Providing of Free Stationery and Free School Bag to all Non-SC Students studying in Classes 1 to 8

What is the Free Stationery and School Bag scheme for non-SC students?

Providing of Free Stationery and Free School Bag to all Non-SC Students studying in classes 1 to 8 is a Haryana state scheme run by the Directorate of Elementary Education under the School Education Department. It appears under that exact name on the Haryana State DBT Portal, dbtharyana.gov.in, in the block of ten schemes listed against the Department of Elementary Education.

The scheme gives students in the elementary classes of Haryana government schools a school bag and a stationery allowance for the academic year. Unlike an in-kind distribution at the school gate, the benefit is delivered as money: the Directorate of Elementary Education's letter memo No. 03/08-2023 Chhatravriti (1) dated 15 May 2025 records that for classes 1 to 8 in financial year 2025-26, scholarship, uniform, school bag and stationery allowance amounts are all to be credited directly into students' bank accounts through DBT and PFMS.

The defining feature of this scheme is in its name. It is for non-SC students. Haryana already ran a set of elementary schemes aimed at Scheduled Caste, BC-A and Below Poverty Line students. The Directorate's Section 7 Aadhaar notification of 15 June 2021 lists the seven state schemes then operating for classes 1 to 8, and they were the one-time Cash Award Scheme for Scheduled Caste students, monthly stipend for all Scheduled Caste students, monthly stipend for BC-A students, monthly stipend for BPL students, the Rajiv Gandhi EEE scholarship, free bicycles for Scheduled Caste students in class 6, and Mukhyamantri Saksham. The free stationery and school bag scheme for non-SC students is not in that 2021 list, which places it as a later addition that closes the gap for the students the earlier schemes did not reach.

Who is eligible for the free stationery and school bag?

A student qualifies if:

• The student is enrolled in a Haryana government school.
• The student is in any class from 1 to 8, the elementary range.
• The student belongs to a category other than Scheduled Caste.
• The student's record on the One School App Portal carries a Parivar Pehchan Patra ID, a bank account number, an IFSC code and the bank name.

A student is not eligible if:

• The student belongs to the Scheduled Caste category. SC students cannot apply under this scheme; the state provides for them through the separate one time Cash Award Scheme and the monthly stipend for Scheduled Caste students in classes 1 to 8.
• The student studies in a private school. The Elementary Education Department's incentive schemes are framed for government school students.
• The student is outside the class 1 to 8 range.

There is no separate application by the family and no competitive selection. The entitlement follows enrolment, so the only real gate is whether the school's record for that child is complete.

What documents are required?

Parents are not asked to submit these to a counter. They are collected by the school at admission and entered against the child on the departmental portal.

How to apply for the free stationery and school bag

There is no citizen-facing form for this scheme. The steps below are the real route by which a child's entitlement is created and paid.

1. Enrol the child in a Haryana government school in any class from 1 to 8. Enrolment is what creates the entitlement; nothing further is applied for.
2. Give the school the family's Parivar Pehchan Patra ID at admission, along with the child's Aadhaar number.
3. Open a bank account in the child's own name and hand the school the account number, the bank name and the IFSC code. The Directorate specifically instructed schools in May 2025 to complete account opening for children taking admission in class 1, so a young child having no account is not a reason to skip this step.
4. Ask the class in-charge to confirm the entry on the One School App Portal. The head of the school is responsible for filling the complete data; PPP ID number, bank account number, bank IFSC code and bank name — scheme by scheme.
5. Follow up with the Block Education Officer if the allowance does not arrive after the school says the record is complete.

For 2025-26 the Directorate set a hard internal deadline of 20 May 2025 for schools to finish this data work, following earlier letters dated 18 April 2025 and 8 May 2025 on the same subject. That gives a sense of the annual rhythm: the data has to be right early in the session for the money to move.

How much is the benefit?

The Elementary Education circulars reviewed for this guide name the benefit, a free school bag and a stationery allowance, and confirm the payment channel, but they do not publish a per-student rupee rate. Rates for this class of elementary incentive are set through departmental budget instructions rather than a public notification, and no verified figure is stated here for that reason. Parents should ask the head of the school for the current year's rate, since the school is the office that files the claim.

What is confirmed is the form of the benefit. It is a cash allowance paid by DBT into the student's bank account, grouped by the Directorate with the uniform allowance and the scholarship amounts for classes 1 to 8, and not a voucher or a bag handed out at the school.

Why the allowance does not arrive, and how to fix it

The Directorate of Elementary Education was blunt about this in its 15 May 2025 letter. Where a student's data on the One School App Portal is incomplete, that student is simply left out of the payment run. The specific failures it named were a missing Parivar Pehchan Patra ID number, a missing or wrong bank account number, a missing IFSC code and a missing bank name.

The letter placed responsibility on the district office, the Block Education Officer, the head of the school and the class in-charge, and warned them about duplication and financial irregularity in the amounts paid out. In practice this means a parent whose child has not received the allowance should:

• Ask the class in-charge to open the child's One School App Portal record and read back the four payment fields.
• Correct any mismatch between the name on the bank account and the school record, since a name mismatch stops a PFMS credit even when the account number is right.
• Confirm the PPP ID on the record is the family's current one, particularly if the family ID was updated or the family moved district.
• Escalate to the Block Education Officer and then the District Elementary Education Officer if the school record is correct but no credit has come.

Where to raise a complaint

• Head of the school, then the Block Education Officer for the block.
• District Elementary Education Officer for the district.
• Directorate of Elementary Education, Haryana, Panchkula, contactable through the Directorate of School Education at Shiksha Sadan, Sector 5, Panchkula, telephone 0172-2560246.
• CM Window at cmharyanacell.nic.in for a written state-level grievance.

No fee is payable at any point. A school bag and stationery allowance under this scheme is an entitlement attached to enrolment, and no one may charge a family to have a child's name included.

How to check your application status

There is no citizen login where a parent can track a case number for this scheme, because there is no citizen-filed application to begin with. The entitlement runs entirely off the school's own record on the One School App Portal, so checking status means checking whether the money has actually landed, not tracking a form through a queue. A parent can do this in a few concrete ways.

• Check the child's own bank passbook or account statement. Since the school bag and stationery allowance is paid by DBT through PFMS directly into the student's account, a credit entry there is the only real confirmation that the payment has gone through for that academic year.
• Watch for a bank SMS alert on the mobile number linked to the child's account, if one is registered. Many nationalised and cooperative bank branches send a transaction alert the same day PFMS credits the account.
• Ask the class in-charge or the head of the school to open the child's entry on the One School App Portal and read out whether the payment status against the stationery and school bag head shows as processed or still pending for the current academic year. Since the school is the office that files the claim, this record is the authoritative one, ahead of anything a parent can see independently.
• Time the check against the annual data cycle. For 2025-26 the Directorate fixed 20 May 2025 as the internal deadline for schools to complete student records feeding this payment. Checking before that kind of internal cutoff has passed for the year is unlikely to show anything, since the payment run for the whole block of ten Elementary Education schemes typically follows the data-completion deadline rather than preceding it.
• Escalate to the Block Education Officer if the school confirms the record is complete and marked paid, but no credit has reached the account. This is the same office to approach for a payment that never arrives after the data is in order.

There is no SMS shortcode, toll-free IVR, or PFMS public tracking page specific to this scheme that a parent can query independently. The school record and the bank account are the only two places the status genuinely lives.