Consolidated Stipend Scheme for Scheduled Caste Students Pursuing Higher Education(CSSSCSPHE)

The scheme dates to 1 July 2008 and carries no fixed annual opening date in the public record. What the portal publishes is the closing side: for the most recent cycle it shows the Consolidated Stipend Scheme For SC Students closed on 11 February 2026, the same date it shows against Free Books For SC Students and the rest of the Directorate of Higher Education list (Har-Chhatravratti).

The payment months are the stable part of the calendar. September, November, January and March under the original schedule, November and January under the New Mode of Payment, and October for the book grant (scheme guidelines).

Eligibility turns on where you study before it turns on anything about you. The portal's comparison table places this scheme in the Govt Only row, with Haryana domicile, SC category, no family income ceiling and a 60% attendance floor, while the Post Matric Scholarship for SC students on the same table accepts Govt, Aided and SFC institutes, caps family income at Rs 2,50,000 a year and sets attendance at 75% (Har-Chhatravratti eligibility table).

The guidelines add the academic condition and put it in the college's hands. A student furnishes the principal with the certificate of the previous examination passed, the one on which admission to the present class was taken, and a student who failed the last university examination is not eligible for that year's stipend (scheme guidelines).

The two exclusions bite at different scales, and only one of them is permanent for the year. Failing the last university examination takes you out for that year outright. Attendance below 60% costs you only the bi-monthly period in which it happened, and even that is recoverable: meet the attendance condition over the next two months and the withheld amount can be released, so the payment covers four months instead of two (scheme guidelines). The guidelines are open that the rule exists to make students more regular in class rather than to save money.

No separate renewal form is published for this scheme. What carries a student from one year to the next is the pass condition, and the paperwork that goes with it: the last examination passed certificate is on the portal's document list for everyone except first-year students (How To Apply, Har-Chhatravratti). The tracking form treats each year as its own case, offering academic sessions from 2020-21 through 2025-26 (Track Application).

Three payments sit under the one scheme name, and each runs on its own clock.

Two payment schedules sit in the same document, one after the other, and neither carries a date. The original one released the stipend in four bi-monthly instalments, in September, November, January and March, with the March release covering January to June because the financial year closes there and students are sitting annual examinations, and it moved the money through a college bank account. The section headed New Mode of Payment replaces that machinery with the Public Financial Management System: the stipend in two half-yearly instalments in the first week of November and of January, the book money in one yearly instalment in October, and the credit landing in the student's own Aadhaar seeded bank account (scheme guidelines).

The newer section is the one operating now, and the evidence for that is the machinery rather than a notification. It describes verification on the online scholarship portal before the directorate releases funds, which is what Har-Chhatravratti was built to do, and the portal's own notice board is about scholarship amounts returned to the department over discrepancies in student bank accounts and Aadhaar details, a failure that only exists once money goes to the student directly instead of to the college (Har-Chhatravratti). What the record still leaves unsettled is the calendar, because the older months were never struck out of the document. The rate is not, so plan on Rs 1,000 a month across a July to June year (scheme guidelines) and ask your college's scholarship nodal officer which months this session is being paid in.

The hostel top-up is the one component that turns on a fact the college certifies rather than on marks or attendance, and it is paid to SC students availing hostel facility in two half-yearly instalments covering July to December and January to June (scheme guidelines).

The guidelines and the portal ask for different things, and the gap is worth reading before you scan anything. The guidelines are old and short, and they name three photocopies handed to the principal of the college: the SC certificate, the Haryana domicile certificate, and the previous examination passed (scheme guidelines). The portal's list is longer, and it is published as key documents for the platform rather than as a set written for this scheme (How To Apply, Har-Chhatravratti).

The join between the two lists is Parivar Pehchan Patra. The 2008 document predates the family ID; the portal now builds the registration form out of it, which is why a wrong name, date of birth or Aadhaar number has to be repaired inside the family record and pulled back in with the portal's Fetch latest data from PPP button, and cannot be typed over in the scholarship form (student FAQ, Har-Chhatravratti).

Registration runs off the Parivar Pehchan Patra rather than off details you type, and the scholarship application only opens after that. What is specific here is the name to look for. The home page lists the stipend and the book grant as two rows, but the tracking form merges them into a single entry called Consolidated Stipend and Free Books Scheme For SC (Track Application).

Status is visible two ways and neither needs a phone call: the dashboard after logging in, or the Track Application form reached from the home page, which asks for the Aadhaar number, the scheme and the academic session (student FAQ). Both are read-only, so a mistake spotted there cannot be corrected there.

Two correction routes exist, and neither is where a student would look for it. If you applied under the wrong scheme, you raise a cancellation request from the student login with a scanned copy of the application and the reason, and the college approves or rejects it. If the wrong field is one the institute cannot edit, such as institute name, course and branch or annual income, you ask the college's scholarship nodal officer to raise an objection, which pushes the application back to you for editing and resubmission (student FAQ).

Payment can fail after every one of those steps has gone right. The department's notice board records scholarship amounts of earlier academic years returned to it over discrepancies in student bank accounts or Aadhaar details, and the home page carries a link to check Aadhaar bank seeding status in the NPCI mapper (Har-Chhatravratti). Where a college is still paying on the older route, the guidelines add a second window worth watching: the directorate transfers in the first week of the month the stipend falls due, and the college has to move it on within one week and not later than the 15th (scheme guidelines).

Nothing here is ranked. Eligibility and the attendance count settle it, and under the original mode the arithmetic sat with the college: on the basis of attendance in class, the authorised person wrote to the bank naming the eligible students and the amount to be moved from the college account to each student account (scheme guidelines).

The New Mode of Payment turns that certification into data. The principals forward the verified student data on the online scholarship portal, the registration branch of the concerned university verifies it at the second step, and the directorate does the final verification before disbursing through PFMS into the beneficiary's Aadhaar seeded bank account (scheme guidelines). Any of those three desks can hold a file, which is why an unpaid stipend is a question for the college before it is a question for Panchkula.

The original mode of payment never let the money reach a student as cash, and the guidelines are unusually specific about the plumbing. Each college holds one account in a nationalised bank, operated by the principal or the nodal officer; the directorate transfers the stipend into it, and the college has to move it into student accounts within one week and not later than the 15th of the month. From that account money can only be transferred to students, and the principal or nodal officer is not authorised to draw any cash from it (scheme guidelines). The New Mode of Payment routes past that leg by sending PFMS credits straight to the student, but the clauses are left standing in the document.

One clause pays the people who run the scheme rather than the students who receive it. At the time of transfer of amounts to student accounts, four times in a year, the nodal officer draws an honorarium of a maximum of Rs 4,000 and the clerk or assistant a maximum of Rs 2,000, both preferably from the SC category, and the principal and nodal officer jointly operate the college account for the limited purpose of those transfers and that drawal (scheme guidelines). It is an administration cost inside the scheme, not a benefit an applicant can claim.

Scheme-level questions belong to the Directorate of Higher Education, Haryana, at Shiksha Sadan, Ground and 1st Floor, Sector 5, Panchkula 134105, on 0172-2565530, with helpdeskscholarship@highereduhry.ac.in as the scholarship help desk address (Har-Chhatravratti contact page).

A complaint about one particular application is a different matter and goes through the portal rather than by mail. Register Grievance and Track Grievance are separate links in the portal's own menu, and a grievance registered there carries a reference a college can be asked about (Har-Chhatravratti).