No, the volunteers are need to be full-time in order to receive honorarium under this scheme.

The honorarium is ₹ 5000 per volunteer and is provided on monthly basis.

The honorarium will either be paid in cash or paid online.

Every year, a total of 12,000 volunteers shall be deployed at the block level in the country.

Students who have enrolled themselves as a regular students are not eligible for deployment under the scheme, keeping in view of the nature of their full time assignment.

Yes, 50:50 gender ratios should be maintained to the extent possible under this scheme.

There is no reservation as such but participation of weaker sections such as SC/ST community will be encouraged.

No. The entire application process is completely free of cost.

The format can be found in Annexure-I of the scheme guidelines.

If shortlisted, the applicant is required to bring the filled in application form along with all relevant documents in original as well as photocopy and two recent passport size photographs at the time of interview, if shortlisted.

The mandatory fields have a red asterisk (*) mark at the end.