Friends, are you a worker and need financial assistance for your children’s higher education? If so, apply for this scheme today. The Karnataka government has implemented a good educational incentive scheme for higher education of organized workers under the Karnataka Workers’ Welfare Board for your help, and the application process has already begun.

Labour Welfare Board Scholarship 2026

Children of unorganized workers who pay contributions to the Karnataka Workers Welfare Board can apply for this scheme. The children should be studying in any course from compulsory secondary education to postgraduate or medical degree in the current year 2026-27. And the family’s monthly income should not exceed Rs. 35,000/-.

In the present article, complete information has been given on how to apply for the Educational Incentive Scheme for Workers’ Children? Who is eligible to apply? What are the required documents? How much subsidy is provided according to each course? What are the benefits of the scheme? Eligible and interested students should read all this information and apply by the specified date.

Scheme Overview:

Scheme Name	Karnataka Labour Welfare Board Educational Incentive Scheme
Implementing Agency	Karnataka Labour Welfare Board
Eligible Students	Children of Organized Workers
Amount of Incentive Available	Rs. 20,000/-
Application Mode	Online
Last Date for Application	31-12-2026

What is Karnataka Labour Welfare Board Educational Incentive Scheme?

The Karnataka Government has implemented the Karnataka Labour Welfare Board Educational Incentive Scheme to provide financial assistance for the higher education of the children of organised workers. This scheme has been implemented with the aim of ensuring that the children of organised workers should not be deprived of higher education due to financial and poverty.
Under this scheme, two children of organised workers can get financial assistance, and the children must be studying in professional courses including high school education, graduation, post-graduation, medical degree, engineering and other courses.

Objective of the scheme:

By providing educational assistance to the children of poor and economically distressed organized workers with a monthly salary of Rs. 35,000/-, the dream of higher education of the children of the workers will come true and the financial burden on the parents will be reduced.

To encourage the children of organized workers to pursue higher education by providing financial assistance to them, from secondary education to graduation, post-graduation, medical and other professional courses.

By providing this financial assistance based on the marks obtained by the students in the previous academic year, the aim is to instill a competitive spirit among the students and to make them interested in studies.

The aim of this scheme is to prevent education from being cut short due to financial problems by providing financial assistance to the children of talented organized workers.

Benefits of scheme:

Educational assistance is provided to the children of organized workers according to the courses they are pursuing. This helps the students pay their school and college fees, purchase necessary books and meet other educational expenses.

The children of organized laborers can avail financial assistance through the Karnataka Labour Welfare Board Educational Incentive Scheme, which enables them to pursue their dream career by pursuing engineering, medicine and other expensive professional courses without any worries.

The money deposited under this scheme is directly deposited in the bank accounts of the students, so there is no middleman involved. This ensures greater transparency.

Since two children from a family can benefit under this scheme, workers can pursue higher education without any financial pressure on themselves, without any worries.

Details of incentives available under the scheme:

Educational assistance is provided to the children of organized workers according to the courses they are studying. Let us find out in the following steps how much financial assistance will be available to those studying in which courses.

High School: ₹6,000/-
PUC, ITI, Diploma Course: ₹8,000/-
General Degree Course: ₹10,000/-
Post Graduate Degree Course: ₹12,000/-
Engineering, Medical and Other Professional Courses: ₹20,000/-

Eligibility Criteria:

The monthly salary of the parents should not exceed Rs. 35,000/-.
The students should be studying in High School, PUC, ITI, Diploma, Degree, Postgraduate, other professional courses.
The students belonging to Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes should have secured 45% marks in the previous academic year and General Category and OBC candidates should have secured 50% marks.
Only two children of the workers can avail the benefit under this scheme.
The father or mother should be working as a registered worker.
The parents should be regularly paying the Labour Welfare Fund contribution to the Karnataka Labour Welfare Board.

Required Documents:

Student’s Aadhar Card
Parent’s Aadhar Card
Marksheet of previous academic years
School/College Fee Receipt
Caste and Income Certificate
Bank Passbook Copy
Passport Size Photograph of Students
Parent’s Employment Certificate
Contribution Payment Receipt

How to apply:

Eligible students should first visit the official portal of Karnataka Labour Welfare Board https://klwb.karnataka.gov.in/.
If you are a new user, click on the New Registration link.
Then fill in the basic details and enter the OTP to complete the registration process.
Then log in using the login ID and password.
Then click on the Educational Incentive Grant Application 2026-27 link that appears on the screen.
Fill in the student’s personal details, educational details, marks details and other necessary information.
Upload all the necessary documents mentioned above and click on the submit button to apply.

Official notification link

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Final Decision:

The Karnataka Government has released an online application to provide educational incentives to the children of organized workers who are paying contributions to the Karnataka Labour Welfare Board. The deadline for applying for this scheme is December 31, 2026. Eligible and interested students can apply for this scheme by the specified date and make their dream of higher education come true.

Online Application

Labour: ₹20,000 Scholarship! Big Good News for Workers’ Children! Government Financial Assistance for Higher Education | December 31, 2026 Is the Last Date