Mukhyamantri Kishori Swasthya Yojna(MKSYBS)

Overview

About MKSYBS

Mukhyamantri Kishori Swasthya Yojna is the Bihar Education Department's yearly cash help for schoolgirls to buy sanitary napkins, paired with menstrual-health lessons in class. The Finance Department names it two ways in its own documents, the MM Sanitary Napkin Yojana in one and the Mukhyamantri Kishori Swasthya Karyakarm in the other, and both put the payment at Rs 300 a year (Economic Survey 2019-20; Bihar Gender Budget 2024-25).

It is money for girls who are in school. The State Health Society splits the state's menstrual-hygiene support in two: a girl who attends school receives a lump sum for napkins once a year through the Education Department, while a girl out of school is meant to buy napkins from an ASHA worker instead (State Health Society, Bihar). The school-going half is the one that matches this scheme.

Who runs it

Provider

At a glance

Key details

Calendar

Important dates

No date is published for the napkin money. The myScheme record leaves the open and close dates blank, and the three state descriptions of the scheme, the Economic Survey, the Gender Budget and the State Health Society page, name no month of payment; the last says only that the lump sum comes once a year.

Who can apply

Eligibility criteria

The myScheme record sets three conditions: residence in Bihar, being a girl, and enrolment in a recognised secondary school. The class band is where the official descriptions part ways, so it helps to see them side by side.

Read literally, myScheme's "recognised secondary school" is a narrower door than the Economic Survey's Class VIII to XII, and the Gender Budget draws the line by age rather than by class. The Survey's band is the only one printed beside the Rs 300 figure. If you have read that the scheme begins a class earlier than Class VIII, none of these four descriptions says so, and the headmaster can confirm whether your daughter's class is being entered this session.

Nobody is means-tested. The Survey's napkin row reads "All Categories" and sets no income limit, so neither a girl's caste category nor her family's income decides the Rs 300.

Who cannot apply

Exclusions

myScheme publishes no exclusion list, but two groups of girls fall outside the Rs 300 on the state's own descriptions. The first is girls who are not enrolled: the State Health Society routes them to ASHA workers, who are to supply sanitary napkins through social marketing at Rs 6 a packet, and keeps the yearly lump sum for school-going girls (State Health Society, Bihar). The second is girls at private unaided schools. The Economic Survey says the Education Department's transfers run through MedhaSoft (Economic Survey 2019-20), and MedhaSoft accepts student details from government and government-aided schools only (MedhaSoft, Education Department, Bihar), so a girl in Class X at a private unaided school has no entry for the napkin money to follow.

Continuation

Renewal conditions

No form is refilled from one year to the next. The State Health Society describes the napkin money as a lump sum paid once a year (State Health Society, Bihar), and the Economic Survey's band runs from Class VIII to XII, which reads as one payment for each of those years she spends in school. MedhaSoft's DBT collection form is filled against the current financial year (MedhaSoft DBT collection form), so each year's napkin payment rests on that year's school entry, not on the fact that she was paid the year before.

What you get

Award & benefits

The cash benefit is Rs 300 per girl per year, given for buying sanitary napkins (Bihar Gender Budget 2024-25). The myScheme record words it as free sanitary napkins and files it under the cash benefit type, while the Finance Department's Economic Survey places it in a table of direct benefit transfers to students (Economic Survey 2019-20): the family buys the napkins with money credited to a bank account.

The same Gender Budget entry adds the part that never reaches a bank account. Girls above 12 years of age enrolled in school receive reproductive health education, and teachers are trained to explain how napkins are used and disposed of.

• Free sanitary napkins for adolescent girls in secondary schools.

What to prepare

Documents required

The myScheme record asks for a birth certificate or school admission certificate. Everything else is keyed in by the school on MedhaSoft's DBT collection form (MedhaSoft instruction for student entry), and for a girls-only payment two of its fields deserve a look at home. One is sex, which the form records as male, female or transgender; the other is class, which must sit inside the Class VIII to XII band the Survey prints for this money. The same form carries her 12-digit Aadhaar number and the Bihar bank account the napkin money is meant to reach.

Step by step

How to apply

A girl does not apply for the napkin money. The myScheme record lists the application mode as offline, and in practice the claim is her school's MedhaSoft entry for the current financial year. What a parent can do is ask the class teacher three things: whether she is entered, whether she is recorded as female and in the right class, and whose account the school has on file.

Tracking the Payment

MedhaSoft publishes one payment-status page per session, 2024-2025 and 2025-2026 (session 2024-2025; session 2025-2026). It will not list a whole class: after the district, the school and the class are chosen, the page still asks for a beneficiary ID, and it answers "No Record Found" when the ID or account number does not match. Collect the girl's beneficiary ID from the school first, then search the session in which she sat in the class the napkin payment was due for.

If the search comes back empty, the portal's Bank Account Rejected List and its Verify Bank and IFSC Code tool show whether the account is what stopped the transfer (MedhaSoft). A corrected passbook page goes to the school, since the school, not the family, edits the entry.

How winners are picked

Selection process

Nobody is shortlisted for the Rs 300: no official description mentions a merit list, a lottery or a cap on numbers, and the Economic Survey's row covers girls of every category from Class VIII to XII (Economic Survey 2019-20). The only screening is administrative. MedhaSoft releases money after the school has verified its class-wise list online and the bank account has then cleared verification (MedhaSoft).

Fine print

Terms & conditions

Two terms attach to the Rs 300. Its purpose is sanitary napkins and hygiene, the use named by the Gender Budget 2024-25 and by the Bihar Vikas Mission (Bihar Vikas Mission). And it can be credited only to the girl herself, her mother or her father, through a bank branch located in Bihar; a guardian named at the school receives it only when a parent is not alive (MedhaSoft). For a Class VIII girl with no account of her own, that means her mother's or father's passbook.

Get help

Contact

The headmaster answers for the napkin money, since both the entry and any correction to it are made from the school's own MedhaSoft login. A girl who has left school should ask the local ASHA worker about napkins instead (State Health Society, Bihar). Faults in a MedhaSoft student entry go to the portal's technical desk at medhasofthelp@gmail.com, open Monday to Saturday from 10:00 AM to 6:00 PM (MedhaSoft help desk).

Source

Official links

Frequently asked questions

From the official scheme FAQ (myScheme)

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Disclaimer

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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