Scholarship for Children of Deceased or Disabled Government Employees

What is the scholarship for children of deceased or disabled government employees?

Scholarship for Children of Deceased or Disabled Government Employees is a school-stage scholarship of the Madhya Pradesh School Education Department, administered by the Directorate of Public Instruction and delivered through the MP Shiksha Portal. The scheme supports the schooling of children whose parent was a government servant who has died in service, become disabled, or retired.

Madhya Pradesh's consolidated scholarship listing for school students, the "Samekit Chhatravritti Vivarnika" that underpins the Shiksha Portal, records the scheme under the School Education Department with three flat annual rates:

The rates are computed on a 10-month academic year and paid once a year by Direct Benefit Transfer. The listing records two conditions against the head: the student must have passed the previous year's class, and the student must not be drawing another scholarship at the same time.

Two things about this scheme should be said plainly rather than dressed up. First, the amounts are very small and have not been revised for many years; Rs 250 a year does not meet the cost of a set of Class 10 notebooks. Second, the scheme is not the state's real answer for a family that has lost a government servant. That answer is compassionate appointment (anukampa niyukti) for one dependent and family pension, both pursued through the late employee's own department under the General Administration Department's rules. This scholarship is a small add-on inside the school system, useful because it is automatic once the school enters it, and not worth the family's main effort.

Who is eligible for the scholarship?

A student can claim it if:

• The student's parent was a government servant of the Government of Madhya Pradesh, and that parent has died, become disabled, or retired.
• The student is enrolled as a regular student in a recognised school in Madhya Pradesh and is mapped to that school on the Shiksha Portal for the session.
• The student is in Classes 1 to 12, which is the range the rates cover.
• The student passed the previous year's class.
• The student's Samagra e-KYC is complete and a bank account is available and Aadhaar-seeded.

Who cannot apply or is not eligible:

• Children of parents who were not government servants. Employment with a private firm, a contractor or an unregistered establishment does not qualify, and this is the boundary that most rejected claims fall outside.
• Students who failed the previous class, since the listing makes passing the previous year a condition.
• Students already drawing another scholarship for the same academic year. The scheme's own condition bars simultaneous benefit, so a Scheduled Caste or Scheduled Tribe student who is already sanctioned under a caste-based head cannot also draw this one.
• Students not enrolled on the Shiksha Portal, or enrolled as private candidates rather than regular students.
• Students outside the Class 1 to 12 range. College students should look at the higher education scholarship heads on hescholarship.mp.gov.in instead.

Where a district office or school asks for an income certificate, ask which circular requires it. The consolidated listing does not record an income ceiling against this head, and the qualifying fact is the parent's government service and the death, disability or retirement, not the family's income.

What documents are required?

How to apply for the scholarship

1. Collect the parent's service proof. Get a service certificate, appointment order, pension payment order or an employer's letter from the department where the parent worked, plus the death certificate, the disability certificate from the competent medical board, or the retirement order.
2. Check the Samagra record. Confirm the child has a 9-digit Samagra member ID and that name, date of birth and gender match Aadhaar and the school register. Correct Samagra first, because the Shiksha Portal reads from it.
3. Complete Samagra e-KYC using the Aadhaar-linked mobile number, or at a Common Service Centre or MP Online kiosk if the mobile is not linked.
4. Make sure a bank account is Aadhaar-seeded, the student's own account, or a minor's account operated with a parent or guardian. Ask the branch to seed Aadhaar, which is a different request from submitting a photocopy.
5. Hand the document set to the school's scholarship in-charge and ask for the claim to be filed on shikshaportal.mp.gov.in under this head for the current session.
6. Note the reference number the portal generates and check the status yourself a few weeks later, rather than assuming the entry was completed.

How much is paid and when?

The scholarship is a single annual payment: Rs 50, Rs 120 or Rs 250 depending on the class — credited by Direct Benefit Transfer after the school's entry is verified and the department sanctions the session's list. There are no instalments. Because sanction runs on the annual scholarship cycle rather than on a fixed date, the credit typically arrives well into the academic session rather than at admission.

The scholarship must be claimed again in each academic year. It does not renew automatically, and a year in which the school does not enter the child is a year in which nothing is paid.

How to check the application and payment status

1. Open shikshaportal.mp.gov.in and go to the student services or scholarship section for the current academic session.
2. Enter the student's Samagra member ID.
3. Read the stage shown, entry pending at school, verified, sanctioned, or paid.
4. If it shows sanctioned but not credited, confirm the account number and IFSC in the record and ask the bank branch whether the account is active and Aadhaar-seeded.

Why claims fail, and how to fix them

• Samagra e-KYC incomplete, which is the commonest silent failure across all Madhya Pradesh school scholarships.
• No usable proof of the parent's government service. A verbal claim is not enough; get a written certificate from the parent's department.
• The student failed the previous class, which the scheme's own condition excludes.
• The student is already sanctioned under another scholarship head for the same year, so the second claim is rejected as a double benefit.
• Name or date-of-birth mismatch across Samagra, Aadhaar and the school register. Correct the Samagra record first.
• Account not Aadhaar-seeded, so the DBT bounces back.
• School never filed the claim. Because the whole process happens at the school, a parent who never checks the portal will not know.

Key dates, related entitlements and grievance route

No fixed statewide last date is published for students. Schools enter and verify scholarship claims through the academic session, so the practical advice is to give the school the documents at the start of the year, in June or July, and to check the portal status once before the session ends.

Families of a deceased or disabled government servant should, in parallel, pursue the two substantial entitlements: compassionate appointment for one eligible dependent, and family pension, both applied for through the late or disabled employee's own department under the state's service rules. Children may also be eligible for caste-based scholarship heads, free textbooks and free uniforms, but not simultaneously with this scholarship.

• School scholarship in-charge: first stop, and the fastest fix for portal errors.
• District Education Officer: the office above the school for scholarship disputes.
• Samagra portal: samagra.gov.in for e-KYC and record corrections.
• Madhya Pradesh CM Helpline: 181, for complaints the school and district office have not settled.

No fee is payable to any agent for having a name entered on the Shiksha Portal. Kiosks may charge only the government-notified service charge for assisted e-KYC.