"SUPER 30" Scheme(S30)

The Directorate has never fixed a calendar month for the scheme. It has run the test in September, in June and in April across cycles, and the one stable rule is that the test is tied to the Class 10 board year rather than to a date.

Because the window has closed as early as March and as late as September, the safe habit is to watch the Directorate's notice board from the start of the Class 10 board year rather than to wait for a month.

Family income is the one condition where the scheme's own paperwork disagrees with the national directory that lists it. Every notification the Directorate has issued for the scheme, and the registration portal for the latest cycle, sets the bar at family income below Rs 8 lakh a year (notification No. F.13(5-37)-SE/GL-/2020(L-II), tripurasuper30.com). The myScheme entry for the scheme still carries an income line of Rs 1,00,000, an eighth of the notified figure (myScheme), so the Directorate's notification for the cycle in hand is the document that binds.

The academic bar sits before the board result, not after it. The 2023 notification asked for a pass in the Class X pre-board or pre-test with 50% marks from a government or government-aided school of Tripura, together with appearance in that year's Class X board final (notification No. F.13(5-37)-SE/GL-/2020(L-II)). For the 2026 cycle the portal moved the qualifying exam a year earlier still: a pass in Class IX in 2024-25 with 50% marks, plus appearance in the Class X board final from a government or government-aided school situated in Tripura, with Kendriya Vidyalayas, Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalayas and Eklavya Model Residential Schools counted in (tripurasuper30.com). Residency is enforced through that school list as much as through the PRTC produced at counselling, so a student at a private unaided school in Agartala falls outside the scheme however good the marks.

Caste is not a filter on entry, though the myScheme record reads as though it were, listing Scheduled Tribe, Scheduled Caste or Person with Disability community membership among the eligibility conditions (myScheme). The Directorate's own conditionalities carry no such clause. The 2023 notification applies existing State Reservation Norms to the merit list and reserves one seat for a Divyang candidate, and it lists an SC, ST or PH certificate among the counselling documents with the qualifier "if any" (notification No. F.13(5-37)-SE/GL-/2020(L-II)).

The Directorate has never published a disqualification list for the scheme, and the myScheme record leaves that field blank. What the notifications rule out by construction is narrower and worth knowing: coaching taken inside Tripura is not funded, because the grant is written for an institute outside the state; the qualifying cohort is fixed per cycle and a student outside it has no route in, whether that cohort is the TBSE Madhyamik 2021 pass-out list (advertisement and notification No. F.13(5-37)-SE/GL-I/2020(L)) or the students appearing in the Class X board final of 2026 (tripurasuper30.com); and the government or government-aided school condition shuts out the private unaided sector.

Nothing in the scheme asks a selected student to reapply. The award runs for the full two-year coaching programme, and the accommodation component carries a built-in escalation of 5% in the second year (notification No. F.13(5-37)-SE/GL-/2020(L-II)). No published order sets a Class 11 score, an attendance floor or any other test the student has to clear for the second year's money to be released.

The two caps are ceilings on what the state will pay, not a lump sum handed over. A student who picks an institute charging more than the cap, or a hostel dearer than the accommodation line, meets the difference from home.

The notification prints both caps in a single sentence with "per annum" attached to the accommodation figure, so a family budgeting for Kota should confirm with the Super 30 Cell whether the coaching cap runs each year or across the two (notification No. F.13(5-37)-SE/GL-/2020(L-II)). There is no stipend, no travel allowance and no book grant alongside those two lines.

Two document rules trip candidates up. The first is that the Class 10 board marksheet is a threshold and not just a proof: the notification asks for a marksheet showing 60% and above, in original, at counselling (notification No. F.13(5-37)-SE/GL-/2020(L-II)). A student can clear the selection test and still fall out at that step.

The second is the income certificate, which has to come from the Sub-Divisional Magistrate or the Deputy Commissioner of Magistrate and is produced in original. When the Directorate relaxed the 2021 cycle it allowed the certificate to be submitted after the selection process closed rather than with the form (relaxation notification No. F.13(5-37)-SE/GL-I/2020(M)/VOL-I), so the sequence is worth confirming for the cycle in hand. On the online form itself, the uploaded photograph and signature each have to be under 100 kb (tripurasuper30.com).

Applications run on the scheme's own portal, tripurasuper30.com, and not on the National Scholarship Portal. Registration starts from a mobile number: enter the number with the captcha, receive a one-time password on it, validate the number and set a password, then log in, fill the registration page and print the completed application (tripurasuper30.com). The printout is itself a counselling document, so it should not be closed unprinted.

That login is also the tracking route. There is no separate status page and no application number to quote: the login form takes the same mobile number and the password set at registration, and the portal is where the selection test admit card is released for download in a window the Directorate announces on the same instructions panel (tripurasuper30.com). Payment status is a different matter and the portal does not show it. The money is released as a departmental expenditure sanction against the year's budget, drawn by the Directorate's own drawing and disbursing officer and paid to the selected students through the online payment system (expenditure sanction memo No. F.8(2-23)-SE/PLAN/2020), and myScheme records the scheme as outside the Direct Benefit Transfer route (myScheme). Those sanction memos are published on the Directorate's own site, which is the only public place a family can see whether the year's money has actually been released.

The online route is recent. In the 2021 cycle the Directorate took applications on paper at the District Education Offices, on a printed format that asked for the Madhyamik admit card number and attested marksheet copies (advertisement and notification No. F.13(5-37)-SE/GL-I/2020(L)).

Selection is a written test first and a counselling call second. The Joint Selection Test is set on the TBSE Class 10 standard syllabus in Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics and Biology, asked as multiple-choice questions and answered on an OMR sheet (relaxation notification No. F.13(5-37)-SE/GL-I/2020(M)/VOL-I). Candidates sit it at a centre named on the admit card, which the head of the school attests before the exam.

The merit list from that test drives everything after it. Students are called to counselling in rank order through the heads of the schools they appeared from, and the state's reservation norms are applied at that stage, with one seat held for a Divyang candidate (notification No. F.13(5-37)-SE/GL-/2020(L-II)). Rank also decides choice of institute in practice, since the pick is made during counselling.

The marks bar has been the softest part of the process. The 2021 cycle opened at a cut-off of 70% in Madhyamik (advertisement and notification No. F.13(5-37)-SE/GL-I/2020(L)), and the Directorate reduced it to 60% while the window was still open (relaxation notification No. F.13(5-37)-SE/GL-I/2020(M)/VOL-I). By 2026 the entry test was open on 50% in Class IX instead (tripurasuper30.com).

Two conditions bind the choice of institute: it has to be nationally reputed, and it has to be outside Tripura. The Directorate does not publish an approved list, and the 2021-22 sanction records Allen Career Institute at Kota as an institute students had joined, which is a record of where students went and not an endorsement (expenditure sanction memo No. F.8(2-23)-SE/PLAN/2020).

The grant is also a budget line with a shelf life. The 2021-22 sub-allocation for the scheme was drawn against the Revenue Scholarship and Stipend head under Demand No. 19 and stayed valid only up to 31.03.2022 (expenditure sanction memo No. F.8(2-23)-SE/PLAN/2020), so the release the coaching money comes out of expires with the state's financial year rather than with the coaching year.

The scheme is administered by the Super 30 Cell, Directorate of Secondary Education, Government of Tripura, at Shiksha Bhawan, Office Lane, Agartala, Tripura (West), the address the scheme's own application format prints for the Director, Secondary Education (Super 30 application format), and the Directorate's notification points queries to its official website at schooleducation.tripura.gov.in (notification No. F.13(5-37)-SE/GL-/2020(L-II)). The District Education Offices were the counter for the scheme while applications were still on paper, holding the printed application format as well as taking it back in (advertisement and notification No. F.13(5-37)-SE/GL-I/2020(L)). Since the move online the Directorate has published no dedicated helpline number or email address for the scheme.