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Non-Resident Keralites Welfare Fund Pravasi Schem

The Non-Resident Keralites Welfare Fund Act, 2008 has developed some welfare schemes for the benefits of Non-Resident Keralites, such as pension scheme, family pension scheme, pension scheme for invalids, scheme for financial assistance to dependents of a deceased member, scheme for financial assistance for medical treatment, accident cum-death insurance scheme, scheme for assistance for marriage of daughters of members, scheme for payment of financial assistance for maternity, scheme for payment of educational grant, scheme for payment of loan for housing & self-employment, etc.

The Schemes Comes Under this Categroy


Pension Scheme
Those Non Resident Keralites (Abroad-Form 1A) who remitted contributions to the Welfare Fund continuously up to the age of sixty are eligible for a monthly pension of Rs. 1,000/- (Rupees One thousand only) after the age of sixty.

Similarly those Keralites who repatriated from abroad (Form 1B) for permanent settlement in Kerala and remitted contributions continuously up to the age of sixty are eligible for a monthly pension of Rs. 500/- (Rupees Five hundred only).

Family Pension Scheme

If a member who is eligible for super annuation pension has deceased, any one of his family members (wife, children below the age of twenty one years, insane children, major unmarried daughter, dependent mother, dependent father) shall be eligible for family pension of an amount equivalent to fifty percent of the eligible pension for the deceased member.

III Pension Scheme for Invalids
In the case of persons who have remitted contributions continuously for a minimum period of three years and are unable to perform labour / incapable for undertaking any an employment due to conditions of physical deformity are eligible for an amount as Invalid Pension.

IV Scheme for financial assistance to dependents of a deceased member
(i) In case a member of the Welfare Fund (abroad-Form 1A) deceases due to illness or accident, one of his/her dependents (wife / husband, minor children, unmarried daughter, widowed daughter, mother, father, sister, brother and other legal heirs) is eligible for a maximum financial assistance of Rs. 50,000/- (Rupees Fifty thousand only)

(ii) In case a member NRK (Form 1B) deceases, one of his/her family members (as stated above in sub. Para (i)) is eligible for a maximum financial assistance of Rs. 30,000/- (Rupees Thirty thousand only)

V Scheme for Financial Assistance for Medical Treatment
A member NRK who is afflicted with critical illness is eligible for obtaining a maximum financial assistance of Rs. 50,000/- (Rupees Fifty thousand only) during the entire period of his/her membership.

Contact Details
Head Office at Thiruvananthapuram (Jurisdiction: Thiruvananthapuram, Kollam, Pathanamthitta)
NORKA CENTRE [II Floor],
Near Govt Guest House, Thycaud PO
Thiruvananthapuram - 695014

Ph : 0471-2785500
Fax : 0471-2785501