Schemes for welfare of School Children belonging to BPL and BC(A) families: Monthly Stipend for BC-A Students(WSBCAS)

Overview

About WSBCAS

A BC-A child in a Haryana government school does not apply for this stipend on any portal. It reaches a bank account because a school teacher counted the child's attendance for the quarter and sent an advice to a bank branch, which is the whole mechanism the state set up in a single letter in 2009 and has run on ever since.

That letter, No. 3/41/2009-3 Edu. dated the 2nd of March 2009, is published by the Directorate of Secondary Education, Haryana and it is the document that decides who gets paid, how much, and when the payment stops.

Haryana runs this stipend as one scheme with two administrative halves. The Directorate of Elementary Education owns Classes 1 to 8 and the Directorate of Secondary Education owns Classes 9 to 12, and the state's DBT portal carries the two as separately onboarded schemes, one filed under each department (DBT Haryana scheme list). A parent chasing a missing payment needs to know which half their child sits in, because the office that answers is different.

The scheme was not written from scratch. Haryana had already been paying a monthly stipend to Scheduled Caste school children under an order dated 7 February 2008, and the 2009 letter extended the identical machinery, the same school bank accounts and the same officials, to children from Below Poverty Line and Backward Class-A families from the financial year 2009-10 onward. That inheritance explains most of the scheme's odd edges, including why there is no application form and no closing date.

Who runs it

Provider

At a glance

Key details

Calendar

Important dates

The scheme record carries an opening date and no closing date, which is accurate rather than an omission: this is a standing entitlement, not an annual competition with a window. The only calendar the department has ever published for it sits inside the 2009 letter, and it is a rollout schedule for the first year rather than a cycle that repeats.

What outlived the rollout is the rhythm rather than the dates: four instalments across the year, each released only after the school has checked the previous quarter's attendance. No fixed calendar date for those releases is published.

Who can apply

Eligibility criteria

The qualifying test is a category certificate, not an income slab. The 2009 letter's only additional instruction for BC-A children, over and above what it laid down for BPL children, is that a certificate of belonging to the BC (A) category issued by a competent authority must be obtained from the student before the account is opened. No income ceiling for BC-A applicants appears anywhere in the letter.

That matters because the BPL half of the same order works the other way round. BPL children were identified from the district-wise list of BPL families held at district headquarters and with the Gram Panchayats, so nobody had to produce anything. A BC-A family produces the certificate.

Enrolment is the second test and it is strict about where, not about marks. The child has to be on the rolls of a Haryana Government school.

Who cannot apply

Exclusions

One student, one stipend. The 2009 letter records that students shall be eligible only under one scheme, which settles the common household question of whether a child who is both BC-A and from a BPL family can draw two monthly amounts.

At the elementary level that rule costs such a family nothing, because the two schemes pay at the same rates. The Economic Survey of Haryana 2025-26 sets out the BPL and the BC-A stipends for Classes 1 to 8 in consecutive paragraphs and the slabs in the two are word for word the same.

The other bar is attendance, and it is applied retrospectively rather than at entry: a child whose attendance falls below the threshold in the quarter just finished does not get the next instalment released.

Continuation

Renewal conditions

There is nothing to renew and no renewal form. What exists instead is a quarterly test the school applies before each release. Under the 2009 letter, the school teacher has to see that money is not released for children whose attendance falls below 50 percent, and the next instalment goes out only if the student attended at least 50 percent of classes in the previous quarter.

The letter also carries a recovery clause that few state stipends bother with. If a child who had dropped out rejoins school and then attends at least 50 percent of classes over the subsequent 3 months, the previously due instalment is released along with the current quarter's, says the same order. A missed quarter is therefore a suspension, not a forfeiture, provided the child comes back and the attendance holds.

What you get

Award & benefits

The stipend is an annual entitlement paid in pieces. The Economic Survey of Haryana 2025-26 describes the elementary half as a monthly stipend given for 12 months and disbursed in 4 quarterly instalments, straight into a bank account. The rate rises with the class and is higher for girls throughout, and Classes 11 and 12 carry a separate higher rate for science students.

Those rates have not moved in the scheme's lifetime. The Economic Survey prints Rs 75 a month for a boy and Rs 150 for a girl in Classes 1 to 5 for 2025-26, which is the slab the 2009 letter fixed at the start.

What the department's own accounts show is the size of the thing.

The two rows are not counted the same way, and a reader should not average them. The elementary figures are the survey's own running total up to 31 October 2025; the senior row comes from the same survey's table of targets and achievements for 2025-26, which sets a target of 1,51,189 students against the 1,40,059 it shows as paid. Neither half had spent even a third of its budget provision.

• A. Admissible Monthly Stipend for BC(A) Girl Students: Class 1 to 5: ₹150/- per month
• Class 6 to 8: ₹200/- per month
• Class 9 to 12: ₹300/- per month
• Class 11 to 12 (Science Students only): ₹400/- per month
• A. Admissible Monthly Stipend for BC(A) Boy Students: Class 1 to 5: ₹75/- per month
• Class 6 to 8: ₹100/- per month
• Class 9 to 12: ₹150/- per month
• Class 11 to 12 (Science Students only): ₹200/- per month
• Mode of Disbursement: Direct transfer to students' bank accounts.
• Frequency of Disbursement: Expected Time of Disbursement: Funds to be transferred at the beginning of each quarter.
• Validity: Applicable for the duration of the academic session.
• Attendance criteria: Minimum 50% attendance required for next installment

What to prepare

Documents required

Only one document does real work here, and it is the BC (A) certificate from a competent authority. The rest is school-held or bank paperwork.

The bank paperwork was a one-time exercise at the start, and the letter is oddly specific about it. Officials authorised to operate the school accounts were told to collect account-opening forms from the banks in adequate numbers and have them filled in by the children and their parents before the due date, with the accounts opened in the name of the parent or guardian, preferably the mother.

That was the rollout instruction in 2009, and it is not how the scheme is described today: the myScheme record says an active bank account in the student's name is what the stipend needs. Where the two differ, do what the school in-charge asks for, because it is the school in-charge who sends the account details to the bank.

Step by step

How to apply

Application is offline and it happens at the school. There is no online form and no portal login for this stipend: the scheme's own record gives the mode as offline and leaves the application URL blank, and what the money follows is the school's enrolment register.

The account-opening drill described in the 2009 letter is worth knowing because it is the only enrolment procedure the state has published for the scheme. Since not more than 4-5 schools are attached to a single bank branch, the bank officer, the sarpanch of the village and the head teacher were to meet at the school on a fixed date and carry out the formalities together. The letter sets out no separate route for a child who joins the school later, which leaves the head teacher as the only door.

The same record publishes no tracking page, so following a payment works from the bottom up. The credit lands in the bank account, so the passbook or the account statement is the first and most reliable check. If it is empty, the question to put to the school in-charge is whether the advice for that quarter has gone to the bank, because under the letter it is the school in-charge who advises the bank to transfer the specified amount, on the basis of the enrolment and attendance of the children. If the advice went and the money did not, the escalation is the District Elementary Education Officer for a child in Classes 1 to 8 and the District Education Officer for Classes 9 to 12, the two officers the letter makes responsible for the school-wise demand.

How winners are picked

Selection process

There is no selection in the competitive sense. Nobody is ranked, no cut-off is published, and no committee sits. The school's own enrolment register produces the list, the attendance register decides who stays on it each quarter, and the District Education Officers and District Elementary Education Officers assess the school-wise requirement of funds separately for the BPL and the BC (A) schemes and send it up to the heads of department.

Fine print

Terms & conditions

The school account is a conduit and nothing else. The 2009 letter is explicit that money in a school account cannot be withdrawn by anyone and can only be transferred to students' accounts, which is why a stipend that is delayed is almost always stuck at the advice stage rather than diverted.

Two further conditions sit in the same letter. Funds are assessed and demanded school-wise and separately for the BPL and the BC (A) schemes, so the two never share a pot. And the officials who operate school accounts for senior secondary, high, elementary and primary schools remain the same as under the SC students scheme, meaning the person answering for a delayed BC-A instalment is the same person answering for the SC one.

Get help

Contact

For Classes 1 to 8, the office is the Directorate of Elementary Education, Plot No. 1-B, 1st Floor, Shiksha Sadan, Sector-5, Panchkula, phone 0172-2560453, per its contact page. For Classes 9 to 12 it is the Directorate of School Education at Plot No. 1/B, Shiksha Sadan, Sector-5, Panchkula-134109, phone 0172-2560269, per the Secondary Education contact page. The 2009 letter puts the District Education Officer and the District Elementary Education Officer between the school and the directorate, so a payment query is answered at the district office first and reaches Panchkula only if it is not.

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