Mukhyamantri Chhatravritti Yojana (NCC Cadets, Uttarakhand)

What is the Mukhyamantri Chhatravritti Yojana for NCC cadets?

Mukhyamantri Chhatravritti Yojana is a scholarship of the Department of Education, Government of Uttarakhand, for National Cadet Corps (NCC) cadets in the state. The scheme gives annual cash scholarships to cadets who have completed their NCC training and moved on to higher education, so that the training does not end when school does.

The scheme is implemented not through a schools office but through the NCC chain of command, the designated Group Headquarters and Unit Offices under the administrative control of the State NCC Directorate. That is the single most important practical fact about it: a cadet does not apply to the Education Department, does not apply on a portal, and does not apply to a college scholarship cell. The application goes to the NCC unit.

Scholarship amounts range from Rs 600 to Rs 2,400 a year, split by two axes: whether the award is made at group level or unit level, and whether the cadet belongs to the Senior Division / Senior Wing or the Junior Division / Junior Wing.

How much does the Mukhyamantri Chhatravritti Yojana pay?

Group-level awards are the larger of the two and are made across a Group Headquarters; unit-level awards are made within an individual NCC unit. Senior Division applies to boy cadets in colleges and Senior Wing to girl cadets in colleges, while Junior Division and Junior Wing are the school-level equivalents.

The amounts are modest by design, this is a recognition and encouragement award for continued participation in education and NCC training, not a maintenance grant that covers fees or hostel costs.

Who is eligible for the Mukhyamantri Chhatravritti Yojana?

You are eligible if all of the following are true:

• You are an NCC cadet.
• You passed class 10 or class 12, or an equivalent examination, in the previous academic session.
• You have completed two years of NCC training.
• You maintained at least 80 per cent attendance in each year of NCC training.
• You are currently pursuing higher education.
• You are not receiving any other general or special scholarship from the Uttarakhand State Government.

You are not eligible if:

• You are not an NCC cadet, or your school or college has no functioning NCC unit through which the application can be routed.
• You have less than two years of NCC training behind you.
• Your attendance fell below 80 per cent in any one of the training years.
• You stopped studying after passing class 10 or class 12. The scheme requires that the cadet is currently in higher education.
• You are already drawing another State Government scholarship, general or special. Cadets holding a state scholarship must choose between the two.
• You passed the qualifying examination in a session earlier than the previous academic session.

What documents does an NCC cadet need?

How to apply for the Mukhyamantri Chhatravritti Yojana

1. Approach the NCC Unit or Group Headquarters attached to your school or college and ask for the prescribed application format. The Group Headquarters and Units collect applications from cadets of institutions where NCC is functional.
2. Fill the form completely and attach your class 10 or 12 marksheet, your NCC training and attendance record, proof of your current higher-education enrolment, and the caste certificate certified by the competent authority.
3. Submit the complete set to your Unit or Group Headquarters within the period the unit announces. There is no self-submission route and no online portal.
4. The Group Headquarters constitutes a "Board of Officers" which reviews and verifies the applications and processes the cadets' forms and all related documents.
5. The Group Headquarters forwards the complete application set to the State NCC Directorate.
6. On approval at the Directorate level, the scholarship amount is sanctioned and disbursed to the selected cadets.

How do I check the status of my application?

There is no public status-tracking page for this scheme, because it is not portal-based. The practical route is:

1. Ask the NCC officer (ANO) of your school or college whether your form was forwarded to Group Headquarters.
2. Ask the Group Headquarters whether the Board of Officers has completed its review and when the batch was sent to the Directorate.
3. Follow up with the State NCC Directorate for the sanction and disbursement stage.

Because a Board of Officers sits at Group level and sanction happens at Directorate level, a delay is usually at one of those two points, and the unit can normally say which.

Why NCC scholarship applications get rejected

• Attendance short of 80 per cent in one of the two training years, the most common technical failure.
• Fewer than two completed years of NCC training.
• The qualifying examination was not from the previous academic session.
• The cadet is not enrolled in higher education at the time of application.
• Another State Government scholarship is already being drawn.
• Caste certificate not certified by the competent authority, or missing from the set forwarded to the Directorate.
• Form submitted after the unit closed its collection, so it missed the batch sent up to Group Headquarters.

The fix for most of these is procedural and lies with the unit: an incomplete document set can usually be completed before the Board of Officers meets, but not after the batch has gone to the Directorate.

Practical notes for cadets and parents

Mukhyamantri Chhatravritti Yojana is a small, unit-administered award, and it behaves like one. There is no advertised state-wide last date; each Group Headquarters and Unit calls for applications after the previous session's results are out. Cadets who leave school and lose contact with their ANO are the ones who most often miss it, so the single most useful step is to collect the ANO's contact details before leaving the institution where you trained.

Cadets should also note the no-double-scholarship condition. If you are already receiving a state scholarship — for example a departmental scholarship for Scheduled Caste, Scheduled Tribe, OBC or divyang students through the Social Welfare Department. You cannot hold this one alongside it, and declaring otherwise will cause the application to fail at verification.

Where to get help

• Your NCC unit's Associate NCC Officer (ANO) at the school or college where you trained. The first and most useful contact.
• The NCC Group Headquarters covering your district, which constitutes the Board of Officers.
• The State NCC Directorate, which sanctions and disburses the amount.
• Department of Education, Government of Uttarakhand. The nodal department for the scheme.

No verified toll-free helpline is published specifically for this scheme, so this guide does not list one. The scheme's benefit rates, eligibility conditions and application process on this page are taken from the Uttarakhand government's departmental scheme guidelines document (page 148).