
HSLC = 2000 nos.

CL: XI – XII = 1000 nos.

Cl: XII (coaching for entrance) = 100 nos.

Online Application System
The objective is to set online application systems for the benefit of the tea tribes people to avail the schemes of the deptt. like scholarships, financial grants, etc. through online application and disbursal through e-transfer facilities.
120
Set up online application systems in 46 Sub-divisions.

Insurance premium @ Rs. 12.00 each to 10 lakh beneficiaries registered with ATEPFO
The objective is to provide the Rs. 12.00 insurance premium to the 10 lakh beneficiaries, registered with ATEPFO, under Pradhan Mantri Jan SurakshaBimaYojna Policy (PMBSY) for their insurance coverage of up to Rs. 2.00 lakh.
120
10 lakh beneficiaries registered with ATEPFO

Promotion Sports & Youth Welfare Activities
 
150
 1 Football Tournament.

 

 

 
700
2 Football &  2 Archery Academies (30 trainees per centre)  with 120 sports persons undergoing trainings.

 

 

 

 

Grants to Patients suffering from Cancer & malignant disease
The objective of the scheme is to grant financial assistance to patients undergoing medical treatment in connection with T.B., Cancer and other malignant disease.
50
500 nos.

Grants to Cultural Organizations
The objective is to encourage and to inspire the preservation of cultural identity, holding of local, regional and State level cultural meets for cultural development of the Tea Communities including construction of cultural centers.
150
Cultural competitions like dance, etc. in 39 Sub-divisions, culminated by a State level Competition including cultural workshop

Rural Water Supply scheme (deep tube-wells)
The main objective is to provided Deep Tube-well needy tea gardens for availing pure and safe drinking water.
500
20 nos. of deep tube-wells.

Electrification of Tea Workers Quarter by ASEB .
The main objective is to provide energy efficient LED bulbs to poor families from Tea and ex-Tea garden communities, in the State. Each family will be provided with 3 (three) LED bulbs of 15W, 11W and 9W.
200
Total of 1,21,200 LED bulbs will given to 40,400 families.

Patients Guest House at Guwahati Medical Hospital for Tea Tribes people.
The main objective is to facilitate poor Tea Tribes patients visiting Guwahati for medical treatment and also to provide living accommodation during the currency of treatment, where necessary.
100
1 Patient guest house at GMCH premises. (100 bedded rest house)

Financial Assistance @   Rs. 5.00 lakh to 13 martyrs belonging to tea tribes people.
To objective is to financial assistance in the form of one time grant to the families of the 13 martyrs who gave up their lives for the cause of the tea tribes community.
65 .00
Families of 13 martyrs.

Awareness programme on child/human trafficking, family planning, legal rights, health, etc.
The objective is to generate mass awareness among the tea tribes people on the issues of child/human trafficking, family planning, legal rights, health, etc. and to prevent such evil social issues and practices.
100
 

One time grant of Rs. 10,000/- each to 1000  nos. of differently abled persons belonging to tea tribes community
The objective is to provide one time financial assistance to differently abled persons for starting/taking up income generation activities like petty shop, etc. for their self-employment and sustenance.
100
1000 nos. of differently abled persons belonging to tea tribes community.

Rates of Assistance:

Sl. No.
Description
Rates

1.
W
Rs. 10,000/- per SHG

2.
G
Rs. 10,000/- each

3.
G
Rs. 10,000/- to Rs. 1,00,000/- (based on nature of disease)

4.
P
 

5.
Class - I – V
Rs. 300/- per annum

6.
Class - VI – VIII
Rs. 900/- per annum

7.
Class – IX – X
Rs. 3000/- per annum

8.
P
 

9.
Class - XI – XII
Rs. 5,000/- per annum

10.
Class - TDC
Rs. 7,000/- per annum

11.
F
Rates

12.
G
Rs. 35,000/-

13.
G
Rs. 30,000/-

14.
G
Rs. 25,000/-

NB: Students pursuing studies in Open Universities for courses falling under  Group B & C  will be provided financial assistance @ Rs. 10,000/- each Financial  Assistance @ Rs. 20,000/- for ANM & @ 25,000/- for GNM & BSc Nursing.