Rajiv Gandhi Scholarship Scheme(RGSS)

The scheme dates from the 2005-2006 session, per the EEE scheme document, and myScheme still lists it open with no closing date. That fits a scheme that takes no applications: the date that matters each year is the declaration of the previous class's results, after which schools identify their toppers. Haryana announces no separate scholarship calendar for this award.

The conditions all sit inside the school's own records: enrolment in a Haryana government school, a class between VI and XII, the first position in the preceding class, and a first division in that examination. The pairing is what trips students up. Standing first is not enough on its own, because the incentive goes only to a topper whose marks also reach a first division, as the scheme's myScheme record states.

Family income never enters the decision. The scheme's published material sets no income ceiling and asks for no income certificate, which separates it from almost every means-tested scholarship a Haryana school student will meet later.

The source material publishes no formal exclusion list, but the design draws its own boundaries. Students of private and aided schools sit outside the scheme because the award is confined to government schools, and only regular enrolment counts, which keeps evening-school and open-school students out, per the scheme's myScheme record. A class topper whose result falls short of a first division is excluded by the same rule that admits everyone else.

Nothing renews by default. The award is decided afresh every session, so a Class VII winner arrives in Class VIII with no carried entitlement and qualifies again only by topping the new class with another first division, per the myScheme record. In practice a consistently strong student can hold the scholarship from Class VI right through Class XII, one year at a time.

The amount is fixed by school stage, not by category, gender, or income.

Payment moves by direct benefit transfer into the student's bank account, per the myScheme record. Read the figure for what it is: a recognition amount that rewards a result, not a maintenance scholarship that covers fees, books, or hostel costs. Families budgeting for schooling expenses should treat it as a bonus, never as funding.

Because there is no application form, the papers matter at payment time rather than at entry. The previous year's marksheet is the record that certifies both the first rank and the first division, and the bank account details decide whether the transfer actually lands. The school compiles the file; a parent's practical job is making sure the school office holds the child's correct, active account number, since the transfer can only land in an account that actually works.

There is nothing to fill in. myScheme records the application mode as offline with no portal link, and selection runs off school records, so an eligible topper is picked up automatically, per the myScheme record. The scheme runs no online application cycle, which means there is no registration to complete on scholarships.gov.in and no NSP application ID to quote.

Tracking works the same offline way. The money either reaches the bank account or it has not, and when it has not, the route is the school head first and the Department of Education, Haryana after that, per the myScheme record. A passbook or statement entry showing the credit is the only receipt the scheme produces.

Selection is arithmetic, not discretion. The preceding class's results fix who stood first, the first-division condition filters that list, and one student from the boys' category plus one from the girls' category in each class of every school takes the award, per the department's EEE scheme document. No interview, no committee shortlist, and no separate merit list beyond the class result itself.

The scheme's published references carry no standalone terms document; the operative conditions are the eligibility test itself and the yearly re-qualification. The safeguard the department relies on is that both ends of the award leave a verifiable trail, the school's result records on one side and a bank transfer on the other, per the myScheme record.

The scheme publishes no helpline. Queries start with the school head, and unresolved ones go to the Directorate of School Education, Haryana, which hosts the scheme document on its official site.