Mukhyamantri Balika Protsahan Yojana (Intermediate)

What is Mukhyamantri Balika Protsahan Yojana (Intermediate)?

Mukhyamantri Balika Protsahan Yojana (Intermediate) is Bihar's cash incentive for an unmarried girl who clears the Bihar School Examination Board Class 12 (Intermediate) examination. The Education Department pays Rs 25,000 once, straight into the girl's own bank account, through the Medhasoft platform at medhasoft.bihar.gov.in.

The naming needs a word of explanation, because it confuses thousands of applicants every year. Bihar originally ran a girls-only Balika Protsahan Yojana with separate Matric and Intermediate stages. The Intermediate stage was later folded into and enlarged under Mukhyamantri Kanya Utthan Yojana, which is the link now shown on Medhasoft as Mukhyamantri Kanya Utthan Yojana (+2). The transliterated older name stayed in public circulation, so a girl searching for "Balika Protsahan Yojana Intermediate" and a girl searching for "Kanya Utthan Yojana 12th pass" are looking for the same Rs 25,000 payment.

Key features

• One-time incentive of Rs 25,000, a grant with nothing to repay.
• Restricted to unmarried girls, declared in the form itself.
• Paid by Direct Benefit Transfer to the girl's own Aadhaar-seeded account.
• Tied to a single Intermediate result year, with a fresh registration link each year.
• Free and fully online; no printed form, no fee, no agent.
• Verified in two layers: by the school or college where you sat the exam, then by the district education administration.

The policy logic is narrow and deliberate. Bihar's female dropout curve spikes between Class 12 and college admission, and a Rs 25,000 lump sum arriving at exactly that moment is meant to cover the cost of a first year of undergraduate study, admission fee, books, transport or hostel; at the point where families otherwise decide to stop paying.

Who is eligible for the Rs 25,000 Intermediate incentive?

You can claim it if:

• You are a girl who has passed the BSEB Class 12 (Intermediate) examination in a result year for which registration is open.
• You are unmarried on the date of application.
• You appeared from a school or college affiliated to the Bihar School Examination Board.
• You hold an Aadhaar number and a bank account in your own name, seeded with that Aadhaar.
• Your name, father's name and date of birth match across the marksheet, Aadhaar and bank record.
• You register inside the window notified for your result year.

You cannot apply, or will not be paid, if:

• You are married. The unmarried condition is the defining eligibility bar of this scheme and is not waived.
• You are a boy. The Intermediate-stage incentive is girls-only, unlike the Matric-stage incentive, which Bihar now pays to first-division boys and girls alike.
• You passed from a board other than BSEB, for example CBSE or ICSE, because the portal validates against board result data.
• You submit an account that is not in your own name, or that is not Aadhaar-seeded.
• You have already been paid for the same Intermediate result.
• You register after the closing date for your batch.

No income ceiling and no caste condition apply. A poor family and a comfortable one are treated the same here. The qualifying facts are the BSEB result, the girl's unmarried status and a working own-name bank account.

What documents are required?

Upload clear, upright scans within the size limit the portal displays. A blurred passbook page is a frequent reason a case is pushed back at verification.

How to apply for the Bihar Intermediate girls' incentive

1. Open medhasoft.bihar.gov.in and find the Mukhyamantri Kanya Utthan Yojana (+2) block for your Intermediate result year, this is the link that pays the incentive people call Balika Protsahan Yojana (Intermediate). Three mirror links are offered; any one works.
2. Read the instruction sheet posted alongside the link. It states the exact qualifying condition and closing date notified for your batch, and it is the only source you should trust on those two points.
3. Select Student Registration and enter your roll code, roll number, registration number and passing year from the Class 12 marksheet. The portal fetches your name, father's name and result from BSEB records.
4. Enter your Aadhaar number, mobile number and full bank details; account number typed twice, IFSC, bank and branch name — and complete the unmarried status declaration.
5. Upload the marksheet, Aadhaar and bank passbook scans.
6. Submit the form and print the acknowledgement showing your application number. Every later status check and grievance needs it.
7. Ask your school or college to verify your entry on their institutional login, then track the case on the Medhasoft status link until it shows district approval and payment.

There is no offline route. If you apply from a cyber cafe, watch the bank account number being typed, and never share the OTP with the operator after the form is submitted.

How and when is the Rs 25,000 paid?

Bihar releases the incentive as a single DBT credit of Rs 25,000 to the girl's own account. Payment follows a batch cycle: the institution verifies, the district approves a consolidated list, and the department releases funds against that list. Girls from one college are therefore usually paid together. If a classmate has been paid and you have not, the problem is almost always your own verification stage or your bank details, not the scheme.

No part of the money is paid in cash at the college, and no official is authorised to take a share of it.

How to check your application and payment status

1. Open medhasoft.bihar.gov.in and choose the status or payment-status link for the scheme and year you registered under.
2. Enter your application number, or your roll code and roll number.
3. Read which of the three stages is pending, institutional verification, district approval, or payment release.
4. If a bank rejection is shown, get your account details corrected through the college's institutional login. Applicants cannot edit bank details themselves after submission.

Why claims get rejected, and how to fix them

• Account not in the girl's own name, the single largest cause. Open an account in her name and have the record corrected through the college login.
• Account not Aadhaar-seeded for DBT, ask the branch specifically for Aadhaar seeding; handing over an Aadhaar photocopy is not the same thing.
• Name mismatch between marksheet, Aadhaar and bank record. Correcting Aadhaar or the bank record is far faster than correcting a board record.
• Wrong IFSC, closed or dormant account, a dormant account will bounce the credit even if every other field is right.
• Duplicate registrations filed in panic, which flag the case instead of speeding it up.
• College verification never completed, if your status has not moved in weeks, go to the college office before going anywhere else.

What if the registration window has closed?

Each Intermediate result year has its own link and closing date. If your year's link is shut, check the mirror links on the Medhasoft home page first, then approach your college principal with your marksheet and acknowledgement. Left-out cases are handled at district level by the District Education Officer, who holds the district beneficiary list. Any extension is published on Medhasoft itself, so verify there rather than acting on a forwarded message.

Where to raise a grievance

• College or school principal, for verification and for post-submission corrections to bank details.
• District Education Officer (DEO) of your district, for approval delays, batch release and left-out cases.
• Education Department, Government of Bihar, via state.bihar.gov.in/educationbihar, for unresolved or policy-level questions.

Registration is free. No agent can charge a commission on the Rs 25,000, and no genuine official will ask you for your OTP.