Swami Vivekananda Post-Matric Scholarship Scheme (Class 11-12)

What is the Swami Vivekananda Post-Matric Scholarship Scheme?

Swami Vivekananda Post-Matric Merit Scholarship Scheme, listed in Hindi as Swami Vivekanand Post Metric Pravinya Chhatravritti Yojana, is a merit scholarship of the School Education Department, Government of Madhya Pradesh for students of Classes 11 and 12 in government schools. According to the Madhya Pradesh CM Helpline entitlement record, the scheme has been operating since the 2008-09 academic year.

The scheme sits at a specific gap in Madhya Pradesh's scholarship architecture. Post-matric scholarships for Classes 11 and 12 already exist, generously funded, for Scheduled Caste, Scheduled Tribe, Other Backward Class and minority students. Swami Vivekananda Post-Matric Scholarship covers the general-category student from a poor family who does not qualify under any of those schemes but who has performed well, and it makes performance the condition. A student must have passed the previous class in first division: Class 10 in first division to draw the scholarship in Class 11, and Class 11 in first division to draw it in Class 12.

The CM Helpline entitlement record lists the benefit as Rs 500 for boys and Rs 550 for girls, paid directly into the student's own bank account. Published summaries of the scheme differ on whether that figure is a monthly rate paid over the academic year or an annual amount, and the Shiksha Portal was not reachable at the time of this check, so treat the rate as the figure on the entitlement record and confirm the current-year rate with your school before making plans around it. The higher rate for girls follows the pattern used across Madhya Pradesh school scholarships.

Key features

• Runs since 2008-09 under the School Education Department.
• Covers Class 11 and Class 12 in government schools only.
• Requires a first-division pass in the previous class.
• Parental annual income ceiling of Rs 1,00,000.
• Rate listed as Rs 550 for girls, Rs 500 for boys.
• Paid by Direct Benefit Transfer, claim filed by the school on shikshaportal.mp.gov.in.

Who is eligible for the Swami Vivekananda Post-Matric Scholarship?

A student qualifies if all of these are true:

• The student is in Class 11 or Class 12.
• The school is a government school in Madhya Pradesh.
• The student passed the previous class in first division, Class 10 for Class 11, Class 11 for Class 12.
• Parental annual income is up to Rs 1,00,000, declared in a self-certified statement by the parent or guardian.
• The student belongs to the general category, the group the scheme was created for.
• The student holds a Samagra member ID and a bank account in the student's own name.

A student is not eligible if:

• The student is enrolled in a private school. The entitlement record restricts the scheme to government schools.
• The previous class was passed in second division or third division, or the student was placed in a supplementary or compartment category.
• Family income exceeds Rs 1,00,000 a year.
• The student is in Class 10 or below; Classes 9 and 10 are covered by the Sudama Pre-Matric Scholarship, and Classes 6 to 8 by the General Poor Class Scholarship.
• The student has already been sanctioned another post-matric scholarship for the same class and year. Madhya Pradesh does not stack two scholarships for the same head.
• Samagra or Aadhaar details do not match, or e-KYC is pending on the Shiksha Portal.

An SC, ST, OBC or minority student is not barred from education support. They are simply routed to their own department's post-matric scheme, which is usually larger. Claiming under the wrong scheme is one of the most common reasons a Class 11 student ends up with nothing.

What documents are required?

The department accepts a self-certified declaration for income rather than requiring a tehsildar's certificate, which removes the single biggest paperwork barrier at admission time.

How to apply for the Swami Vivekananda Post-Matric Scholarship

There is no citizen-facing application form. The school files the claim, and the family's task is to hand over clean documents early.

1. Check the previous class result. Confirm the student's Class 10 (or Class 11) result is a first-division pass, since this is the gate the scheme turns on.
2. Verify the Samagra ID, ensuring the name, date of birth and gender match the school register and the Aadhaar record exactly.
3. Open a bank account in the student's own name and get it Aadhaar-seeded so DBT can settle into it.
4. Give the class teacher the self-certified income declaration, the previous class marksheet, a BPL card copy if the family holds one, the Samagra ID and a copy of the bank passbook's first page.
5. Ask the school to register the student profile against this scheme on shikshaportal.mp.gov.in for the current academic year.
6. Complete Aadhaar e-KYC on the Shiksha Portal; by OTP on the Aadhaar-linked mobile number, or biometrically where no mobile is linked.
7. Track the claim with the Samagra ID and academic year, and repeat the whole process in Class 12, because the second year is a fresh mapping and not automatic.

How to follow up offline

1. Submit the documents physically to the class teacher and keep photocopies.
2. If nothing shows on the portal after a few weeks, take it to the school principal and then to the cluster principal, who is the designated officer for this scheme.
3. Escalate in writing to the Block Education Officer and then the District Education Officer, the appellate officers named in the entitlement record.

How to check status and payment

1. Open shikshaportal.mp.gov.in.
2. Choose the option to view student scholarship information.
3. Enter the student's Samagra ID, the academic year and the captcha.
4. Read the scheme-wise list, the sanctioned amount and the payment stage.

If no record appears, the school never mapped the student to the scheme. If a sanction appears without a credit, the problem is Aadhaar e-KYC or the bank account, not the sanction.

Why claims get rejected, and how to fix them

• Second-division pass in the previous class. The scheme has no published relaxation on first division; a second-division student should look at income-based schemes instead.
• Private school enrolment. Not covered, check that the school is genuinely a government school and not a private aided one.
• Income declaration missing or above the ceiling. Give the school a fresh, signed declaration in the format it uses.
• Bank account in a parent's name, or not Aadhaar-seeded. Student DBT will not settle. Open a minor account in the student's own name and seed it.
• Samagra and Aadhaar name mismatch. Correct the Samagra record first, then re-run e-KYC.
• Class 12 year not filed. The renewal is a new profile mapping each academic year.
• Double claim with a category scheme. Pick one; the department will not sanction two scholarships for the same class and year.

Key dates and how payment reaches you

The scheme carries no published last date. Schools build and verify student profiles through the academic session and the department sanctions in batches, so a student whose documents reach the class teacher in the first term is paid earliest. Payment is a Direct Benefit Transfer into the student's own account, and it is not adjusted against school fees.

Where to complain

• CM Helpline 181, the Madhya Pradesh government's grievance line, which carries this scheme in its entitlement grid.
• Cluster principal, the designated officer, followed by the Block Education Officer and District Education Officer as appellate officers.
• District Jansunwai at the collectorate for cases stuck at block level.

There is no application fee. No official, cyber cafe or agent may charge a student for having their name entered under this scholarship.