The directorate of the urban affairs Government of Kerala has announced Ayyankali Urban Employment Guarantee Scheme 2023. The aim of the scheme is to provide at least 100 days of employment in a financial year to the elderly member of every family who is willing to work. Interested applicants who find themselves eligible can submit their registration. To check the eligibility criteria and other scheme-related information, you must read this article’s section. From this article, you will get eligibility criteria, the step-by-step application process, benefits, and other essential details about the scheme.
About Ayyankali Urban Employment Guarantee Scheme
Ayyankali Urban Employment Guarantee Scheme has provided the opportunity to the people of the state to get guaranteed employment for about a hundred days. All the eligible applicants who made the certain eligibility criteria mentioned in this article can submit their applications. The application form-filling process is through offline mode. Step-by-step instructions to fill out the offline application are available in the section of the article under the head application procedure.
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Highlights Of Ayyankali Urban Employment Guarantee Scheme
- Name of the scheme: Ayyankali Urban Employment Guarantee Scheme
- Launched by: Directorate of Urban Affairs, Government of Kerala.
- Launched for: people of Kerala
- Benefits: employment opportunity
- Mode of application: offline
- Official site: www.auegskerala.gov.in
Objective Of Ayyankali Urban Employment Guarantee Scheme
There are many people across the state who are willing to work. Due to many reasons, they are not able to find a job for themselves. Under this scheme, the Government of Kerala has decided to provide at least 100 days of employment in a financial year To the eligible candidates of each family to work as unskilled labor in urban areas.
Benefits/ Features Of Ayyankali Urban Employment Guarantee Scheme
- The applicant will get a job card within 15 days of registration with the municipality
- An applicant who has a job card can apply for the employment
- An adult member of the urban family will get employment for about a hundred days a year
- Women applicants will get priority for the employment
- The applicant will get medical benefits free of cost if he or she gets injured or ill on the job
- If the applicant becomes injured due to a work accident, he/ she will be entitled to get a daily wage of not less than half the allowable wages under the scheme
- If the applicant dies or is permanently disabled at the workplace his legal nominee will get an ex gratia of rupees 50000
- Applicants will get compensation if the payment gets delayed with then the 14 days of work
Work Type Under Scheme
Applicants will get the employee to pursue the following type of work under this scheme:
- Constructions for water conservation and hydrology such as underground dykes, earthen ponds, dams (stop dams) and check dams
- Watershed maintenance activities such as contour trenches, terracing, contour bunds, quarries, gabion structures, and fostering of a fountain area
- Micro and minor irrigation works, construction, restoration, and maintenance of canals /canals
- Restoration of conventional water sources
- Public land development works
- Development of fallow or wasteland and adaptation to agriculture
- Many other relevant works.
Eligibility Criteria
- Applicant should be a permanent resident of Kerala
- Applicants must be willing to work unskilled labor
- Age of the applicant must be above than 18 years
- Applicant must belong to below poverty line or economically weaker section categories
- Applicant must have a bank account
Documents Required
- Aadhar card
- Address proof
- Age proof
- BPL and EWS certificate
- Bank account details
- Passport size photograph
- Other significant documents
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Application Procedure Scheme 2023
- To seek an application for the scheme candidates have to visit the nearby municipality office
- Applicants have to get the application form from the office
- Fill in the necessary details in the application form like
- Name
- Father name
- Date of birth
- Aadhar card number
- Gender
- Mobile number
- Address etc.
- Complete the application form and stick your passport-size image on it
- Attach all the necessary documents with the application form
- Review the information very carefully once
- Submit an application to the same office
- Application will be reviewed by the authorities
- Job card will be issued to you within 15 days and work will provide also