Assistance for Purchasing Study Materials for Medical and Engineering Students from Socially and Educationally Backward Classes(APSMMESSEBC)

Overview

About APSMMESSEBC

The hard part of this claim is recognising it on the portal, because the state does not call it what the scheme record calls it. A district administration's list of the scholarship services an SEBC student files through Digital Gujarat carries it as BCK-80 Instrumental Assistance For Medical, Engineering, Diploma Students (SEBC) (District Banaskantha, scholarship services), and the Director, Developing Castes Welfare heads its own page for the benefit Financial Assistance to Purchase Medical and Engineering Instruments (Director, Developing Castes Welfare). Study material is the plain description of the purchase; instruments and equipment are what the state's own paperwork calls it.

That directorate is the arm of the Social Justice and Empowerment Department that handles Socially and Educationally Backward Class students, and it runs the claim as a reimbursement rather than as a maintenance allowance. The current year's filing instructions attach the benefit to the first year of the course and ask the student to produce the bills for the purchase, at government, grant-in-aid and self-financed institutions alike (Director, Developing Castes Welfare filing instructions). A student who bought nothing and kept no receipt has no claim to file, whatever the certificate says.

The form itself is filled in the Digital Gujarat citizen login, but the notices, guidelines and dates for this directorate's scholarship lines are published on the Gujarat State Scholarship Portal, and that notice board is what a student should read before filing. The scheme record carries no opening or closing date because those are not permanent attributes of the scheme in Gujarat: they are re-announced each academic year.

Who runs it

Provider

At a glance

Key details

Calendar

Important dates

The scheme record carries no open or close date, so the portal's notice board is the date of record. Developing-caste students file inside the window announced for the OBC stream.

Because the claim belongs to the first year of the course, the window in that first year is the only one a student gets at it, and the reopening in the table is a discretionary second chance for one named group and year rather than a fixture. The directorate's standing advice is not to wait for the closing date, since a form returned for correction still has to come back before it shuts.

Who can apply

Eligibility criteria

Two conditions decide this claim before residence or caste ever come into it, and neither appears in the scheme record. The benefit is confined to students in the first year of the medical, engineering or diploma course, and the purchase bills have to be produced. Where the directorate's ordinary post-matric line for the same students pays only at government and grant-in-aid institutions, this one names self-financed colleges too, so a first-year student in a private engineering college is inside the scheme rather than outside it (Director, Developing Castes Welfare filing instructions).

The paperwork test is who issued the certificate, not what it says. Only a caste certificate and a guardian's income certificate issued by a competent authority may be uploaded, and the instructions name the substitutes accepted where the father has died or the parents have separated, plus an income-tax document from the employer where the guardian is in government service. A student whose studies stopped for a while after SSC files a sworn statement covering that gap, and it goes into the upload and into the paper file both (Director, Developing Castes Welfare filing instructions).

Who cannot apply

Exclusions

The scheme record publishes no exclusion list, so what disqualifies a student has to be read out of the filing instructions, and it is procedural rather than categorical.

A form that was filled but never taken through Confirm and Final Submit does not count as an application. Neither does one that was submitted online but whose signed printout, with the documents attached, never reached the institution. Picking a different scheme by mistake is worse than it looks, because the difference in amount cannot be claimed afterwards, and the first-year restriction means the same student cannot simply file this claim again in a later year of the course. Entering false information or hiding something closes the portal to that student for scholarship forms altogether, and an attempt to draw money by concealment ends in blacklisting (Director, Developing Castes Welfare filing instructions).

Continuation

Renewal conditions

Nothing renews here. The benefit attaches to one purchase in the first year of the course, so there is no second year of it to carry forward.

The Renewal mode a student may have heard of belongs to the directorate's recurring post-matric scholarships, where last year's sanctioned application reopens automatically and the student is told not to file fresh (Director, Developing Castes Welfare filing instructions). A Renewal button appearing in a year you expected to claim this grant is pointing at a different line in the same list.

What you get

Award & benefits

Gujarat publishes the amount in more than one place and the figures do not agree, which is worth knowing before you plan around any of them. The directorate's own scheme page still carries the older card:

The rate table inside the current year's filing instructions is the one a form is actually measured against, and it does not match that page. Its income ceiling for this line is the higher one the scheme record on this page states rather than the scheme page's older limit, its medical, engineering and diploma rates sit above both the ones in that card and the ones the scheme record carries, and it books them as annual rates while confining the claim to the first year, which is how an annual rate and a one-time grant describe the same single payment (Director, Developing Castes Welfare filing instructions). The directorate closes that table by saying the details are for guidance and the government resolution governs, so the resolution for your filing year is the number that binds.

Whatever the figure, the money moves one way. It is credited to the bank account seeded to the student's Aadhaar number rather than to whatever account is typed into the form, an account left dormant or short of its KYC cannot receive it, and no part of this benefit is paid offline (Director, Developing Castes Welfare filing instructions).

• Financial assistance per student: For Medical Student: ₹10,000/-
• For Engineering Student: ₹8,000/-
• For Diploma Student: ₹3,000/-

What to prepare

Documents required

The bill is the document that separates this claim from every other scholarship in the dropdown, and the instructions ask for the purchase bills as a condition of the benefit rather than as an optional attachment (Director, Developing Castes Welfare filing instructions).

Around it sits the directorate's standard set, and its rule on form matters as much as its list. Scans must come from originals; a photocopy passes only where no original exists. The self-attested paper set then goes to the institution with the printout. Marksheets are wanted in sequence from the school-leaving examination onwards, not the latest year alone, and where a bank has merged the account number and IFSC on the passbook or cheque have to be the post-merger ones. A hosteller adds the hostel certificate downloaded from the portal's Instruction page and stamped by the hostel authority, a student with a disability the competent authority's certificate, a married female applicant the marriage certificate, and everyone the current photograph and the Aadhaar number. District officers may call for more (Director, Developing Castes Welfare filing instructions).

Step by step

How to apply

Registration on the Digital Gujarat citizen login comes first, with a mobile number and an email address, and My Profile has to be updated before any scholarship form will open. A student who has used the portal before logs in with the old credentials and resets a forgotten password by OTP.

No other corner of the portal accepts a scholarship application: the student goes to Services, opens Scholarship Services, and clicks Request a New Service before the financial-year drop-down appears. Open the block headed Director Developing Caste Welfare and pick the equipment line out of it rather than the post-matric line above it. Then work through Registration, Bank, Academic and Disability, upload the documents and the photograph, take an OTP through Verify Mobile Number, and finish with Confirm and Final Submit, which sends the application into the institution's own login. Print it, attach the papers, and deposit the file with the institution. An E-gram centre will key the form in where the applicant is rural.

Status lives on the same screen rather than on a tracking page. The financial year drop-down reaches back over earlier years, so a claim filed in a previous cycle can be opened and read instead of guessed at. Nothing can be edited after Final Submit, but while the Withdraw button is still showing in the student login the institution has not acted on the form, and the student can pull it back, fix it and send it again; once the institution has acted, only the institution can return it for correction. The last leg is a bank question, not a portal one, because the credit follows the Aadhaar seeding (Director, Developing Castes Welfare filing instructions).

How winners are picked

Selection process

There is no merit rank, no cut-off and no interview published for this grant. What stands in for selection is a verification chain: the student sends the form, the institution checks it against the physical file and forwards it, and the district Developing Castes Welfare office processes it and can ask for further evidence before it clears (Director, Developing Castes Welfare filing instructions). The evidence a bill-backed claim turns on is the purchase itself, so the receipts belong in the paper file from the day it is deposited.

Fine print

Terms & conditions

One scholarship is payable in a recognised academic session. The registered mobile number has to stay live until the money arrives, because the OTPs and the notices go to it, and a number that is lost or disconnected is changed only at the district office of the concerned welfare directorate, in person and against proof of identity.

Two failures are the applicant's own to carry. Choosing the wrong institution or the wrong course sends the application into some other college's login, and typing a wrong bank account number sends the money to somebody else (Director, Developing Castes Welfare filing instructions).

Get help

Contact

Scheme questions, a file stuck after verification, or a certificate the district office has queried belong with the Director, Developing Castes Welfare. Its published address is Block No. 4, 3rd Floor, Dr. Jivraj Mehta Bhavan, Gandhinagar. The number the directorate lists against itself is +91 79 23253245 (Director, Developing Castes Welfare). A fault in the portal itself is a different call: the help desk number published for filing trouble is 18002335500 (Gujarat State Scholarship Portal). A form already lodged is sitting in the institution's own login, which is why its scholarship clerk usually answers a where-is-it question sooner than either office.

Source

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Frequently asked questions

From the official scheme FAQ (myScheme)

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Disclaimer

Scheme details are compiled from myScheme, the Government of India’s official scheme-discovery platform, and are reproduced without alteration. Amounts, deadlines and eligibility change between cycles, so always confirm on the official links above before applying. Expertie does not process applications or charge fees.

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