Seemant Parvatiya Janpad Baal Vigyan Mahotsav(SPJBVM)

Both date fields on the myScheme record sit empty (myScheme scheme record), and the Meri Yojna entry describes the three tiers without attaching a month to any of them. The pattern has to be read off UCOST's own record instead: each of the last two editions ran for two days, late in the year, in a different border district.

Because the council posts each edition as it happens rather than opening a window on a portal, the announcement is the deadline. The Guptkashi edition is still the latest one carried on that feed (UCOST News and Events).

Eligibility turns on one question: where does the student study? A child enrolled in classes 6 to 12 in a government or non-government school in any of the six listed districts qualifies for the block round, and the guidelines add no second test (Meri Yojna, Government of Uttarakhand).

Nothing else is asked. The scheme entry sets no income ceiling, reserves no seats by category and fixes no minimum percentage, and it calls for no domicile certificate, so a child whose family moved to Bageshwar last year is measured by the school register they are on today.

The source publishes no exclusion list, and the eligibility rule does the excluding on its own: a student at a school outside the six districts, a child below class 6 or past class 12, and anyone not currently enrolled has no route in, because the block round reaches students through their schools.

There is nothing to renew. The guidelines describe one route that begins at block level, and they set out no continuing award, no renewal condition and no carry forward between editions, so nothing on record lets last year's state round finalist skip the block stage of the next Mahotsav.

What the scheme hands over is access. The stated benefit is a special opportunity for child scientists of the frontier hill districts to compete at state level, and to carry scientific activity into remote areas along the way (Meri Yojna, Government of Uttarakhand).

No prize amount, no number of awards and no tenure appears in the scheme entry or in the myScheme record. Any figure quoted elsewhere for this Mahotsav is unsourced until UCOST publishes one.

One honour at the fourth edition is worth separating out, because its name invites confusion. The Seemant Samman presented at Guptkashi went to Padma Shri Kalyan Singh Rawat, founder of the Maiti movement, and to Dr Siddharth Patni of the Seemant Seva Foundation, both honoured for their own work rather than placed in the student competition (UCOST, fourth edition).

The record carries one line on paperwork: documents are required as per the guidelines of the science competition. Nothing more specific is published, and the Meri Yojna entry carries no document column at all, so the binding list for any edition is whatever that year's organisers ask for. The people who would know are the district coordinators UCOST brings in from the participating districts to run the event (UCOST, fourth edition).

There is no application portal. myScheme records the application mode as Offline and lists no application URL for this scheme, so a student hunting for an online form will not find one (myScheme scheme record).

Entry begins at the block round, which is open to all students of classes 6 to 12 in the six districts, and the school is the way in. Students picked at block level go on to the district round, and each district sends its selection to the state round (Meri Yojna, Government of Uttarakhand).

Checking the Status of an Entry

A parent hunting for a status page will find that the Mahotsav never produces the thing a status page tracks. Recorded as non-DBT with an In Kind benefit and no application URL, it issues no application number and sends no money to a bank account, which leaves the National Scholarship Portal at scholarships.gov.in with nothing to display for it (myScheme scheme record).

What is published is the event. UCOST announces each edition on its own News and Events feed with the host district and the venue, and that feed is the practical place to watch for the next round and for who is coordinating it (UCOST News and Events).

Selection runs in three tiers and nothing more. The block round is open entry, students chosen there compete at district level, and students chosen by the district reach the state round (Meri Yojna, Government of Uttarakhand).

The guidelines publish no marking scheme, no judging panel and no per district quota, so the number a block sends upward is not fixed anywhere the state publishes.

The editions show scale instead of rule. The fourth, opened on 16 October 2025 at PM Shri Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya, Banasu Jakhdhar in Guptkashi, Rudraprayag, brought 238 child scientists to the state round, 90 boys and 148 girls, with district coordinators from the participating districts running the floor (UCOST, fourth edition).

The scheme entry carries no terms and conditions block. Two conditions do bind, and both come from the guidelines themselves: the student must be enrolled in classes 6 to 12 at a school in one of the six named districts, and the path to the state round runs through the block and district rounds in that order (Meri Yojna, Government of Uttarakhand).

UCOST is the nodal body, and its office is the address that answers on this scheme: Uttarakhand State Council for Science and Technology, Vigyan Dham, Vigyan Sadan Block, Dehradun 248007. The council lists ucost@ucost.in for general enquiries and +91 135 2976266 as its office line (UCOST contact page).

For the block round itself the school is the first stop, since entry is organised through schools and through the district coordinators who run each edition (UCOST, fourth edition).