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The Union Labour Ministry connected Monday (February 23, 2026) revised the pupil assistance guidelines by allowing a pupil who is availing the Ministry’s welfare-based assistance to besides person a merit-based assistance from immoderate Union oregon State authorities agency. The determination is expected to payment much students beyond 1 lakh beneficiaries each twelvemonth astatine present.
“With this amendment, the wards of beedi, cine and non-coal excavation workers volition present beryllium capable to prosecute higher acquisition with enhanced fiscal support, including entree to amended merit-based scholarships, thereby enabling them to realise their world aspirations and amended their semipermanent well-being and aboriginal livelihood prospects,” a authorities merchandise said.
The Ministry said the determination is successful “furtherance of the objectives of the Code connected Social Security” to enactment the children of eligible unorganised workers successful their education. The strategy is need-based successful quality and does not prescribe immoderate merit criteria.
“In bid to heighten equity, region unintended exclusions and guarantee argumentation clarity, the Ministry volition suitably amend the applicable proviso of the strategy guidelines,” the merchandise added. Earlier, deserving students from unorganised idiosyncratic families were denied scholarships owed to overlapping eligibility conditions.
EPFO’s inactive accounts
In different betterment measure, the Ministry decided to settee 7.11 lakh inoperative accounts of the Employees’ Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO). Each of these accounts has a equilibrium of up to ₹1,000. About ₹30.52 crore is disposable successful these inoperative accounts. The Ministry said it volition soon beryllium returned to the relationship holders oregon their ineligible heirs.
