Jai Bhim Mukhyamantri Pratibha Vikas Yojana(JBMPVY)

Overview

About JBMPVY

The Jai Bhim Mukhyamantri Pratibha Vikas Yojana is the Delhi Government's paid-coaching scheme. Under the January 2018 order that set it up, the Department for the Welfare of SC/ST/OBC pays a private coaching institute's fee for a Delhi student preparing for a competitive examination, up to a fixed ceiling per course, and adds a monthly stipend of Rs 2,500 while the classes run. Both the fee grant and the stipend are released to the institute, so what the student receives is a seat in a batch and a monthly payment from the institute rather than a lump sum.

Who the scheme is for changed within two years of its launch. Cabinet Decision No. 2526 of 12 December 2017 approved it for Scheduled Caste students alone, with a family income ceiling of Rs 6 lakh, as the January 2018 order shows, and the myScheme listing still carries that first version. The Delhi Planning Department's 2020-21 chapter on the welfare of SC/ST/OBC records that Cabinet Decision No. 2741 of 3 September 2019 extended the scheme to ST, OBC and EWS students, and it states the widened test as Delhi residence, Class 10 and Class 12 passed from a Delhi school, and a family income of not more than Rs 8 lakh a year.

The examination list grew at the same time. The same chapter adds the NDA and CDS entrances and Group C recruitment exams that ask only for Class 10 or Class 12, alongside the civil services, judicial services and professional entrances of 2017. Delhi's Economic Survey 2022-23 records the scale: coaching for 15,000 students was proposed for 2021-22, and 13,295 students were enrolled in coaching during that financial year.

Whether an intake is running now is a separate question from what the rules say. The department's Services and Schemes page currently lists nine welfare schemes, four centrally sponsored and five of its own, all of them scholarships, fee refunds or study grants, and the coaching scheme is not among them. No official notice of a later intake has been found, and no official document declares the scheme closed either, so the rules below are the ones the founding order and the Planning Department chapter record.

Who runs it

Provider

At a glance

Key details

Calendar

Important dates

The scheme's documents set no fixed annual calendar. An intake opens with a newspaper advertisement from the department, and the dated milestones in those documents are these:

Who can apply

Eligibility criteria

Which test applies depends on which record a student reads. The myScheme listing printed below reproduces the 2018 order: SC students only, family income up to Rs 6 lakh. The 2020-21 planning chapter records the 2019 decision that widened both lines, to SC, ST, OBC and EWS students resident in Delhi whose family income is not more than Rs 8 lakh a year.

Schooling is the condition to check first, because it looks backwards rather than at where a family lives today: Class 10 and Class 12 must both come from schools in Delhi. The January 2018 order also admitted a student still studying in Class 12, while the Planning Department chapter and the department's later public notice inviting applications word it as both classes passed. That notice adds one more test alongside residence, category and income: the student must already meet the eligibility conditions of the specific examination being prepared for, and the student enrolment form puts that question to the student as a yes-or-no box.

School type also matters. The January 2018 order fixes the ratio of students coached at 75:25 between those who studied in government schools and those from private schools, so private-school applicants compete for a quarter of the places.

Who cannot apply

Exclusions

The scheme publishes no exclusion list, so every disqualifier comes out of its conditions. In practice four things end an application:

• a Class 10 or Class 12 certificate from a school outside Delhi, even for a family that has since moved to the city;
• caste, category or income certificates issued outside Delhi, because the student enrolment form asks for certificates from the office of the concerned District Magistrate of GNCT of Delhi;
• a third attempt at the benefit for the same examination, which the form checks by asking for the year, institute and course of any earlier enrolment;
• more than 15 days of absence without a valid reason, after which the January 2018 order gives the seat to another student.

Continuation

Renewal conditions

Nothing is renewed year to year, because the benefit attaches to one coaching course rather than to an academic session. What the January 2018 order limits instead is repetition: a student may draw the benefit for a particular competitive examination no more than twice, however many attempts that examination allows, and on the second round the government pays only 50% of the admissible fee. The institute takes a written undertaking that the student has not already used it twice.

Two-stage examinations are treated generously. Preliminary and Main coaching are both covered, taken whenever the student chooses, and there is no cap on interview coaching for a candidate who is called for interview. The 2020-21 planning chapter carries these rules unchanged into the widened scheme.

What you get

Award & benefits

The award has two parts: a coaching fee paid to the institute, up to a ceiling, and a stipend of Rs 2,500 a month to the student. The January 2018 order sets the ceiling at Rs 40,000 per candidate for each stage of the civil services and for engineering, medical, MBA and other professional entrances, and at Rs 30,000 for the other Group A and B examinations of the UPSC and the state public service commissions, the Group B examinations of the SSC, and officer-grade recruitment in banks, LIC, GICs and PSUs. Those ceilings include both the government's share and any share the student pays. The same order lets the institute-selection committee reset fees and course durations each year after market feedback, so a later intake can carry different figures.

Who pays the ceiling depends on family income and on which version of the scheme applied:

The stipend is for local students attending classes. The department's later public notice says it is paid straight into the student's bank account for the length of the course, and it adds a route the first order lacked: a student who picks a coaching centre outside the empanelled list can have the fee reimbursed, within the scheme's limits.

The Planning Department's figures show what was actually spent. The 2020-21 planning chapter records spending of Rs 1465.01 lakh in 2018-19 against a revised estimate of Rs 2,400 lakh, and Rs 905.92 lakh in 2019-20 against a revised estimate of Rs 1,700 lakh, before an outlay of Rs 10,000 lakh for 2020-21.

• A monthly stipend of ₹2500/- per student will be paid for local students for attending the coaching classes.
• Under the scheme, 75% of the admissible coaching fee amount is to be provided by the Government and the remaining 25% is to be borne by the students.
• In case of students having a total family income of up to ₹2.00 lacs, a full admissible coaching fee is to be provided by the Govt.
• Note 01: The institute would have to pay a stipend to each student on a monthly basis through PFMS/ ECS or cheque. Cash payment would not be allowed.
• Note 02: Benefits under the scheme can be availed by a particular student not more than twice, irrespective of the number of chances; he/she may be entitled to in a particular competitive examination. However, only 50 % of the admissible coaching fee is to be provided by the Govt. for students who avail of 2nd time coaching facility under the scheme. The coaching institution will also be required to take an undertaking from the students that they have not taken benefit more than twice under the scheme.

What to prepare

Documents required

The myScheme document list is the floor; the department's student enrolment form asks for more than it shows. Every copy is self-attested, and the form wants a graduation certificate where the student has one, proof of any course currently being studied, and the first page of the bank passbook, with the bank's IFSC and MICR codes written in for the stipend transfer.

One line on the form saves an EWS applicant a trip to the revenue office: no separate income certificate is needed from an EWS student, whose EWS certificate the public notice lists as the alternative to the caste and income pair. At an empanelled centre, the institute checks every copy against the original and signs a verification section on the form before it enrols the student.

Step by step

How to apply

The department's own documents describe only paper applications. Its public notice sets out two routes, and which one applies depends on where the student wants to study.

1. At an empanelled institute. Apply to the institute directly on the prescribed enrolment form. The institute enrols students who meet the conditions while seats last, and it must send the department the full list of admitted students within seven days of the course starting.
2. At a centre that is not empanelled. Fill the same form, naming the coaching centre, and send it in an envelope marked in bold "Application for coaching under Jai Bhim Mukhyamantri Pratibha Vikas Yojna" to the Deputy Director (Implementation) at the department in Vikas Bhawan, on any working day within 30 days of the department's newspaper advertisement. The department scrutinises the applications and allows eligible students to join the centre of their choice, subject to seats.

Seats are shared out in advance. The department's letter to empanelled institutes, circulated by Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University in December 2021, distributes a course's seats notionally among institutes, moves unfilled seats towards the institutes students prefer, and reserves the department's right to allot students when one institute is oversubscribed and to add seats where demand calls for them. An institute may also gather names its own way before the paper form: the same GGSIPU circular carried one empanelled institute's online registration link for a batch of 100 students preparing for the Indian Engineering Services examination and GATE.

Where an Enrolment Shows Up, and When the Stipend Lands

The scheme's documents name no portal and no application number to look up. Status moves through three paper checkpoints instead. At an empanelled centre, the student's name must appear on the list the institute sends the department, which the department's letter to institutes wants within seven days of the programme starting, in hard and soft copy along with scanned application forms. On the non-empanelled route, the public notice says the department will tell selected students of their selection in due course. The stipend then arrives monthly in the account given in the bank-details section of the enrolment form, and the January 2018 order makes the institute responsible for paying it through PFMS, ECS or cheque.

How winners are picked

Selection process

At an empanelled centre the coaching institute, not the department, picks the students. Under the January 2018 order an institute applies its own academic criteria or entrance test, may relax them for SC candidates, and falls back on marks in the qualifying examination when it has fixed no criteria. The department can also nominate needy students for coaching directly.

For the non-empanelled route the department makes the choice itself: if applications in a category outnumber the seats, the public notice ranks students on their percentage in Class 10 and Class 12.

The institutes are selected too. Under the January 2018 order, a committee chaired by the Principal Secretary or Secretary (SC/ST) empanels them for three years after field inspection, and continued funding rests on how the students they coach perform in the examinations.

Fine print

Terms & conditions

Most of the scheme's conditions bind the institute rather than the student, and they explain why a centre may be strict about paperwork. The January 2018 order requires the institute to keep the grant in a separate account and use it only for the scheme, or refund it with 18% penal interest. It must file a utilisation certificate and chartered-accountant-audited accounts within a month of a course ending, submit a course-wise list of candidates with their addresses and phone numbers at the start, and report their examination results at the end of the financial year.

The institute must also certify that it has taken no other grant for the same purpose from any central, state or other government or non-government body, so the same batch cannot be billed to this scheme and to another coaching grant. Stipend payments cannot be made in cash. The department may stop funding an institute whose performance is unsatisfactory, and it can make slight changes to the scheme's modalities with the prior approval of the Minister in charge.

Get help

Contact

The right desk depends on the route. A seat at an empanelled centre is the institute's business first, since it verifies the documents and files the enrolment list. A paper application for a centre outside the list is handed in to the Deputy Director (Implementation) of the coaching scheme at Vikas Bhawan, B-Block, 2nd Floor, IP Estate, New Delhi-110002. For anything the institute cannot settle, 011-23379512 is the one telephone line the department's website gives.

Source

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Frequently asked questions

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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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