Parliament Question: Sainik Welfare Office

GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF DEFENCE DEPARTMENT OF EX-SERVICEMEN WELFARE LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 1051 TO BE ANSWERED ON 25th July, 2025 SAINIK WELFARE OFFICE 1051. SHRI RAJKUMAR ROAT: Will the Minister of DEFENCE be pleased to state: (a) whether it is mandatory to have a Sainik Welfare Office in every district in the country; (b) if so, the details of the names of districts in the country having Sainik Welfare Office; (c) whether service centre of Dungarpur, Banswara and Pratapgarh districts have been allotted in Udaipur due to non-availability of Sainik Welfare Office in these districts and if so, the reasons therefor; (d) whether the Government proposes to set up a Sainik Welfare Office and CSD canteen in Dungarpur, Banswara and Pratapgarh districts due to non-availability of CSD canteen in said districts; and (e) if so, the time by which it is likely to be done and if not, the reasons therefor? A N S W E R MINISTER OF STATE (SHRI SANJAY SETH) IN THE MINISTRY OF DEFENCE (a) No, Sir. As per laid down norms, a Zila Sainik Board (ZSB) can be set up by the concerned State Govt, if the strength of population of ESM and families of serving /deceased service personnel is 7500 and above. In places having strength of Ex-Servicemen (ESM) and families of serving/ deceased service personnel less than 7500, State Govt has to obtain prior approval of Department of Ex-Servicemen Welfare, Ministry of Defence. (b) Details are placed at Annexure-I. (c) Yes, Sir. ZSB, Udaipur provides services to districts of Dungarpur, Banswara and Pratapgarh also. The onus of opening any new ZSB in the State lies with Govt of Rajasthan and State Govt has not proposed any ZSB in these 3 districts.(d) & (e) No proposal for opening of new ZSB in these districts has been received from Govt. of Rajasthan. Further, Government also does not propose to set up a CSD canteen in Dungarpur, Banswara and Pratapgarh districts as same is not financially viable due to low dependency and the proposal does not meet the laid down criteria of minimum dependency of 5000 Ex-Servicemen as per policy for opening of Ex-Servicemen Unit Run Canteen. *****ANNEXURE-I REFERRED TO IN REPLY TO PART (b) OF LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 1051 TO BE ANSWERED ON 25.07.2025 REGARDING ‘SAINIK WELFARE OFFICE’ LIST OF RSB/ZSBs WITH DISTRICTS COVERED Ser State/UT No. of Ser Name of ZSB No ZSBs No 1 ZSB, Anantapuramu 2 ZSB, Chittoor 3 ZSB, East Godavari 4 ZSB, Guntur 5 ZSB, Kadapa 6 ZSB, Krishna 7 ZSB, Kurnool 1 Andhra Pradesh 13 8 ZSB, SPS Nellore 9 ZSB, Prakasam 10 ZSB, Srikakulam 11 ZSB, Visakhapatnam 12 ZSB Vizianagaram 13 ZSB West Godavari 0 No ZSB 2 Arunachal Pradesh 0 1 Barpeta 2 Bongaigaon 3 Cachar 4 Darrang 5 Dhubri 6 Dibrugarh 7 Goalpara 8 Golaghat 9 Hailakandi 3 Assam 19 10 Jorhat 11 Kamrup 12 Kamrup (M) 13 Sribhumi (Karimganj) 14 Karbi Anglong 15 Kokrajhar 16 Lakhimpur 17 Nagaon 18 Sivsagar 19 Sonitpur 4 Bihar 25 1 ZSB, Aurangabad2 ZSB, Begusarai 3 ZSB, Bhagalpur 4 ZSB, Bhojpur 5 ZSB, Buxar 6 ZSB, Darbhanga 7 ZSB, East Champaran 8 ZSB, Gaya 9 ZSB, Gopalganj 10 ZSB, Jahanabad 11 ZSB, Kaimur 12 ZSB, Katihar 13 ZSB, Madhubani 14 ZSB, Munger 15 ZSB, Muzaffarpur 16 ZSB, Nalanda 17 ZSB, Patna 18 ZSB, Rohtas 19 ZSB, Saharsa 20 ZSB, Samastipur 21 ZSB, Saran 22 ZSB, Sitamarhi 23 ZSB, Siwan 24 ZSB, Vaishali 25 ZSB, West Champaran 1 ZSB, Raipur 2 ZSB, Bilaspur 3 ZSB, Durg 4 ZSB, Jashpur 5 ZSB, Rajnandgaon 6 ZSB, Jagdalpur 5 Chhattisgarh 10 7 ZSB, Ambikapur(Sarguja) 8 ZSB, Baikunthpur (Korea) 9 ZSB, Raigarh 10 ZSB, KankerNo ZSB 6 Delhi 0 0 No ZSB 7 Goa 0 0 1 ZSB, Ahmedabad 2 ZSB, Vadodara 3 ZSB, Surat 4 ZSB, Jamnagar 5 ZSB, Rajkot 6 ZSB, Himantnagar 8 Gujarat 11 (Sabarkantha) 7 ZSB, Kachchh-Bhuj 8 ZSB, Mahesana 9 ZSB, Panchmahal (Godhra) 10 ZSB, Porbandar 11 ZSB, Surendranagar 1 ZSB, Ambala 2 ZSB, Bhiwani 3 ZSB, Charkhi Dadri 4 ZSB, Faridabad 5 ZSB, Fatehabad 6 ZSB, Gurugram 7 ZSB, Hisar 8 ZSB, Jhajjar 9 ZSB, Jind 10 ZSB, Karnal 11 ZSB, Kaithal 9 Haryana 22 12 ZSB, Kurukshetra 13 ZSB, Narnaul 14 ZSB, Panipat 15 ZSB, Palwal 16 ZSB, Panchkula 17 ZSB, Rewari 18 ZSB, Rohtak 19 ZSB, Sonepat 20 ZSB, Sirsa 21 ZSB Yamuna Nagar 22 Nuh 1 ZSB, Bilaspur 2 ZSB, Chamba 10 Himachal Pradesh 10 3 ZSB, Hamirpur 4 ZSB, Kangra 5 ZSB, Kullu6 ZSB, Mandi 7 ZSB, Solan 8 ZSB, Sirmour 9 ZSB, Shimla and Kinnour 10 ZSB, Una 1 ZSB, Samba 2 ZSB, Kathua 3 ZSB, Udhampur 4 ZSB, Reasi 5 ZSB, Rajouri 6 ZSB, Poonch 11 J & K (UT) 13 7 ZSB, Kupwara 8 ZSB, Doda 9 ZSB, Baramulla 10 ZSB, Srinagar 11 ZSB, Jammu 12 ZSB, RS Pura 13 ZSB, Akhnoor 1 ZSB, Ranchi 2 ZSB, Dumka 3 ZSB, Chaibasa 12 Jharkhand 6 4 ZSB, Hazaribag 5 ZSB, Gumla 6 ZSB, Medininagar 1 ZSB, Bengaluru (Urban) 2 ZSB, Bengaluru (Rural) 3 ZSB, Belagavi 4 ZSB, Vijayapura 5 ZSB, Dharwad 6 ZSB, Kalaburagi 13 Karnataka 13 7 ZSB, Uttara Kannada 8 ZSB, Mangaluru 9 ZSB, Madikeri 10 ZSB, Mysuru 11 ZSB, Shivamogga 12 ZSB, Bagalkot 13 ZSB, Hassan 1 ZSB, Thiruvananthapuram 2 ZSB, Kollam 14 Kerala 14 3 ZSB, Pathanamthitta 4 ZSB, Alappuzha 5 ZSB, Kottayam 6 ZSB, Idukki7 ZSB, Ernakulam 8 ZSB, Thrissur 9 ZSB, Palakkad 10 ZSB, Malappuram 11 ZSB, Kozhikkode 12 ZSB, Wayanad 13 ZSB, Kannur 14 ZSB, Kasargode 1 ZSB, Betul 2 ZSB, Bhind 3 ZSB, Bhopal 4 ZSB, Chhatarpur 5 ZSB, Chhindwara 6 ZSB, Katni 7 ZSB, Khandwa 8 ZSB, Gwalior 9 ZSB, Guna 10 ZSB, Narmadapuram (Hoshangabad) 11 ZSB, Indore 15 Madhya Pradesh 24 12 ZSB, Jabalpur 13 ZSB, Mandsaur 14 ZSB, Morena 15 ZSB, Narsinghpur 16 ZSB, Ratlam 17 ZSB, Rewa 18 ZSB, Satna 19 ZSB, Sagar 20 ZSB, Seoni 21 ZSB, Shahdol 22 ZSB, Sidhi 23 ZSB, Tikamgarh 24 ZSB, Ujjain 1 ZSB, Mumbai City 2 ZSB, Mumbai Suburban 3 ZSB, Thane 4 ZSB, Sindhudurg 5 ZSB, Raigad –Alibag 6 ZSB, Ratnagiri 16 Maharashtra 33 7 ZSB, Pune 8 ZSB, Satara 9 ZSB, Sangli 10 ZSB, Kolhapur 11 ZSB, Solapur 12 ZSB, Nashik13 ZSB, Ahmednagar 14 ZSB, Dhule 15 ZSB, Nandurbar 16 ZSB, Jalgaon 17 ZSB, Nagpur 18 ZSB, Bhandara Gondia 19 ZSB, Chandrapur 20 ZSB, Gadchiroli 21 ZSB, Aurangabad 22 ZSB, Jalna 23 ZSB, Latur 24 ZSB, Beed 25 ZSB, Osmanabad 26 ZSB, Parbhani Nanded 27 ZSB, Amravati 28 ZSB, Akola 29 ZSB, Buldana 30 ZSB, Yavatmal 31 ZSB, Wardha 32 ZSB, Washim 33 ZSB, Hingoli 1 ZSB, Churachandpur 17 Manipur 2 2 ZSB Imphal 1 ZSB, Shillong 18 Meghalaya 2 2 ZSB, Tura 1 ZSB, Aizawl 2 ZSB, Lunglei 19 Mizoram 4 3 ZSB, Champhai 4 ZSB, Kolasib 1 ZSB, Mokokchung 2 ZSB, Dimapur 20 Nagaland 5 3 ZSB, Kohima 4 ZSB, Wokha 5 ZSB, Zunheboto 1 ZSB, Cuttack 2 ZSB, Ganjam 3 ZSB, Balasore 21 Odisha 8 4 ZSB, Dhenkanal 5 ZSB, Keonjhar 6 ZSB, Sambalpur 7 ZSB, Kalahandi 8 ZSB, Koraput1 ZSB, Amritsar 2 ZSB, Bathinda 3 ZSB, Faridkot 4 ZSB, Ferozpur 5 ZSB, Gurdaspur 6 ZSB, Hoshiarpur 7 ZSB, Jalandhar 8 ZSB, Kapurthala 9 ZSB, Ludhiana 10 ZSB, Patiala 11 ZSB, Rupnagar 22 Punjab 22 12 ZSB, Sangrur 13 ZSB, Shri Muktsar Sahib 14 ZSB, SBS Nagar 15 ZSB, Mansa 16 ZSB, Moga 17 ZSB, Fatehgarh Sahib 18 ZSB, Mohali 19 ZSB, Barnala 20 ZSB, Tarn Taran 21 ZSB, Pathankot 22 ZSB, Fazilka 1 ZSB, Ajmer 2 ZSB, Alwar 3 ZSB, Behror 4 ZSB, Bhilwada 5 ZSB, Barmer 6 ZSB, Bharatpur 7 ZSB, Bikaner 8 ZSB, Bhim 9 ZSB, Churu 10 ZSB, Jaipur 11 ZSB, Jaisalmer 23 Rajasthan 25 12 ZSB, Jhunjhunu 13 ZSB, Chirawa 14 ZSB, Jodhpur 15 ZSB, Shergarh 16 ZSB, Kota 17 ZSB, Nagaur 18 ZSB, Didwana 19 ZSB, Pali 20 ZSB, Karuli 21 ZSB, Sikar 22 ZSB, Neemkathana23 ZSB, Tonk 24 ZSB, Sri Ganganagar 25 ZSB, Udaipur 1 ZSB, Gangtok East/North Sikkim 24 Sikkim 3 2 ZSB, South Sikkim 3 ZSB, West Sikkim 1 Ariyalur 2 Chennai 3 Coimbatore 4 Cuddalore 5 Dharmapuri 6 Dindigul 7 Erode 8 Kancheepuram 9 Kanniyakumari 10 Krishnagiri 11 Madurai 12 Nagapattinam 13 Namakkal 14 Pudukottai 15 Ramanathapuram 25 Tamil Nadu 30 16 Salem 17 Sivagangai 18 Thanjavur 19 The Nilgiris 20 Theni 21 Thoothukudi 22 Tiruchirapalli 23 Tirunelveli 24 Tiruppur 25 Tiruvallur 26 Tiruvarur 27 Tiruvannamalai 28 Vellore 29 Villupuram 30 Virudhunagar 26 Tripura 0 0 No ZSB 1 ZSB, Adilabad 2 ZSB, Hyderabad 3 ZSB, Karimnagar 27 Telangana 10 4 ZSB, Khammam 5 ZSB, Mahabubnagar 6 ZSB, Sangareddy7 ZSB, Nalgonda 8 ZSB, Nizamabad 9 ZSB, Ranga Reddy 10 ZSB, Warangal 1 ZSB, Almora 2 ZSB, Bageshwar 3 ZSB, Chamoli 4 ZSB, Champawat 5 ZSB, Dehradun 6 ZSB, Herbertpur 7 ZSB, Haridwar 8 ZSB, Haldwani (Nanital) 9 ZSB, Pauri 28 Uttarakhand 16 10 ZSB, Lansdowne (Pauri Garhwal) 11 ZSB, Pithoragarh 12 ZSB, Didihat 13 ZSB, Rudraprayag 14 ZSB, New Tehri 15 ZSB, Rudrapur (US Nagar) 16 ZSB, Uttarkashi 1 ZSB, Agra 2 ZSB, Aligarh 3 ZSB, Prayagraj 4 ZSB, Ambedkar Nagar 5 ZSB, Amethi 6 ZSB, Amroha 7 ZSB, Auraiya 8 ZSB, Azamgarh 9 ZSB, Badaun 10 ZSB, Badohi 11 ZSB, Bagpat 29 Uttar Pradesh 75 12 ZSB, Bahraich 13 ZSB, Bijnore 14 ZSB, Balia 15 ZSB, Balrampur 16 ZSB, Banda 17 ZSB, Barabanki 18 ZSB, Bareilly 19 ZSB, Basti 20 ZSB, Bulandshahar 21 ZSB, Chandauli 22 ZSB, Chitrakoot 23 ZSB, Deoria24 ZSB, Etah 25 ZSB, Etawah 26 ZSB, Ayodhya 27 ZSB, Farrukhabad 28 ZSB, Fatehpur 29 ZSB, Firozabad 30 ZSB, Gautambudh Nagar 31 ZSB, Ghaziabad 32 ZSB, Ghazipur 33 ZSB, Gonda 34 ZSB, Gorakhpur 35 ZSB, Hamirpur 36 ZSB, Hapur 37 ZSB, Hardoi 38 ZSB, Hathras 39 ZSB, Jalaun 40 ZSB, Jaunpur 41 ZSB, Jhansi 42 ZSB, Kannauj 43 ZSB, Kanpur Nagar 44 ZSB, Kanpur Dehat 45 ZSB, Kasganj 46 ZSB, Kaushambi 47 ZSB, Kheri 48 ZSB, Kushinagar 49 ZSB, Lalitpur 50 ZSB, Lucknow 51 ZSB, Maharajganj 52 ZSB, Mahoba 53 ZSB, Mainpuri 54 ZSB, Mathura 55 ZSB, Mau 56 ZSB, Meerut 57 ZSB, Mirzapur 58 ZSB, Moradabad 29 59 ZSB, Muzaffarnagar 60 ZSB, Pilibhit 61 ZSB, Pratapgarh 62 ZSB, Rampur 63 ZSB, Raibareilly 64 ZSB, Sant Kabir Nagar 65 ZSB, Saharanpur 66 ZSB, Shamli 67 ZSB, Shahjahanpur68 ZSB, Siddharth Nagar 69 ZSB, Sitapur 70 ZSB, Sonbhadra 71 ZSB, Shravasti 72 ZSB, Sultanpur 73 ZSB, Unnao 74 ZSB, Varanasi 75 ZSB, Sambhal 1 ZSB, Kolkata 2 ZSB, Howrah 3 ZSB, 24 Pgs (N) 4 ZSB, 24 Pgs (S) 5 ZSB, Midnapur 6 ZSB, Burdwan 7 ZSB, Murshidabad 30 West Bengal 14 8 ZSB, Malda 9 ZSB, D/Dinajpur 10 ZSB, Jalpaiguri 11 ZSB, Coochbehar 12 ZSB, Darjeeling 13 ZSB, Nadia 14 ZSB, Kalimpong No ZSB 31 A & N (UT) 0 0 Chandigarh (UT) No ZSB 32 0 0 Puducherry (UT) No ZSB 33 0 0 1 ZSB, Leh 34 Ladakh (UT) 2 2 ZSB, Kargil