Kasturba Gandhi Residential Girls’ Hostel(KGRGH)

The scheme carries no published opening or closing date. The pattern the department itself states is that applications are invited ahead of each academic session, with wide local publicity, so the working deadline for any family is the start of Uttarakhand's school year, not a fixed calendar date.

The frame is residence plus stage: a girl living in Uttarakhand, studying at the upper primary or secondary level. Inside that frame, the seat architecture does the sorting. The national KGBV norms, which Uttarakhand's scheme mirrors, reserve a minimum of 75% of seats for girls from SC, ST, OBC or minority communities, with priority for the remaining 25% going to girls from families below the poverty line. A girl from the general category is not shut out, but her route in runs through the BPL share rather than a community quota.

Uttarakhand then keeps two further doors open beside the quota grid: an annual family income ceiling for economically weaker households, set out in the scheme record, and a hardship route for girls who have lost one or both parents. A daughter of a widowed farm labourer in Pithoragarh may qualify through income even where her category alone would not seat her.

The quiet third test is distance. The document list asks for proof that home is more than 3 km from the school, which tells you what the hostel is for: girls whose daily walk, not whose marksheet, is the reason they would otherwise drop out.

Uttarakhand's record carries no exclusion list, and the hostel model barely needs one: the boundaries are drawn inside eligibility itself. The seats are for girls, resident in the state, at the Class 6 to 12 stages, and for nobody else.

No annual renewal procedure is published for the scheme. The model is continuity of residence rather than a yearly re-application: KGBV provision, as the Ministry of Education describes it, runs from Class VI through Class XII, and a girl admitted at the upper primary stage is meant to stay through the secondary stage rather than requalify each April.

The award is the seat itself: residence, meals and schooling at no cost, in a girls-only institution. Around that seat sit the girl-specific provisions Samagra Shiksha funds nationally, which the Ministry of Education has listed in Parliament: free uniforms and textbooks up to Class VIII, self-defence training from Classes VI to XII, and a stipend for girls with disabilities from Class I to Class XII. Uttarakhand's record puts no rupee figure on the package; the value is the difference between a girl staying in school and leaving it.

Because search results mix this scheme up with cash schemes, it is worth setting the three side by side.

If a page promises "KGBV scholarship money", it is almost always describing the third row, a different scheme with its own selection test.

The document list maps onto the entry routes rather than being one stack every family needs. The community quota leans on the caste certificate, the BPL quota on the ration card or BPL certificate, and the income door on the income certificate. Two items are less familiar and worth preparing early: the certificate showing the home-to-school distance exceeds 3 km, and, for a girl who has never been enrolled anywhere, an affidavit of never having attended school, which exists precisely because out-of-school girls are the population KGBVs were built to reach.

There is no form on a portal. myScheme records the application mode as offline and lists no application URL; the department invites applications before the academic session begins, announcing them locally rather than through a national window. In practice that means approaching the KGBV or the education office in your block when the session's admission round is publicised, with the documents for whichever entry route fits the family.

The tracking question has a blunt answer: because nothing is filed online, there is no NSP application ID and no payment status to watch. Nothing in the scheme's record points to a National Scholarship Portal listing, and no money is scheduled to arrive in a bank account, so the only follow-up that exists is with the school or hostel where the application was handed in.

No selection rule beyond the eligibility screen is published. The record describes girls from the target groups being identified and enrolled, which reads as administrative identification against the seat reservations rather than a merit ranking; the state publishes no cut-off, test or interview for these seats.

The source record publishes no separate terms beyond the eligibility conditions and seat reservations described above.

The nodal agency is the Secondary Education Department, Government of Uttarakhand, working under the state's Samagra Shiksha structure. The record publishes no helpline or email for the scheme, which fits its offline design: the block and district education offices that announce each admission round are the practical point of contact.