Godhan Nyay Yojana
The state buys your cattle's dung at ₹2 a kilo and its urine at ₹4 a litre at the village Gauthan, turns it into organic manure, and pays you every fortnight.
Run by: Department of Agriculture Development, Farmer Welfare and Biotechnology, Government of Chhattisgarh
- Cow dung rate
- ₹2 per kg, no quantity limit
- Cow urine rate
- ₹4 per litre
- Vermicompost resale
- ₹8 per kg to farmers
- Payment cycle
- Fortnightly, via DBT
- Collection points
- 7,000+ village Gauthans
- Cumulative (to Aug 2022)
- ~73.5 lakh quintals, ₹147cr paid
- Women beneficiaries
- ~45% of sellers
Overview
For most cattle-rearing families, dung was a daily clean-up problem, not an income line. Godhan Nyay Yojana, launched on 20 July 2020, flips that around: the Chhattisgarh government buys the dung itself, at a fixed ₹2 per kilogram, with cow urine added later at ₹4 per litre, and there is no ceiling on how much a household can sell.
The collection point is the village Gauthan — Chhattisgarh has built more than 7,000 of them — where the dung and urine you bring are weighed and logged against your name. Women's self-help groups working at the Gauthan then turn the dung into vermicompost, which is sold back to farmers at ₹8 per kilogram as a cheap organic alternative to chemical fertiliser; the state has also planned a wider product line beyond compost, including biogas and bio-pesticides, from the same Gauthan supply chain. Payment for what you sell is made roughly every 15 days by Direct Benefit Transfer to your registered bank account, and the scheme continues to run under the current state government.
Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel launched the scheme with a revolving fund structure — a ₹500 crore rolling allocation backed by ₹100 crore in seed money, both meant to be recovered and recycled rather than spent once. Within its first two weeks it had already paid out ₹1.6 crore to 46,964 herders for 82,711 quintals of dung; by August 2022 the cumulative total had grown to about 7.35 million quintals purchased and roughly ₹147.06 crore paid out. Balod, Dhamtari, Durg, Raipur and Rajnandgaon have been among the leading districts by volume, and of the scheme's cattle-rearer beneficiaries, a large share are landless villagers and nearly 45% are women.
What you get
The benefit as the state notifies it — nothing here is an estimate.
- No cap on quantity — sell as much dung as your herd produces, at a fixed ₹2 per kilogram.
- Cow urine is also purchased, at ₹4 per litre, adding a second income line from the same animal.
- Payment lands roughly every 15 days by DBT, not a lump sum you wait months for.
- The dung you sell comes back to the village as ₹8-per-kg vermicompost, cutting the local chemical-fertiliser bill too.
- Women's self-help groups run the composting work at the Gauthan, earning from the processing side of the same chain.
Who is eligible
State schemes usually state their criteria as prose rather than a checklist. This is that prose, unpacked — the department’s verification is what decides.
You qualify if
- Cattle-rearer or farmer who owns or grazes cattle in a village with a functioning Gauthan
- Landless cattle-rearers can register and sell too — land ownership is not a condition
- Dung and urine sold in person, or through the registered herd owner, at the notified Gauthan collection point
- Bank account registered in the seller's own name for the DBT payment
Not covered
- Dung or urine not brought to a registered Gauthan collection point
- Sales made without registering with the local Gauthan management committee
- Dung adulterated with soil, sand or other material to inflate its weight
Documents you need
Have these ready before you start — most rejections are a missing paper, not a missing right.
- Aadhaar card
- Bank passbook or account details
- Cattle ownership or grazing declaration, as applicable
- Registration with the local Gauthan Samiti (management committee)
How to apply
Fewer steps than a central scheme, and usually one office rather than a portal.
- 1
Register at your village Gauthan
Give your name, Aadhaar and bank details to the Gauthan management committee to get listed as a dung and urine seller.
- 2
Sell at the collection point
Bring dung and urine to the Gauthan; the quantity is weighed and logged against your name each time you sell.
- 3
Get paid every fortnight
The quantity logged in your name over the period is totalled and paid by DBT to your registered bank account roughly every 15 days.
If something goes wrong
Missing from the list, or payment stuck — here is the channel the department itself publishes for it.
- For a weighing dispute, a missed payment, or a Gauthan not accepting your dung, first raise it with the local Gauthan Samiti (management committee) or the block-level agriculture/animal husbandry office.
- If unresolved, escalate through the Chhattisgarh CM Helpline — call 1076 (toll-free, 24/7) or use cmhelpline.cg.gov.in — or the state's Jan Shikayat public grievance portal, which lets you track a complaint and reopen it via Jan Chaupal if the first response is not satisfactory.
Frequently asked questions
Is there a limit on how much dung I can sell?
No. There is no quantity cap — you can sell whatever your herd produces at the fixed ₹2-per-kg rate.
I don't own land — can I still register?
Yes. Landless cattle-rearers register and sell too; the scheme is built around cattle-rearing and grazing, not land ownership.
What happens to the dung after I sell it?
Women's self-help groups at the Gauthan process it into vermicompost, which is then sold to farmers at ₹8 per kilogram as organic manure. The state has also planned other products — biogas and bio-pesticides among them — from the same supply chain.
When did this scheme start, and how is it funded?
Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel launched it on 20 July 2020, backed by a ₹500 crore rolling fund and ₹100 crore in seed money — both structured to be recovered and recycled rather than spent once, which is part of why the scheme has stayed running for years rather than being a one-season announcement.
Has this scheme actually paid out at scale, or is it mostly symbolic?
It has real scale: within its first fortnight it paid ₹1.6 crore to nearly 47,000 herders, and by August 2022 the cumulative total had reached about 7.35 million quintals of dung purchased and roughly ₹147 crore paid out, with close to 45% of beneficiaries being women.
Facts checked against godhannyay.cgstate.gov.in on 8 September 2026. editorial policy.