Saraswati Vidya Yojana: Reimbursement of Fees for Diploma/Graduation and Post-Graduation Professional Courses - DNH&DD(SVYRFDGPGPC)

Overview

About SVYRFDGPGPC

Saraswati Vidya Yojana in Dadra & Nagar Haveli and Daman & Diu is one scheme carrying two unrelated benefits, and a search for the name lands on either. Component I hands a free bicycle to class VIII girls in the UT's government schools. Component II reimburses tuition and academic fees for domicile girl students in Diploma, Graduation and Post-Graduation professional courses, and it is the one with an application, a deadline and a bank transfer attached.

Everything below is Component II, and it reaches a much smaller group than the scheme's name suggests. The applicant has to be a girl student; her father, husband, guardian or mother where the mother is a widow or divorced has to hold a domicile of the UT; she has to have done her school years in schools of the UT; she has to be among the first two daughters of the family; and she has to be enrolled in a Diploma, Graduation or Post-Graduation professional course. A boy has no claim under this component, and neither does a girl in a general degree outside the professional list. The UT Administration reissued both components together in a single revised notification in April 2026, in supersession of every earlier notification on the scheme (Saraswati Vidya Yojana notification, Directorate of Education).

The reimbursement runs a year in arrears, and that catches people out. Applications are invited for the immediate previous academic year only, so a student pays her college first, sits that year's examinations, and claims after the result is out. The window the Directorate of Education advertised in June 2026 took claims for the academic year 2025-26 (Advertisement of Saraswati Vidya Yojana, Directorate of Education).

Nothing is waived at the college counter. The file goes to a district scrutiny committee, the Administrator approves the list, and the money lands in the student's Aadhaar-seeded account by Direct Benefit Transfer.

Who runs it

Provider

At a glance

Key details

Calendar

Important dates

The scheme runs on two fixed windows a year rather than one long season, and the second exists for students who missed the first.

Those are standing dates in the notification rather than a fresh announcement each year, and the UT's own home page carried the same July closing date for the 2026 window (UT of Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu).

A student who does not apply in the June window can apply in the December one for the same academic year. The advertisement the Directorate issued in June 2026 also opened that window to girls who could not claim the previous academic year because their marksheets were issued after that year's last date, which is the closest the scheme comes to a relief clause (Advertisement of Saraswati Vidya Yojana).

Who can apply

Eligibility criteria

The notification sets five conditions on the applicant, and only one of them turns on how she performed in the year she is claiming for.

The domicile is the family's, not the girl's. The father, husband, guardian, or mother where she is a widow or divorced, has to be a domicile resident of the UT. Where the father is not alive and the girl lives as a dependent of a guardian, the guardian has to produce a dependent certificate from the Mamlatdar of the district.

The schooling has to have happened inside the UT. The notification asks for Std. 8th to Std. 12th in schools of the UT, and Std. 6th to Std. 10th where the girl took a diploma straight after SSC. A daughter of a UT domicile who did her school years in another state fails here, whatever the family's papers say. The portal turns that rule into the first question it asks, before it will accept anything else: whether the applicant has completed five continuous years of schooling in Daman, Dadra & Nagar Haveli or Diu (Saraswati Vidya Yojana application manual, Directorate of Education).

The result has to be clean on the first attempt. A fail or a backlog in any annual or semester examination of the year being claimed removes that year from the claim.

The family is capped as well as the student. Only the first two girl children of a family qualify, which is why the parent's declaration in the document list asks about the household rather than about the applicant.

The college is tested too, in two places most applicants read past. It has to be recognised by UGC, AICTE, MCI, DCI, PCI, NCERT, NCTE or the Nursing Council of India, and its fees have to have been approved by the fee fixation committee of the state or UT that regulates it. That second condition is written for a college outside the UT: the notification asks for the fee fixation order issued by the concerned state or UT, and nothing in the eligibility list requires the college itself to sit in Dadra & Nagar Haveli or Daman & Diu.

Who cannot apply

Exclusions

The bar that ends most claims is the first-attempt one, and its wording matters. The notification bars a girl who has failed or is carrying a backlog in the first attempt of an examination of the claiming academic year. Clearing the paper later in a supplementary attempt does not put that year back into the claim. Because the bar is written against the claiming academic year, a year lost this way does not by itself close off the next year's application.

A course studied by correspondence or in distance mode falls outside the scheme whatever the college. So is running two courses at the same time, which quietly rules out the student stacking a second degree alongside her professional course.

Not every roof over a student's head counts as hostel accommodation here. A college hostel counts, and so does a registered students' or youth hostel. A paying guest arrangement or a shared flat does not, however genuine the rent receipt.

Continuation

Renewal conditions

Each academic year stands on its own application, filed after that year has finished. There is no continuing sanction to keep alive, no renewal form, and no annual re-verification of an existing award, so the domicile certificate, the schooling certificate and the fresh declarations are filed again every time. A year the student cannot claim, because of a backlog or a missed window, simply drops out of the sequence without affecting the years around it.

What you get

Award & benefits

Income decides what fraction of the fee comes back, and the course decides how much of it the UT will pay in a year at most. Tuition and academic fees are met in full where the parental or husband's income sits below the line the notification draws and at half where it sits above, and whichever rate applies, the reimbursable amount is then capped at an annual ceiling that is lower for Diploma and Graduate courses than for Post-Graduate ones, with a higher ceiling again where the academic session runs a year and a half rather than a year (Saraswati Vidya Yojana notification, Directorate of Education).

That income line has moved, so a family's memory of it is worth checking against the current order. The Directorate's own application form for the academic year 2023-24 still drew it at a parental income of Rs 1.50 lakh, full reimbursement below and half above (Saraswati Vidya Yojana application form, Directorate of Education), and the same figure governed the form the Directorate published for 2019-20 (Advertisement and application form, Directorate of Education). The revised notification replaced that figure. It is the document that prints the current income line, the annual ceilings for each course level and the hostel cap, and the UT publishes it only as a scanned order, so the figures have to be read off the notification itself rather than off an older advertisement (Saraswati Vidya Yojana notification, Directorate of Education).

What counts as fee is narrower than the college bill. Capitation, infrastructure and development charges are struck out before the calculation runs, so the reimbursable figure is the tuition and academic fee alone.

The hostel allowance sits over and above the course ceiling rather than inside it, and it is paid as a share of hostel charges with mess charges taken out. Where a receipt runs hostel and mess together without splitting them, the department splits the receipt itself rather than rejecting it.

One deduction surprises people. Any scholarship or monetary benefit the same student draws for the same academic year under another UT or Government of India scheme, post-matric scholarships included, is subtracted before this scheme pays. The declaration the student signs is where that disclosure is captured.

• Full Reimbursement for Low Income: 100% of tuition and academic fees will be reimbursed to girl students whose parental or husband's income is below ₹2,50,000/-.
• Partial Reimbursement for Higher Income: 50% of tuition and academic fees will be reimbursed to girl students whose parental or husband's income is above ₹2,50,000/-.
• Maximum Reimbursement Limits: For diploma and undergraduate professional courses, the maximum reimbursement is ₹2,50,000/- per year.
• For postgraduate professional courses, the maximum reimbursement is ₹3,50,000/- per year.
• Extended Reimbursement for 1.5-Year Courses: For graduate professional courses with a 1.5-year academic session, the maximum reimbursement is ₹3,75,000/- per academic year.
• For postgraduate professional courses with a 1.5-year academic session, the maximum reimbursement is ₹5,25,000/- lakh per academic year.
• Additional Hostel Allowance: An additional allowance covering 50% of hostel charges (excluding mess charges), capped at ₹30,000/- per year, will be provided. This allowance is in addition to the maximum reimbursement limits specified above.
• Note: The accommodation fees of the students staying as paying Guest or in a flat system shall not be reimbursed.
• While calculating Tuition and Academic Fees, the fees such as Capitation Fee, Infrastructure Fee and Development Fee will not be considered.
• In case the Hostel Charges are inclusive of Mess Charges and the same is not mentioned separately in Fee Receipt, the Hostel Charges will be considered as 50% of the total amount of the aforesaid fee receipt.
• In case the beneficiary is entitled to avail scholarship/ monetary benefit for the respective Academic Year under any other schemes of the U.T./ Govt. of India (Including Post matric scholarship) ,such amount shall be deducted from the benefit amount of this scheme and accordingly the scholarship amount shall be disbursed under the scheme.

What to prepare

Documents required

The paperwork is unusual in that most of it is issued by somebody other than the student or her college.

The domicile certificate and, where the full rate is claimed, the income certificate both come from the Mamlatdar of the district. An income certificate is only needed for the higher rate, so a student claiming the partial rate is not blocked by one.

The fee fixation order is the item people cannot find, because it is not a college document at all. It is the order issued by the state or UT government that fixed the fees of that institution, and the college office or the regulator's site is where to ask for it.

The schooling certificate has to say the class span in terms, not just confirm attendance, because the eligibility rule is written as a span. Fee receipts have to be the originals. The bank passbook has to be Aadhaar seeded, since payment runs through DBT and a mismatched account stops it.

Two declarations close the file: one from the student that she has claimed under no other scheme for that year, or disclosing what she did claim, and one from the parent or guardian that no more than two girl children of the family have taken the benefit.

Step by step

How to apply

Applications are online only, through the UT's own scheme portal at svy.ddd.gov.in, and there is no offline route in the notification.

The portal settles eligibility before it asks for anything else. Its opening screen asks whether the applicant is a girl and whether she has the five continuous years of UT schooling behind her, and a negative answer to either ends the application there. Aadhaar verification by OTP comes next and fills in her name, date of birth and address by itself, and an email OTP follows that both verifies the address and sends her a link she can use to reopen a half-finished form later (Saraswati Vidya Yojana application manual, Directorate of Education).

The college is picked from a list rather than typed, and selecting it pulls the institution's details in automatically; a college missing from that list has to be added by the applicant, with its AISHE code and contact details, before she can go further. Fee receipts are entered one by one, with room for as many as she holds. Two annexures have to be downloaded from the portal or from the email it sends, printed, signed and stamped by the college, scanned and uploaded before the form can be previewed. Submission is final: the form cannot be edited afterwards, and a PDF copy of it reaches her registered email (Saraswati Vidya Yojana application manual, Directorate of Education).

The application link is live only while a window is. Between windows the application link returns an expired-link notice rather than a form, which is what it was showing in early September 2026, so a student arriving outside the window has nothing to fill and no queue to join.

To follow a submitted claim, the same portal carries a track application page that returns the status of one application against its application number, which is issued when the form is submitted (Saraswati Vidya Yojana application manual, Directorate of Education). Keep that number: it is the only public handle on the file, and it is what the district education office will ask for. A helpdesk number and an email address for the Directorate of Education at Shiksha Sadan, Daman are printed at the head of every page of the portal.

An incomplete application, or one submitted after the window has closed, is not considered. There is no late acceptance and no correction window written into the scheme.

How winners are picked

Selection process

This is an eligibility test, not a competition. No merit list is drawn, no rank decides who gets paid, and the notification fixes no cap on the number of girls who may be reimbursed in a year.

Each district runs its own scrutiny committee, chaired by the District Education Officer (Admin), with the Education Officer (Academic), an assistant, an accountant and the upper and lower division clerks who handle the scheme sitting on it. The committee reads each application against the criteria and can go further: the notification allows a spot visit or physical verification of the college or the hostel where it thinks one is needed, and requires the committee to satisfy itself that the college holds the government recognition or affiliation it claims.

The committee's minutes go up for approval, the Hon'ble Administrator of the UT approves the disbursement, and DBT follows. The whole procedure is meant to close within one month of the window shutting.

Fine print

Terms & conditions

Forgery of a document, a false declaration, or drawing more than one benefit at a time carries a penalty clause: recovery of the money, legal action, or both. The two declarations in the document list are what that clause bites on.

There is a discretionary route, and it is small and explicit. The Secretary (Education) may recommend up to ten cases in a year that do not meet the eligibility criteria to a committee of the Advisor to the Administrator, the Secretary (Higher Education) and the Secretary (Education), which decides whether the benefit is given. It is a named exception rather than an appeal anyone can file.

Above the district committees sits a monitoring committee chaired by the Director of Education, with the chief executive officers of the district panchayats, the chief officers of the municipalities, the two assistant directors of education and the district education officers on it. Implementation questions belong there rather than with the scrutiny committee that read the file.

Get help

Contact

Grievances go to the district office, not to the portal. The notification names the District Education Office at Lekha Bhavan, Amli, Silvassa for Dadra & Nagar Haveli, the Education Office at Shiksha Sadan, Moti Daman for Daman, and the Education Department at the Collectorate, Diu for Diu, each with its own telephone number. The Directorate of Education at Daman owns the scheme across all three districts and is where the advertisement, the notification and the portal all originate.

Source

Official links

Frequently asked questions

From the official scheme FAQ (myScheme)

Read this

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.

Explore more

Related scholarships

References

Sources