Vahli Dikri Yojana(VDY)

Overview

About VDY

Vahli Dikri Yojana is money paid to a family for a daughter, and the claim on it is opened when she is a baby. A student already sitting in Class 12 or in a degree course cannot start one now, and neither can her parents. What the family gets is one entitlement that pays out three times as the girl grows up, run by the Women and Child Development Department rather than by any education office.

The scheme belongs to daughters of Gujarat families born on or after 02/08/2019, meaning after 11:59 at night on 01/08/2019, and the department attaches two more tests to the birth itself: the mother had to be 18 years or older when the girl was born, and the couple's joint annual income has to sit at or below the ceiling, as the Women and Child Development Department sets it out.

Three payments follow, and each one is released by an event rather than by an application season. Rs 4000 lands when the daughter is admitted to standard 1, Rs 6000 when she is admitted to standard 9, and Rs 1,00,000 at the age of 18 as higher study or marriage aid, on the same department page.

Added up, the three stages come to INR 1,10,000 for each daughter, the total the department's own scheme note quotes.

Why the state pays at all is answered in the Gujarati text of its initiative page, which names three targets: a higher birth rate for daughters, a smaller dropout ratio in schooling, and an end to child marriage, Women and Child Development Department, published in January 2023. Read against that birth-date cut-off, the eighteenth-birthday payment is still more than a decade away for every daughter enrolled so far.

Who runs it

Provider

At a glance

Key details

Calendar

Important dates

Vahli Dikri Yojana has no application season. Each daughter carries her own deadline, counted from her own date of birth.

Two dates fix everything. Births from 02/08/2019 onward are inside the scheme, and the application has to reach the department within a year of the birth, both set by the department's scheme note. After that the dates are personal: admission to standard 1, admission to standard 9, and the eighteenth birthday.

Who can apply

Eligibility criteria

The birth date is the hard gate. A daughter born on 01/08/2019 is outside the scheme and a daughter born the next day is inside it, and no document produced later moves that line.

The income test is a couple's joint income, the husband's and wife's together, and one figure covers rural and urban families alike, per the department's Gujarati scheme note. That is worth noticing because the Ganga Swarupa widow-assistance scheme, listed just above Vahli Dikri on the department's women-welfare page, sets separate rural and urban ceilings. The ceiling is Rs 2 Lakh, as the Patan district administration states it and as the department states it.

Which daughters count is the one point where the published material pulls in two directions. The Women and Child Development Department writes that all the daughters out of the first 3 children of the couple get the benefit, in its women-welfare note, while the Patan district page describes the scheme as being for the first two girl children of the family, on its scheme listing, and the myScheme record on this page uses the same first-two wording. The readings split on real families: where the first three children are all daughters, the department's wording covers the third girl and the first-two wording does not. The department is the implementing body, so its text is the stronger one, and the District Women and Child Officer's office is where a particular family's case gets decided.

Beyond that, the family has to be resident in Gujarat and hold a bank account, since every instalment is credited to an account rather than handed over.

Who cannot apply

Exclusions

What disqualifies a family is not published as a list. It is coded into the form on the state's own portal, and those validation rules are the honest exclusion list: the form will not submit where the income entered crosses the ceiling, and it will not accept a daughter whose date of birth falls before her parents' date of marriage, per the department's training deck for the portal.

The same form refuses an application where the gap between either parent's date of birth and the date of marriage shows that the marriage happened below the legal minimum age, which is the anti child marriage objective enforced as software rather than as a circular.

A daughter who arrives after the couple's first 3 children falls outside the department's own wording, and so does any daughter born before the cut-off date, both fixed by the department's eligibility note.

Continuation

Renewal conditions

Nothing about Vahli Dikri Yojana is renewed year on year. All three payments hang on one application made in the daughter's first year, the window the department's scheme note sets.

What the department publishes describes that first application well and stops there. It does not set out how the standard 9 payment or the eighteenth-birthday payment is claimed years later, so the sanction order the office issues with its e-sign after approval is the document a family should keep, since that order is what the portal hands back to the applicant.

The only continuation condition in public view comes from myScheme's FAQ, which says the remaining assistance may not be provided if the girl drops out of school, on the scheme's myScheme record. The department's own pages do not state that rule, and the District Women and Child Officer is the office to ask when a stage arrives and nothing moves.

What you get

Award & benefits

The amounts are fixed sums per stage, not reimbursements against a fee receipt, so nothing has to be spent first and claimed back.

Some pages quote a birth instalment that this table lacks. That version comes from the Patan district page, which lists Rs 4000 at birth, Rs 10000 at Class 9 and Rs 1 lakh at the wedding, on its benefits note; the implementing department's own page has no payment at birth, so the table follows the department.

• Financial Assistance at Different Stages: ₹4,000/- at the time of admission in 1st standard.
• ₹6,000/- at the time of admission in 9th standard.
• ₹1,00,000/- at the age of 18 years for higher education or marriage.

What to prepare

Documents required

The paperwork is built around Aadhaar verification done live inside the form rather than around photocopies. Where both parents are alive, the daughter's Aadhaar and both parents' Aadhaar are verified; where a guardian is raising her, only the daughter's Aadhaar is verified and the guardian's name is recorded; single mother, single father and orphanage or voluntary institution are separate options with their own reduced sets, all specified in the department's portal training material.

Three fields carry rules of their own. The ration card number has to be written exactly as printed, together with the member ID shown next to the name on the card. The main-earner field is filled with whichever parent, mother or father, the income certificate is issued to. And the bank details must belong to a nationalised bank, in the daughter's name or either parent's.

The upload set adds the daughter's photograph, the Aadhaar consent form, and the declaration printed on page 2 of the Vahli Dikri form, signed by the applicant. The portal will not save an application whose uploaded file names carry special characters, so rename the files before the upload step.

Step by step

How to apply

Gujarat runs this scheme on a portal of its own, e-Mahila Kalyan, built for the Women and Child Development Department, even though the myScheme record on this page still lists the application as offline only. There are three doors into the portal: a beneficiary can sign up with a name, mobile number and email, a beneficiary can instead come through Citizen SSO, and departmental staff and the village computer entrepreneur (VCE) at the e-gram centre log in through Digital Gujarat, as the department's training material sets out.

The assisted route still exists for families who would rather not do it themselves. The form can be collected and handed back at the anganwadi centre, the gram panchayat, the CDPO (ICDS) office or the District Women and Child Officer's office, the offline path myScheme records for the scheme. Patan's district page also points applicants to the VCE at the village panchayat and to the widow-assistance operator in the taluka Mamlatdar office, on its how-to-apply note.

Online, the form runs in three steps. The first captures caste, mobile number, the Aadhaar details of the daughter and her parents, the parents' date of marriage, whether the daughter has any disability, the income figure, and the address as it appears on Aadhaar. The second takes the nationalised bank account and the uploads. The third is a review screen, and once you save there, nothing can be edited from your end.

Status checks on e-Mahila Kalyan run off the applicant's own login. Pressing Confirm & Submit sends the form into the login of the district field officer, and from then on the status panel names the officer in whose login it is pending, so a family can see which desk is holding it. myScheme adds that the applicant is told by SMS whether the application was found eligible, and that an approved beneficiary receives the assistance in the bank account, in its application steps.

The window is short: the application has to be made within a year of the daughter's birth, in the prescribed form with the supporting proofs, as the department's Gujarati scheme note requires.

How winners are picked

Selection process

Vahli Dikri Yojana does not rank applicants against one another. An application that clears the birth date, the mother's age, the income ceiling and the child-order rule is entitled to the money, and one that fails any of them is not.

What happens instead is verification at district level. The submitted form lands with the district field officer; where something in it needs correcting, the district office sends it back as a query, and only after that return can the applicant or the operator change it. Approval ends with a sanction order carrying the department's e-sign, which is handed to the applicant, the workflow the department's training material describes.

Fine print

Terms & conditions

Payment goes to a nationalised bank account, and the department's portal material lets that account stand in the daughter's name or in either parent's name, per the training deck. myScheme's FAQ on this page is stricter and says the account must be in the girl child's name, so a family holding only a parent's account should confirm which rule its district office applies before filing.

An application saved at the applicant's level is locked. The only route to a correction is the district office returning it as a query, so the review screen is the last point at which a family can fix a typo on its own. The Aadhaar consent form has to be uploaded in its own slot and is not interchangeable with a copy of the Aadhaar card itself, and any upload slot the portal greys out needs nothing at all.

Get help

Contact

Start at the anganwadi centre, the nearest of the offices myScheme lists for this form; above it sit the CDPO (ICDS) office and the District Women and Child Officer. Implementation runs through the Director of Women Welfare under the Commissioner, Women and Child Development, the office the department names.

Gandhinagar is the last resort, not the first call, since a query about one application is settled at district level. The postal address is Block No. 9, 8th Floor, New Sachivalaya, Gandhinagar, and the listed number is 079-232-57942, both on the department's site.

Source

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Frequently asked questions

From the official scheme FAQ (myScheme)

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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.

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