789 Special Component for SC-Plan (Sports and Youth Affairs)

What is the 789 Special Component for SC-Plan?

789 Special Component for SC-Plan is a Scheduled Caste earmark within the budget of the Department of Sports and Youth Affairs, Government of Haryana. The Haryana State DBT portal lists it as one of only two schemes recorded for that department, the other being the 52 Sports Awards and Incentive Scheme. The number 789 is the state budget scheme code, not an amount or a year.

Special Component Plan: now more commonly called the Scheduled Caste Sub Plan, is a public finance instrument, not a benefit with its own application form. Under it, a department must set aside a defined share of its plan budget for Scheduled Caste beneficiaries and account for the spending separately. In the Sports Department's case, that means the Scheduled Caste share of scholarships, awards, coaching, kit and academy support is booked to this head.

Readers should understand this clearly, because it is the single point most often misread: there is no separate "789" cheque. A Scheduled Caste sportsperson does not apply "for the 789 scheme". They apply for a nursery seat, an academy place, a scholarship or an award through the district sports office, and if they qualify, the expenditure is charged to this component.

Who is eligible under the Special Component Plan?

You can be covered if:

• You hold a valid Scheduled Caste certificate issued in Haryana, in your own name.
• You are a resident of Haryana with a verified Parivar Pehchan Patra (Family ID).
• You qualify for the underlying departmental activity, for example, you clear selection for a sports nursery, are admitted to a residential sports academy, or win a medal that attracts an award under the department's awards and incentive scheme.

You are not eligible if:

• You do not belong to a Scheduled Caste. Special Component Plan funds cannot lawfully be spent on other categories. General, Backward Class and other applicants use the department's ordinary budget heads for the same activities and should not apply here.
• You are not a Haryana resident.
• You do not meet the age, performance or selection standard of the specific activity you are applying for. Belonging to a Scheduled Caste establishes which budget head pays; it does not by itself create an entitlement.

What departmental support does a Scheduled Caste sportsperson access?

The following are the department's own published activities, verified from haryanasports.gov.in and the Economic Survey of Haryana 2025-26. Scheduled Caste sportspersons access them on the same terms as everyone else, with the Scheduled Caste share of the cost booked to the Special Component head.

• Sports nurseries. The department started 1,500 sports nurseries and the government has increased the number to 2,000. Each sportsperson aged 8 to 14 receives a monthly scholarship of Rs 1,500, and each aged 15 to 19 receives Rs 2,000 a month. A private nursery coach is paid a monthly honorarium of Rs 20,000 or Rs 25,000 depending on qualification.
• Residential sports academies. The department runs 20 residential sports academies against a sanctioned 25. Trainees receive diet money of Rs 500 per day per player, raised from Rs 400.
• Sports Awards and Incentive Scheme, listed on the state DBT portal as the department's other scheme, which pays cash awards to medal winners.
• Sports gradation certificates, which underpin reserved sports quota employment in Haryana. The department publishes gradation certificate lists on its website and runs a separate "Jobs to Sportsperson" route.
• Haryana Provision of Sports Equipment Scheme, under which Gram Panchayats and Municipal Bodies, not individuals — receive equipment for up to two sports.

How to apply through the Special Component route

1. Obtain a valid Scheduled Caste certificate issued in Haryana. Apply through the Antyodaya SARAL portal at saralharyana.gov.in or a SARAL Kendra if you do not hold one.
2. Verify your Parivar Pehchan Patra at meraparivar.haryana.gov.in so that your caste, residence and family details are correct. A mismatch here stops most Haryana state benefit claims.
3. Identify the actual benefit you want, a sports nursery seat, an academy selection, a scholarship, a gradation certificate or an award claim. Each has its own eligibility standard and its own form.
4. Apply at the office of the District Sports Officer of your district with the certificate, Family ID, Aadhaar, bank passbook and your competition record, and collect a dated receipt with a diary number.
5. Watch the department's website at haryanasports.gov.in for trials, registration windows and selection notices, for example the annual Khelo India State Centre of Excellence athlete selection registration.
6. Track the payment in your bank passbook. Sports Department payments are made by Direct Benefit Transfer into an Aadhaar-seeded account.

Where to get help

• District Sports Officer, your district, the operating authority for every Sports Department scheme at district level.
• Directorate of Sports, Haryana, haryanasports.gov.in, which publishes scheme notifications, the departmental directory and help pages.
• SARAL Kendra helpline: 1800-2000-023, 7 am to 9 pm, Monday to Saturday, as listed on the Sports Department website.
• Antyodaya SARAL helpline: 0172-3968400, email saral.haryana@gov.in.

An honest note on what is published

This page deliberately stops short of quoting a benefit amount, an eligibility slab or an annual target for the 789 head itself, because Haryana has not published one. What is verifiable is the head's existence, its department, its restriction to Scheduled Caste beneficiaries, and the departmental activities through which it is spent. Any figure presented elsewhere as "the 789 scheme benefit" should be checked against the District Sports Officer before you rely on it.

If you are a Scheduled Caste sportsperson in Haryana, the practical advice is simple: go to the District Sports Officer, ask which schemes have a Scheduled Caste reservation or component this year, and apply to those on their own forms.

How to check your application status

There is no separate portal, login or reference number for the "789" head itself, because it is a budget component and not a standalone citizen scheme with its own workflow. What can be tracked is the underlying activity the Scheduled Caste share is funding, so status checking depends on which benefit you actually applied for.

• Sports nursery admission or scholarship. Contact the District Sports Officer of the district where you registered. Nursery selection lists and monthly scholarship disbursal are managed at district level, not through a state-wide online tracker. Quote the diary number or receipt date you were given at the time of application.
• Residential sports academy selection. Academy trial results and admission lists are published by the individual academy and by the Directorate of Sports on haryanasports.gov.in. Check the notices section of the website for your academy's name, or call the academy office directly.
• Sports Awards and Incentive Scheme cash award. Award processing is handled by the Directorate of Sports after a medal or achievement is verified. Follow up with the District Sports Officer, who forwards claims to the directorate, rather than expecting an SMS or portal update.
• Scheduled Caste certificate, if that is the pending step. A certificate applied for through Antyodaya SARAL (saralharyana.gov.in) or a SARAL Kendra can be tracked on that portal using the application ID issued at submission, or by calling the SARAL helpline.
• Direct Benefit Transfer payment. Once an activity is approved, payment moves through DBT into an Aadhaar-seeded bank account. If a scholarship, diet money or award has been sanctioned but not credited, the fastest check is your bank passbook or mini-statement rather than any scheme website, since Haryana's Sports Department does not run a public payment-status lookup for these transfers.

If you are unsure which office holds your file, start with the District Sports Officer of your district. That office is the single point of contact for nurseries, academies, gradation certificates and award claims, and can tell you which stage your specific application has reached even though the "789" budget head itself has no status page of its own.

Common reasons for rejection

Because the Special Component head funds ordinary departmental activities rather than a separate application, rejections at this level are almost always rejections of the underlying nursery, academy, scholarship or award claim, not of a "789 scheme" application. The common causes are:

• No Scheduled Caste certificate, or a certificate issued outside Haryana. The Special Component fund can only be spent on Haryana-issued Scheduled Caste certificates in the applicant's own name. A certificate from another state, or one still pending at the SARAL Kendra, gets the claim set aside until a valid Haryana certificate is produced.
• Parivar Pehchan Patra mismatch. If the caste category, date of birth, address or family details on your Family ID do not match your Scheduled Caste certificate or Aadhaar, the claim is held back for correction rather than approved on mismatched records. Fixing the PPP entry at meraparivar.haryana.gov.in before applying avoids this delay.
• Not meeting the activity's own selection standard. Belonging to a Scheduled Caste decides which budget head pays for the benefit; it does not waive the nursery age band, academy trial performance, or the medal standard required for an award. Applicants sometimes assume caste eligibility alone secures a seat or award and are rejected for missing the sporting criterion itself.
• Incomplete or missing supporting documents at the District Sports Officer's counter. Applications submitted without a bank passbook copy, Aadhaar, or competition record are commonly returned incomplete rather than formally rejected, and have to be resubmitted with the missing document.
• Applying to the wrong scheme head. General category, Backward Class or other non-Scheduled Caste applicants sometimes apply expecting Special Component benefits; these are declined because the fund is legally restricted to Scheduled Caste beneficiaries, and non-SC applicants must use the department's ordinary budget line for the same activity.
• Bank account not Aadhaar-seeded. Even after an activity is approved, Direct Benefit Transfer fails or is delayed if the beneficiary's bank account is not linked and seeded with Aadhaar, which shows up as a sanctioned but uncredited payment rather than an outright rejection.

The practical fix in every case is the same: resolve the certificate and Family ID paperwork first, confirm you meet the specific activity's own eligibility standard, and bring complete documents to the District Sports Officer, since that office is where both the approval and any rejection is actually decided.