Uttar Pradesh Scholarship Scheme (Pre-Matric and Post-Matric)

What is the Uttar Pradesh Scholarship Scheme?

Uttar Pradesh Scholarship Scheme is the state's single largest student welfare programme, run by the Social Welfare Department (Samaj Kalyan Vibhag) of the Government of Uttar Pradesh in coordination with the Backward Classes Welfare Department, the Minority Welfare Department and the Tribal Welfare Department. All four departments pay through one common portal, scholarship.up.gov.in, which is why students see a single application even though the money reaches them from different budget heads.

The scheme is not one scholarship but a family of scholarships grouped into two blocks:

• Pre-matric scholarship, for students of Classes 9 and 10, and in some category streams Classes 11 and 12 where they are treated as pre-matric.
• Post-matric scholarship, called Dashmottar in the Uttar Pradesh portal's own language, for students of Class 11 and above including undergraduate, postgraduate, technical, medical, engineering, management and diploma courses.

Both blocks pay through Direct Benefit Transfer into the student's own Aadhaar-seeded bank account, routed through the Public Financial Management System. No cash and no cheque is issued, and no money passes through the college.

The scheme covers Scheduled Caste, Scheduled Tribe, Other Backward Class, Minority and General (EWS) students. The General-category stream is what many students search for as "UP scholarship for general category", and it is real. It is administered by the Social Welfare Department under the same income ceiling structure.

Who is eligible for the UP Scholarship Scheme?

You can claim the scholarship if:

• You are domiciled in Uttar Pradesh and hold a tehsil-issued domicile certificate.
• You are studying in a recognised institution, that is, a school affiliated to a recognised board or a college affiliated to a recognised university, and that institution is registered on the scholarship portal.
• Your annual family income is within the ceiling for your category and stage: Rs 2.50 lakh for all pre-matric students and for SC and ST post-matric students, and Rs 2 lakh for General, OBC and Minority post-matric students.
• You have completed One Time Registration (OTR) on the portal with your Aadhaar number.
• You hold a bank account in your own name, seeded with your Aadhaar.

You cannot apply, or are not eligible, if:

• You are not domiciled in Uttar Pradesh, even if you study inside the state.
• You are repeating the same class or year that you already drew a scholarship for. The scheme funds progression, not repetition.
• Your family income exceeds the category ceiling, or your income certificate cannot be verified against the e-District database.
• You are already drawing another government scholarship for the same course in the same year. Two scholarships for one year of study are not permitted.
• Your institution is not recognised or not registered on scholarship.up.gov.in. This is the reason many private-institute students find they cannot even select their college name in the dropdown.
• Your bank account is a joint account or a parent's account. The account must be the student's own.

How much money does the UP Scholarship pay?

Amounts differ by category, stage and whether the student is a day scholar or a hosteller, and the Social Welfare Department revises the rates by government order. The broad, published pattern is:

For post-matric courses, the payment has two parts: a maintenance allowance and a fee reimbursement. Fee reimbursement is capped at the fee approved for that course and that institution by the state fee-fixation committee, so a private college charging above the approved fee will only see the approved portion reimbursed, and the student pays the difference.

Because rate revisions are issued year to year by government order, treat the table above as indicative and confirm the current rate for your exact category and course on the government order section of scholarship.up.gov.in.

What documents are required for the UP Scholarship?

Both the income certificate and the caste certificate are verified electronically against the e-District database using the certificate application number. A certificate that exists on paper but does not resolve online will fail, so always enter the application number exactly as printed.

How to apply for the UP Scholarship online

1. Open scholarship.up.gov.in and complete One Time Registration (OTR) using your Aadhaar number and an Aadhaar-linked mobile number for OTP. Save the OTR number that is generated; it stays with you for your whole student career.
2. Select Student → Registration, then pick your stage (Pre-Matric or Dashmottar) and your category (SC/ST, General, OBC or Minority).
3. Fill the registration form with your name exactly as printed on the Class 10 mark sheet, your date of birth, your institution and your course. Submit and note the registration number and password shown on screen.
4. Log in again as a registered student and complete the full application form, entering your income certificate application number, caste certificate application number where applicable, bank account number and IFSC.
5. Upload the scanned documents in the sizes the portal specifies, then click Final Submit. Nothing is sent to the department until Final Submit is done — a saved draft is not an application.
6. Take a printout of the submitted form, sign it, attach photocopies of the documents, and hand it to your institution's scholarship clerk or principal before the hard copy deadline.
7. Ask the institution to forward your form online. The district officer can only see forms that the institution has forwarded.

How to apply offline or with help

Uttar Pradesh Scholarship Scheme has no purely offline route; every application must exist on scholarship.up.gov.in. Students without their own device can use:

1. A Common Service Centre (Jan Seva Kendra), which will fill and upload the form for a government-notified service charge.
2. The institution's own computer lab, which most schools and colleges open during the application window.
3. The district Social Welfare Office or the Backward Classes Welfare Office, which run help desks during the fresh application window.

The printed hard copy, however, is always submitted physically to the institution. That step is offline and it is the one students most often skip.

How to check UP Scholarship status and payment

1. Open scholarship.up.gov.in and select Status.
2. Choose your stage and category, then enter your registration number, board or university roll number and date of birth.
3. Read the stage shown. Typical stages are Application submitted to institution, Forwarded by institution, Verified by district officer, Sent to PFMS and Amount transferred.

If the status shows Amount transferred but no credit has reached your account, the failure is almost always at the bank: an inactive account, an account not seeded with Aadhaar, or a closed account. Fix the account first, then ask the district Social Welfare Office to re-push the payment in the next PFMS cycle.

Why UP Scholarship applications get rejected, and how to fix them

• Bank account not Aadhaar seeded. Visit the branch and ask for Aadhaar seeding with NPCI mapping, not just "Aadhaar linked in KYC".
• Name mismatch across Aadhaar, bank and school records. Correct the Aadhaar or the bank record so all three read identically, including middle names.
• Income certificate verification failure. Get a fresh e-District income certificate for the current financial year and re-enter the application number.
• Institution did not forward the form. Follow up in person; an unforwarded form is invisible to the department and will lapse at the deadline.
• Hard copy not submitted. The online form alone is not enough for most streams; submit the signed printout.
• Duplicate or repeat claim. A student who failed and is repeating the same year cannot draw the scholarship again for that year.

Key dates for 2026-27

According to the scholarship portal's published calendar, fresh applications for Classes 9 to 12 run from 11 August to 21 September 2026, renewal for those classes closes on 25 August 2026, fresh Dashmottar applications run from 15 September to 31 October 2026, and Dashmottar renewal closes on 15 October 2026. The department has extended these dates in several past years, but no student should plan around an extension.

Where to complain about a UP Scholarship problem

• District Social Welfare Officer, for SC, ST and General category cases.
• District Backward Classes Welfare Officer, for OBC cases.
• District Minority Welfare Officer, for Minority cases.
• Jansunwai portal at jansunwai.up.nic.in, the state's integrated grievance system, where a scholarship complaint can be registered against the district office and tracked by reference number.
• The helpline numbers published on scholarship.up.gov.in for the relevant category, which change between sessions and should be read off the live portal rather than copied from a news article.

Applying is free. If any person offers to "get your scholarship passed" for money, that is a fraud and should be reported through Jansunwai.