Bihar State Alpsankhyak Awasiya Vidyalaya Yojana(BSAAVY)

Overview

About BSAAVY

This scheme pays no money to anybody. The Minority Welfare Department, Government of Bihar spends it on buildings and boarders instead: a selected child is given a place in a school the department owns and staffs, from Class 9 through Class 12, with the admission charged at nothing and the food, clothing, medicine and books that go with living there charged at nothing as well.

Entry happens at two points only, Class 9 and Class 11, and it is won in a written examination rather than granted on an application. That reorders everything a family has to do. The certificates are a qualifying step; the child's marks in a state level entrance paper decide the seat, and the department then decides which school the child goes to.

The schools are ordinary boarding schools in their working day. The department's scheme booklet, reproduced by the Bihar State Minorities Financial Corporation, sets out that they run on a co-education system and that special coaching and vocational training are to be arranged inside the school (Yojna Darpan, Minority Welfare Department). The subject offer at the intermediate stage, and the laboratory, come from the admission advertisements rather than the booklet: Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry and Biology, and Arts.

The network is in two halves, and a family needs to know which half it is dealing with, because the two do not share a calendar. Kishanganj and Darbhanga are the older pair and the department advertises and fills them on their own schedule. A newer group of schools, spread across a different set of districts and described in the FAQ below, is advertised separately by the district minority welfare offices. Both halves were admitting students in the 2026-27 session, on separate notices and separate merit lists, and the department's notice board carries the two streams interleaved (Minority Welfare Department, Government of Bihar).

Who runs it

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At a glance

Key details

Calendar

Important dates

The dates move, and they move both between the two halves of the network and within a single round. The clearest complete cycle the department has published end to end is the one for the session it advertised in 2024, when applications closed in September and the children who won seats were in class before the end of October (Minority Welfare Department admission notice, session 2024-25).

The most recent round for the newer schools ran on a spring calendar instead. Applications opened in April, were extended once, and closed on 30/05/2026 under the notification the Madhubani district administration posted on 09/05/2026 (Madhubani district administration). A correction window, the admit card download, the paper and the result followed through June, in that order and at roughly weekly intervals, all of them set out in the district advertisement itself (District Minority Welfare Office, Madhubani).

The back half of that cycle is the part no aggregator carries, and it ran long. The merit list and the school allotments went out in July with an enrolment window of one week; the department then extended enrolment till 07.08.2026, published second merit lists in August, put back the start of teaching, and extended enrolment again by an order issued at the start of September, each step going up as its own notice on the department's board (Minority Welfare Department, Government of Bihar). A merit listed child should therefore read the newest order rather than the date printed on an earlier one, and should keep the originals and the travel money ready well past the day first announced.

Who can apply

Eligibility criteria

Four conditions run together, and the advertisement issued by the District Minority Welfare Office, Madhubani for the newer schools states each of them: the child must be a permanent resident of Bihar from one of the state's notified minority communities, which it lists as Muslim, Sikh, Christian, Buddhist, Jain and Parsi; the maximum age is sixteen years for Class 9 and eighteen years for Class 11; the family's annual income must not exceed six lakh rupees; and students who have passed the Wastania and Faukania examinations are also eligible to apply (District Minority Welfare Office, Madhubani).

That last clause is the one worth reading twice. Madrasa students are not an afterthought to be accommodated later; the Wastania and Faukania passes of the Bihar Madarsa Education Board, Patna are named in the eligibility list itself, alongside the ordinary school route. The department writes the income ceiling out in words, six lakh rupees, in its own admission notice as well, and the age ceilings have been reprinted unchanged from one advertisement to the next.

Class 11 entry is narrower than Class 9 entry in one respect. Every notice the department publishes describes the Class 11 seat as being in the Arts or the Science faculty, and names no third faculty, so a student intending Commerce has nothing here to apply for.

Who cannot apply

Exclusions

Neither the department's notices nor the district advertisement carries a list of disqualified categories. That gap is real, and it should not be filled with guesswork; what the documents do instead is draw the boundary from the inside. A child outside the two entry classes, a child past the age ceiling for the class applied to, a family above the income limit and a household whose permanent residence lies outside Bihar all fall outside what the eligibility clause admits.

One practical exclusion is worth naming because families run into it. A seat is attached to a school, and under this scheme the school may not even be in the district the child applied from. There is no day scholar option, so a child who cannot board away from home cannot take up a place that is offered.

Continuation

Renewal conditions

There is nothing to file again. The unit of this scheme is a school place rather than an annual grant, and once a child is enrolled the place carries through to Class 12 in the school the department allotted, which is why every document describes the benefit as education from Class 9 to Class 12 rather than as a yearly award. No renewal form, no annual verification round and no re-application window appears anywhere in the department's published notices.

Continuation is therefore a school matter rather than a departmental one. Progress, conduct and attendance are handled by the school and its management committee, and nothing published sets out a yearly departmental review that a parent would have to attend to.

What you get

Award & benefits

The benefit is delivered in kind and it is delivered in full. Admission is free, and the district advertisement lists free residential facilities covering food, clothing, medicine and books, along with a modern laboratory and the intermediate subject choice described above (District Minority Welfare Office, Madhubani).

Seats inside each school are divided before merit is applied. The same advertisement reserves half of the seats for girls, and within both the boys' and the girls' categories reserves three-quarters of the seats for rural students. The split is not the district office's invention: the department's own admission notice traces it to a clause of the guidelines issued under its resolution on the scheme, and the scheme booklet carries the same two fractions. A rural girl counts in both protected pools, and she is the candidate the seat structure is built around.

What is not published anywhere is how many seats those fractions divide. No notice, advertisement or district page gives an intake for a single one of these schools, so a family cannot work out its odds before sitting the paper, and nobody should quote a figure for it.

• Under this scheme, students from minority communities enrolled in residential schools will receive the following benefits:
• Free education from Class 9 to Class 12.
• Provision of free accommodation, including food, clothing, medicine, and books, along with free enrollment/admission.
• Access to well-equipped modern laboratories.
• Facility for studying subjects like PCM (Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics), PCB (Physics, Chemistry, Biology), Arts, etc., at the higher secondary (Intermediate) level.
• Provision for special coaching and vocational training within the school.

What to prepare

Documents required

The document set is the standard Bihar welfare set, and the district advertisement lists it as caste, income and residence certificates, self attested copies of the educational certificates, a passport size photograph with a signature, and proof of age.

Two of these deserve early attention because another office issues them and takes its own time over it. The residence and income certificates come from the circle office, and they are the usual reason a family misses a window. The age proof has to agree with the date of birth on the school record, because the ceiling is applied against the class being entered rather than the class already passed.

Step by step

How to apply

The route has changed, and the description still circulating on scheme aggregators is the older one. The national scheme record gives the application mode for this scheme as offline and describes collecting or downloading a form and lodging it by registered post, which is exactly what the department required for the session it advertised in 2024: the prescribed form, Form I for Class 9 and Form II for Class 11, downloaded from the department's website and submitted at the District Minority Welfare Office of the home district by registered post or by hand, with a receipt taken (Minority Welfare Department admission notice, session 2024-25).

That has since been reversed. The district advertisement now directs applicants to apply online through the department's citizen portal and then to file a hard copy of the same application at the District Minority Welfare Office (District Minority Welfare Office, Madhubani), and the portal it names by URL is the department's own citizen home page (Minority Welfare Department citizen portal). The department had already moved the Kishanganj and Darbhanga pair online a session earlier. So the hard copy has not gone away, but it now follows the online submission instead of replacing it, and a family that trusts the offline description on an aggregator will file the wrong way and possibly too late.

Following an application through to a seat

There is no login page that shows a running status line, and waiting for one is how a seat gets lost. What exists instead is a notice board, and everything after the form appears on it as a dated PDF: the admit card window, the merit list, a second merit list against the seats the first round did not fill, the allotment of a school to each selected child, the enrolment window, and every extension of that window. The department's own site is the primary board (Minority Welfare Department, Government of Bihar), and district administrations mirror the parts that concern them, as Kishanganj did when it published the Class 9, Class 11 Arts and Class 11 Science merit lists for the Bihar State Minority Residential School at Deramari, Kochadhaman (Kishanganj district administration).

Between those postings, the office that can answer a question about a submitted form is the District Minority Welfare Office where the hard copy was lodged, because that is where the paper file physically sits.

How winners are picked

Selection process

Selection is a single written test. Admission to Class 9 and Class 11 is made on the merit of an entrance examination that the department's notice and the district advertisement both describe as an objective paper of two hours' duration. There is no interview, and no school level screening appears anywhere in the published process, so the paper carries the whole decision.

The reservation described above is applied to the merit list rather than to the applicant pool, so a rural candidate and an urban candidate are ranked on the same paper and then placed against different pools of seats.

Two things happen after the list that families do not expect. The first is allotment: the department names the school each selected child is to enrol in, and for candidates from districts without a campus of their own that school stands somewhere else. The second is the second list. Where the first round leaves seats empty the department publishes a further merit list against those vacancies, which it did for both halves of the network during the last session, so a candidate who missed the first cut is not necessarily finished for the year.

Fine print

Terms & conditions

The conditions that shape this scheme are mostly conditions on the schools rather than on the students, and they explain why the campuses sit where they do. The department's scheme booklet requires a site of at least three acres for a residential school, ordinarily provided by the government, and it allows land donated or leased by a waqf, a madrasa, a trust or a society to be used instead, so long as the lease for construction runs at least thirty years (Yojna Darpan, Minority Welfare Department).

Two clauses on that page matter to the institutions that give the land. Land given by a waqf or a madrasa carries no obligation to transfer it into the government's name. And the donor or lessor is given a place on the district steering committee and on the school management committee, with the school to be named on their recommendation. That is an unusual bargain in an Indian school scheme, and it is worth knowing about if a local institution is being asked for a site.

For the student, the binding terms are the ones already stated: the co-educational character of the school, the reservation split, the two entry classes and the entrance paper. Nothing in the published documents imposes a bond, a service condition or a repayment obligation on a child who leaves.

Get help

Contact

The working counter for this scheme is the District Minority Welfare Office at the district headquarters. The department's booklet sends applicants there for the form and for further information, it is where the hard copy of an online application is filed, and each district publishes that office's telephone number and its NIC email address on the district administration's own site.

Above it sits the Minority Welfare Department in Patna, which issues the notices, hosts the citizen portal used for the online application and maintains the board every merit list appears on. The scheme's national record, which the department's data feeds, sits on the Government of India's scheme portal (myScheme, Government of India).

Source

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Frequently asked questions

From the official scheme FAQ (myScheme)

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Disclaimer

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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