Schedule Tribe Pre-Metric Scholarship Class 06 To 08(STPMSC)

Overview

About STPMSC

The rate table behind this scholarship was not written for Scheduled Tribe students alone. The Directorate of Secondary Education at Bikaner prints one schedule of monthly rates for classes 6 to 8 and marks each line payable to Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe students together, which is why the benefit lines on this scheme's own record read as though they belong to the other category. The rate is Rs 75 a month for boys and Rs 125 a month for girls, for at most ten months of the school year (Department directions for pre and post matric schemes). What separates this route from every neighbouring pre-matric award on the same state portal is the money test: no rupee ceiling sits on family income here, only a bar on income tax payers.

This is a school education department scheme, filed and paid entirely inside the ShalaDarpan Beneficiary Scheme Portal, the window that now carries 35 of the department's schemes (ShalaDarpan Beneficiary Scheme Portal). The portal files it as Pre Matric Scholarship for ST Students (Class 6 to 8), and the card it keeps for that name counts 1,343,197 students and Rs 125 crore paid out. Neither figure is dated anywhere on the page, so both read as running totals rather than one session's result.

Two things about the award follow from how young its students are. It is a monthly rate rather than an annual grant, and the rate line is the whole of it: the directions print no books allowance and no ad hoc grant beside it, which the class 9 to 10 sheet in the same file does print (Department directions for pre and post matric schemes). The portal tags the scheme Day Scholar Only, so what is on offer is pocket money for a child who goes home from school, not a maintenance grant (Check Scheme Eligibility, ShalaDarpan).

The document that fixes the rate, the ten-month cap and the filing deadline is a set of directions for the year 2024-25, issued by the Directorate at Bikaner through its scholarship and incentive cell and signed by the deputy director who heads it. It is published on the portal as a single file carrying one sheet per pre-matric and post-matric scheme the department runs, and the sheet for classes 6 to 8 comes first in it (Department directions for pre and post matric schemes).

Who runs it

Provider

At a glance

Key details

Calendar

Important dates

The scheme runs on no fixed calendar. Each session the department opens the portal, sets a submit-and-lock date for schools, and extends it when uptake lags. The last two sessions show the shape of that plainly.

For a household the date that binds is not the portal's opening notice but whatever internal cut-off the school works to, since the entry has to be complete and correct before the scholarship incharge locks it.

Who can apply

Eligibility criteria

The category test is the whole of the first condition, and the sheet that carries it is headed for Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe students in classes 6 to 8 jointly. The portal then splits those two into separate scheme entries and files this one under ST only, so a child qualifies on the caste certificate and on nothing else in that clause (Department directions for pre and post matric schemes).

The academic bar is a pass, not a percentage. The portal states the condition for this scheme as a pass in the last class result with no marks threshold attached, so a child who moved up on a bare pass qualifies exactly as a topper does (Check Scheme Eligibility, ShalaDarpan).

The money test is a status rather than a number. Parents, or the guardian where the parents are not alive, must not be income tax payers, and the portal writes the rule for this scheme as no income range but not an income tax payee (Check Scheme Eligibility, ShalaDarpan). Nothing in the directions sets a rupee limit at this level, and that absence is the sharpest difference between this award and the ones a class above it.

Where the child studies is settled by two lists that do not entirely agree. The portal's eligibility filter accepts this scheme from secondary, elementary, model, Sanskrit, TAD and madarsa schools, and the elementary-school entry there is one the class 9 to 10 pre-matric routes on the same page do not carry (Check Scheme Eligibility, ShalaDarpan). The portal's how-to-apply table marks every one of those school types Govt. against this scheme (Schemes and how to apply, ShalaDarpan Beneficiary Scheme Portal), while the Bikaner directions extend the scholarship to department-recognised private schools as well. A private-school family is better off asking whether the school can actually open the entry than assuming the printed rule settles it.

One category of school had to be brought in by a separate instrument. Children studying in the Government Swami Vivekanand Model Schools run by the Rajasthan Secondary Education Council draw this scholarship under a 2014 state government order that the directions cite by number (Department directions for pre and post matric schemes).

Who cannot apply

Exclusions

No exclusion list is published against this scheme, and the directions supply three hard stops in place of one. A child already drawing a scholarship or a study allowance from any central, state or public source cannot hold this one alongside it. A child housed in a hostel that the Social Justice and Empowerment Department runs is barred, which is the same rule the portal expresses as the Day Scholar Only tag on the scheme. And a repeated class is a class already settled: the entitlement runs one year to one class, so a second year in class 7 carries nothing (Department directions for pre and post matric schemes).

Continuation

Renewal conditions

There is no renewal file to reopen, and the scheme's own record says so in its way: a student who fails and later clears the class has to apply afresh as a new applicant. Each session the school enters the child again inside that year's window, and because the entitlement is settled one class at a time, a year repeated for any reason is not paid twice (Department directions for pre and post matric schemes). Nothing carries over from one year to the next except the papers.

What you get

Award & benefits

Gender is the only thing that changes the figure, and the payment is a monthly rate for a capped number of months rather than a yearly grant.

The money reaches the family by direct benefit transfer into the bank account attached to Jan Aadhaar, and at this level that account may belong either to the student or to the head of the family (Check Scheme Eligibility, ShalaDarpan). From class 9 the portal narrows the same rule to the student's own account, so a family being paid into a parent's account has an account to open before the next stage arrives.

Set beside the two routes it is most often mistaken for, this one is the smallest award and the least conditional.

• For Schedule Caste Boy Students Rs. 75/- per month.
• For Schedule Caste Girl Students Rs. 125/- per month.

What to prepare

Documents required

The Bikaner sheet names four papers and no more: a caste certificate, an income certificate, Jan Aadhaar and Aadhaar (Department directions for pre and post matric schemes). The scheme's public record below runs longer, adding a birth certificate and the Jan Aadhaar-linked bank details, so the list worth assembling is the longer one and the directions are the floor rather than the ceiling.

The income certificate is the paper that puzzles families here, since no rupee figure is being tested at this level. What it establishes is the non-taxpayer status the scheme actually turns on, not a slab a household has to fall under.

Two of the four are gates rather than papers. Aadhaar and Jan Aadhaar authentication are compulsory under the scheme, and the portal's own help says an application cannot be submitted successfully without a Jan Aadhaar ID (Frequently asked questions, ShalaDarpan Beneficiary Scheme Portal). A name or a date of birth that disagrees between the school record and Jan Aadhaar has to be corrected at the Jan Aadhaar end before the school tries to file.

Step by step

How to apply

The scheme's public record gives the Rajasthan SSO portal as its application link. The department's own beneficiary portal lists the same scheme against a filer instead, the School Scholarship Incharge, a staff role signing in with a Shala Darpan school login rather than a student account (Schemes and how to apply, ShalaDarpan Beneficiary Scheme Portal). That puts the school at the centre of it, and the family's work all happens before the form does.

What a household controls is the input. The enrolment record has to show the child as a regular student of class 6, 7 or 8 in a school type the scheme covers, the caste certificate has to be in hand, and Jan Aadhaar has to carry a live bank account. The portal's Check Eligibility page settles the first question before anyone fills in anything, by class, category, gender and school type (Check Scheme Eligibility, ShalaDarpan). The school then uploads the required information and submits and locks the entry, and the directions state that deadline as an obligation of the institution head rather than as a student-facing date (Department directions for pre and post matric schemes).

Where the Application Stands After the School Locks It

No status page exists for a parent to open, because the file never sat in a student login to begin with. Three things can still be checked from outside. The how-to-apply table publishes a live status column, and while the scheme reads Active Now there the window for school filing has not shut (Schemes and how to apply, ShalaDarpan Beneficiary Scheme Portal). The school's scholarship incharge can see the state of the individual entry inside the portal, which nobody else can. And the payment itself arrives by direct benefit transfer into the Jan Aadhaar-linked account, so the passbook is what confirms it cleared. A credit that never landed has exactly one published route behind it, and it is a phone call and not a form: the portal's help pages send allotment questions to the departmental helpline (Frequently asked questions, ShalaDarpan Beneficiary Scheme Portal).

How winners are picked

Selection process

Nothing is ranked here. The directions publish no merit rule, no target number of awards and no district-wise quota, so every student who meets the conditions and whose entry survives office verification is paid (Department directions for pre and post matric schemes). Selection is therefore verification, and the only discretion in it belongs to the district office, which may reject an entry where a scheme rule has been broken (Frequently asked questions, ShalaDarpan Beneficiary Scheme Portal).

That verification runs on its own timetable after the school's deadline has passed. In the 2024-25 session the offices began verifying pre-matric and post-matric applications on 15 October 2024 and were given until 29 October 2024 to finish (ShalaDarpan Beneficiary Scheme Portal).

Fine print

Terms & conditions

Three conditions ride with the money. Aadhaar and Jan Aadhaar authentication are compulsory under the scheme, and the payment follows the bank account attached to Jan Aadhaar. The entitlement is one year to one class, so nothing is owed for a repeated year. And the district office holds a power of rejection after the school has filed, used where a scheme rule has been broken (Department directions for pre and post matric schemes; Frequently asked questions, ShalaDarpan Beneficiary Scheme Portal).

Rates and dates are reset by the department each session in a fresh set of directions rather than fixed in statute, so the sheet published on the portal for the running session is the binding version and an older year's figures are not.

Get help

Contact

Only two offices can see this application while it is moving, and a parent belongs to neither. The scholarship incharge holds the school login the entry was made from and is the only person who can say whether it was locked; the district office holds the verification and the power to reject, and is the stop after that (Frequently asked questions, ShalaDarpan Beneficiary Scheme Portal).

Past those two, the department answers on two landlines, 0141-2700872 and 0141-2706230, published for every scheme the portal carries (Contact page, ShalaDarpan Beneficiary Scheme Portal).

Source

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Frequently asked questions

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