Divyangjan Scholarship Scheme(DSSMP)

Overview

About DSSMP

Chhattisgarh's Divyangjan Scholarship Scheme pays a school student with a disability between Rs 150 and Rs 190 a month, and the rate turns on nothing except which class the student sits in (Social Welfare Department, Chhattisgarh). The Social Welfare Department writes the rules; a district office signs the sanction; the form travels on paper through the head of the school.

The complication is that the department's own website did not respond at all while this page was being checked, and neither did the state portal two districts point applicants at for the form. Everything below is sourced either to a district administration page that is still live or to an archived copy of the departmental page, and each is labelled so a reader can see which is which.

The scheme is written in Hindi as दिव्यांगजन छात्रवृत्ति योजना, and the department's own pages carry it under the pre-2016 title निःशक्तजन छात्रवृत्ति योजना (Social Welfare Department, Chhattisgarh). The wording changed after the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act, 2016, and the older name still appears on forms and district notices, so a search that draws a blank on one term is worth repeating with the other.

The department states the purpose as helping children with disabilities obtain an education, and the scheme is built to match that scale: it is not a fee waiver, not a one-time grant and not a loan, but a small recurring amount attached to a school year.

Where the published material pulls in two directions is the level it reaches. The rate table stops at Class 12, while the eligibility line admits a regular student of a school, a college or a technical school, and district administrations describe the beneficiaries more widely still, in their own wording as disabled students from primary education up to postgraduate and professional graduate levels (District Bilaspur). No rate has been published above Class 12, so a college student who satisfies the eligibility wording has no amount to expect here.

The state does have a separate instrument for that student. Its higher education incentive pays Rs 6000 a year to a regular student in ITI, polytechnic, or a graduate or postgraduate arts, commerce or science course, and Rs 12000 a year to one in medical, technical or professional education, alongside one-time amounts of Rs 2000 and Rs 5000 for the highest-scoring candidate with a disability in a district at the Class 10 and Class 12 board examinations (Social Welfare Department, higher education incentive). Its paperwork is heavier: that scheme asks for a medical certificate, an income certificate and a caste certificate to be attached to the prescribed form before it goes to the joint director or deputy director of the district Panchayat and Social Welfare office.

Who runs it

Provider

At a glance

Key details

Calendar

Important dates

No application window has been notified for this scheme and no annual calendar for it appears on the department's pages or on any district portal, so there is no date to wait for.

What the district sites do carry are old windows tied to the financial year rather than the academic one. Bilaspur published the scheme against 01/04/2018 to 31/03/2019 (District Bilaspur), and Surguja and Korea both against 16/06/2018 to 30/04/2019 (District Surguja). None has been refreshed since. Read them as a pattern rather than a deadline: file early in the session through the institution instead of waiting for an announcement the district offices do not appear to make.

Dates on the central side are firm and published. For academic year 2026-27 the National Scholarship Portal has been open since 1 June 2026, and each component closes on its own announced date (National Scholarship Portal).

Who can apply

Eligibility criteria

Residence in Chhattisgarh, a certificate reading 40% or more, and a place on the rolls as a regular student of a school, college or technical school are the whole test (District Jashpur, as archived). Nothing about marks, age or category enters it.

The 40% figure is not a departmental invention. Under the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act, 2016, a person with benchmark disability means a person with not less than forty per cent of a specified disability where that disability has not been defined in measurable terms, as certified by the certifying authority, and Section 57 of the same Act puts the power to issue a certificate of disability with authorities the appropriate government designates (Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act, 2016). What the district office reads is the percentage printed on that certificate. A hospital discharge summary or a treating doctor's letter is a different document and does not stand in for it.

Income is where the two official publications part company, and a family near the line should know that before it plans. Jashpur district, on a page its administration last updated in September 2026, sets an income condition of parents or guardians earning less than Rs 8000 per month (District Jashpur, archived). The department's own page, in Hindi, says the opposite for the lower classes: no income limit has been fixed for the pre-secondary level (Social Welfare Department). Both are government publications, but they are not equally current. The district page is live today; the departmental page survives only as a 2021 archive of a site that is now unreachable, so a district office applying the stricter figure has the more recent text on its side.

Plan on the Rs 8000 condition being asked about, carry an income certificate whatever your figure, and put the question to the district Panchayat and Social Welfare office for the session you are applying in. The binding text is the department's scheme order, and that office holds it.

Regular enrolment is the condition that quietly excludes the most people. A student on a correspondence or distance course, one whose name has come off the rolls for attendance, and one enrolled only to sit an examination are not regular students, and the head of the institution has to certify otherwise before the form moves at all.

Who cannot apply

Exclusions

Chhattisgarh has notified no disqualification list, so the eligibility conditions do that work: a non-resident, a certificate below the 40% mark and a student who is not on the rolls are refused on the test itself. Nothing in the state material bars a student who already holds another award, and nothing in it sets a limit on how many children in one household may draw the scholarship.

The central schemes are stricter on both points, and a household applying to both should know which rule sits where. The Department of Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities shuts its payment off from the day a holder takes up a second award of any kind, and it will not fund more than two children with disabilities in one family (DEPwD, Scheme of Scholarships for Students with Disabilities). Neither restriction has a counterpart in what Chhattisgarh publishes.

Continuation

Renewal conditions

The rate a student draws is fixed by class, not by any anniversary of the award, so what changes it is promotion across a band: out of Class 5 into Class 6, and out of Class 8 into Class 9. Chhattisgarh publishes no renewal form, no continuation clause and no procedure for carrying a sanction into a second year, and district pages that reproduce the scheme reproduce that silence too. A complete fresh file each session, routed the same way as the first, is the only course the published material supports.

Renewal is a defined stage in the central schemes by contrast, running with the course subject to conduct and attendance and turning on promotion to the next class, with a first failure at the post-matric level survivable (DEPwD guidelines). Reading that procedure across to the state scheme would be a mistake; none of it is published here.

What you get

Award & benefits

The rate is flat inside a band, and the type of disability does not move it. That is a real design difference from the central pre-matric scholarship, which pays a disability allowance on top of maintenance and sets it at Rs 4,000 a year for visual impairment and intellectual disabilities against Rs 2,000 a year for every other type (DEPwD guidelines). A student whose support costs are high draws the same Rs 190 here as one whose costs are not.

Two things the published material never says are how many months of a session are actually sanctioned, and whether the money arrives monthly or as a single credit at the end. A working bank account has to exist before sanction, since bank details are collected with the form, but the scheme record carries no direct benefit transfer tag and no disbursement calendar has been published for it. Ask the district office what the sanctioned period covers rather than assuming twelve payments.

• ₹150/- per month for the Students of 1st to 5th Standard
• ₹170/- per month for the Students of 6th to 8th Standard
• ₹190/- per month for the Students of 9th to 12th Standard

What to prepare

Documents required

The disability certificate decides the application, and its provenance matters as much as its existence. It has to be a certificate of disability issued by a designated certifying authority under the 2016 Act and it has to carry a percentage. Section 58 of that Act adds a protection worth knowing: a certificate issued under it is valid across the country (Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act, 2016). A family that moved to Chhattisgarh from another state does not need the disability reassessed, though it still has to satisfy the residence condition, about which a disability certificate says nothing.

This scheme's own document list does not name the issuing body. The same department does name one for its student housing scheme, where students must produce a residence certificate and a disability certificate from the district medical board (Social Welfare Department, student housing scheme). That is the department's own answer to the same question in a neighbouring scheme, which makes it the sensible thing to ask the district office to confirm before spending a day getting the wrong paper.

Nothing on this scheme's document list mentions a Unique Disability ID card. It is compulsory on the central side, where the guidelines require a UDID or a UDID enrolment, and the National Scholarship Portal separately requires a student with a disability to sign in to the UDID portal and consent to their UDID details being shared before the application can be submitted (National Scholarship Portal). A student headed for both should start that process early, since an enrolment number is accepted centrally while the card is still pending. A student applying only in Chhattisgarh should not delay this application waiting for one.

Step by step

How to apply

The application is offline, and it is routed rather than submitted. It goes in the prescribed departmental format to the head of the school, college or technical institution, who forwards it to the District Office, Panchayat and Social Welfare, or to the Janpad Panchayat office (Social Welfare Department). Handing the form in personally does not put it in the queue; the institution's forwarding is part of the application.

Getting hold of that prescribed format is the practical obstacle right now. District portals send applicants to the departmental website for the form and the current instructions (District Bilaspur), and Surguja and Korea instead publish a state online-application link (District Korea). Neither host answered a request when this page was checked. Until one of them comes back, the form has to come from the district Panchayat and Social Welfare office, the Janpad Panchayat office, or the institution, all of which hold printed copies.

Chhattisgarh's citizen services portal, Sewa Setu, adds a third answer. It lists Divyangjan Chhatrvritti Yojana under the Social Welfare Department and points its Apply button at the National Scholarship Portal (Sewa Setu service list), which is the central portal, not a state one. Treat the offline route the department publishes as the instruction and the Apply button as a signpost to a different set of schemes, and confirm at the district office before filing anything online in the belief that it reaches this scheme.

After the Form Leaves the Institution

An offline application generates no reference number, so no screen will ever report where the file has reached. The paper trail is what stands in for one. Ask the institution head for the date the file was forwarded and for the covering letter number, since that is the only evidence the application left the school, then follow it at the district Panchayat and Social Welfare office, which holds the power to accept or reject.

Sewa Setu's own Track Application screen is no help unless a reference number was generated through that portal, which an offline file does not produce; its support desk answers on sewasetu.helpline@cgchips.in all 7 days of the week, from 9:00 AM to 9:00 PM excluding national holidays (Sewa Setu, Track Application Status). Anything genuinely filed on the National Scholarship Portal is followed on that portal instead, which carries its own status and payment-tracking screens (National Scholarship Portal).

How winners are picked

Selection process

Accepting or rejecting the application is a district power, held by the District Office, Panchayat and Social Welfare or the Janpad Panchayat, and the department states it in those terms on its own scheme page (Social Welfare Department); Jashpur repeats it for its own district (District Jashpur). Nowhere in the state material is there a ranking rule, a cut-off or an interview stage, nor any ceiling on how many students a district may sanction, so on the published evidence what happens is a completeness and eligibility check rather than a contest.

That is not how the central scheme a reader may be applying to at the same time works. Slots there are fixed in advance, candidates are ranked, and the ranking is on the percentage of disability the certificate records, with the older candidate preferred where two tie (DEPwD guidelines). Clearing the eligibility bar there entitles nobody to an award.

Fine print

Terms & conditions

No separate terms document has been published, so what binds an applicant is what the procedure itself imposes. The head of the institution certifies that the student is on the rolls as a regular student, which keeps attendance and continued enrolment live all session rather than settled by one signature in the first week. The district office keeps the power to reject. The rate follows the class band, so it moves on promotion across a band and at no other time. The state material sets no condition on the school being government or private, and no condition on the type of disability, and reading either restriction into it would be reading something that is not there.

Where the published material genuinely does not answer a question, the department's scheme order held at the district Panchayat and Social Welfare office is the text that governs, and that office is where the question belongs.

Get help

Contact

The office that decides the application is the office to ask about it: the District Office, Panchayat and Social Welfare, or the Janpad Panchayat office for the block, approached through the head of the school or college that forwarded the file. Chhattisgarh publishes no scheme-specific helpline, email address or state-level desk for this scholarship, and with the departmental website unreachable there is currently no online contact route to the scheme owner either.

For anything routed through the state's citizen services portal, support answers at sewasetu.helpline@cgchips.in, and the portal publishes its address as the State Data Centre Building, opposite New Circuit House, Civil Lines, Raipur (Sewa Setu). A central scholarship is a separate line of enquiry altogether, answered by the National Scholarship Portal's own helpdesk rather than by anyone in Chhattisgarh (National Scholarship Portal).

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