Mukhya Mantri Balika Poshak Yojna(MMBPYBB)

The scheme record publishes neither an opening nor a closing date, and lists no application window (myScheme). The calendar that governs the money is the academic session instead, because the department's payment lists are held one session at a time (Payment status, MedhaSoft). Word of a payment run reaches a family through the school and the Block Education Officer's office rather than through an advertised deadline, so the date worth asking about is the date the school completed and verified its entry.

The test that decides this is the school, not the girl. Only government schools and government-aided schools may enter a student on the MedhaSoft e-Labharthi portal the department pays through, and the portal states plainly that students of private unaided schools may not be entered at all (MedhaSoft notice to schools, Education Department, Government of Bihar).

The second test is the bank account, and it is stricter than families expect. Money under the department's student schemes is released only into an account held by the student herself or by her father or her mother, and only where that account belongs to a bank branch located in Bihar. An account in a guardian's name is accepted only where neither parent is living, and then only for a guardian named at the school (MedhaSoft notice to schools).

The class is where the two records part company, so read the department's table rather than the launch note. The transfer table sets the poshak payment against girls in Classes IX to XII (Table 14.2, Bihar Economic Survey 2019-20), while the scheme record still describes Classes VI to VII (myScheme). The one thing a family can check for itself is the class the school has entered the girl under, because that entry, not the class in either description, is what the payment run reads.

The source publishes no exclusion list for this scheme, so what actually excludes a girl is whatever the payment system refuses. A student of a private unaided school cannot be entered. Nor can a girl whose family has given an account outside Bihar, or one in the name of somebody who is neither the student nor a living parent. Nor can she be entered against the school principal's mobile number: the portal asks for the number of the student or of one member of her family and rules the principal's number out (MedhaSoft notice to schools).

The quiet exclusion is a bank detail that fails verification. The portal publishes a Bank Account Rejected List of its own, and a name on it is not a rejected girl; it is an account the system could not use.

Nothing is renewed here and no renewal form exists. The entry belongs to an academic session, and the department keeps the payment record session by session, with separate lists for 2024-2025 and 2025-2026 (Payment status, MedhaSoft). A girl paid in one session is therefore not carried into the next by the fact of having been paid.

What repeats is the school's work rather than the family's: enter the class afresh, match the entry against the school's own records, correct what is wrong, and verify the class-wise list online so that account verification can run (MedhaSoft notice to schools).

Two official records describe this scheme, and they describe it differently. The table below sets them side by side, because a family comparing what it was told at school against what it read online is usually comparing these two.

The second row is the operative one for a family working out what to expect. The department's table carries a single rate for the whole band, Rs 1,500 a year, applied to all social categories alike, with no slab inside the band, no separate line for a hostel student and no top-up (Table 14.2, Bihar Economic Survey 2019-20). What a family can hold against that figure is its own record: the portal's payment list is searchable on a beneficiary ID or an account number for the session in question, which is the only place the credit against one girl's name can be read.

The form of the benefit changed with it. The scheme record still books the award as in kind, a pair of uniforms handed over at school (myScheme); the transfer table books it as money moving to an account. That is the practical difference between the two records, and it is the reason the rest of this page is about bank details rather than about distribution days.

Nothing is filed by the family at an office. The papers exist so that a school entry survives bank verification, and the department's own instruction sheet for the data-entry form shows what the school has to hold: the admission number and date, the student's name and both parents' names in English capitals, sex, ward or village, social category, date of birth as it stands in the admission record, minority and disability status, a twelve-digit Aadhaar number with the name as written on the Aadhaar card where it differs, and a declaration of whether annual family income exceeds Rs 1.5 lakh (Instruction for DBT Collection Form, MedhaSoft).

Two fields on that sheet decide whether the money lands. One is the bank block: the IFSC of a Bihar branch, the account number as it appears on the first page of the passbook, and a marker saying whose account it is, the student's, the mother's, the father's, or another person's only where the parents are not living. The other is a single mobile number belonging to the student or a family member, used for the SMS (Instruction for DBT Collection Form). A birth certificate or school admission certificate satisfies the school's own record (myScheme). A wrong IFSC does not fail at the school. It fails weeks later, silently, at the bank.

There is no student application, and the scheme record lists no application website of any kind, only an offline mode (myScheme). A government or government-aided school makes the entry itself on the MedhaSoft e-Labharthi portal, online or through the Block Education Officer's office, and the password for it comes from that office or is obtained online (MedhaSoft notice to schools). Once the entry exists, the school is expected to match it against its own records, correct any error, and verify the class-wise list online so that account verification can begin; the payment then moves to the student's bank account by direct benefit transfer through a centralised system.

Tracking it is the part families search for and rarely find, and the portal keeps it session by session. The current list is the payment status search for 2025-2026; the previous session's list stays open alongside it. Either one is read the same way: choose the district, then the school, then the class and section, or go straight to a beneficiary ID or account number, and the result can be exported to Excel. Open the list for the session in question before treating a blank result as a refusal.

When nothing shows, the same portal explains why. Its reports include a block-wise entry report, a school current status report and the Bank Account Rejected List, and it carries separate requests to verify a bank and IFSC code and to add missing bank details (MedhaSoft). Read in that order, the usual answers are that the school has not entered or verified the class yet, or that the account failed verification and has to be corrected through the request forms rather than at the bank counter.

There is no selection. Nobody is ranked, shortlisted or compared, and no merit list is published, because the payment follows enrolment in an eligible class. The only screening that operates is administrative, and the portal sets its sequence out for schools: the school verifies its own class-wise entry online, and only then can account verification run against the bank details it has recorded (MedhaSoft notice to schools).

The binding conditions here are the account rules, not paperwork, because the money is released centrally to whichever account the school has recorded. Payment goes only to the student's own account or to a living parent's, only to a branch inside Bihar, and to a school-named guardian only where neither parent is living. Entry belongs to the school alone, on the e-Labharthi portal, using a login held by the school or the Block Education Officer's office. Correction has to come before verification, because verification is what fixes the details the bank will be given (MedhaSoft notice to schools).

The class teacher and the head of school hold the entry, and the Block Education Officer's office holds the login that created it, so a correction to a name, a class or an account number is made there first (MedhaSoft notice to schools).

For a fault in the portal entry itself, the department runs a technical help desk for student detail entry for Classes 1 to 12. It answers on medhasofthelp@gmail.com, works Monday to Saturday between 10:00 AM and 6:00 PM, and lists two numbers, +91-9534547098 and +91-8986294256 (MedhaSoft help desk).