Uttar Pradesh Post Matric Scholarship

Uttar Pradesh's scholarship and fee reimbursement for SC, ST, OBC, general and minority students, run as three separate tracks with different deadlines.

Social Welfare Department, Government of Uttar Pradesh · India

Reported schedule, not yet confirmed

These dates appear consistently across unofficial trackers. We have not confirmed them against the official portal, so we show them as reported and run no countdown on them. Treat them as a reason to check the portal today, not as a deadline to rely on.

• Post-Matric for Class 11 and 12: fresh applications from 11 August to 21 September 2026
• Dashmottar, meaning everything other than Class 11 and 12 including UG, PG, ITI, polytechnic and B.Ed: portal opens 15 September 2026, renewals by 15 October, fresh applications by 31 October 2026
• Pre-Matric for Class 9 and 10: from 11 August 2026

Why this one matters

Of roughly 85 lakh applications in 2025-26, about 18.6 lakh students were actually paid. Close to four in five applicants were rejected, left pending, or stuck at a verification stage, and almost none of that is ineligibility. The three-track split is the first trap: a Class 10 student, a Class 12 student and a first-year degree student are on three different schedules with three different dashboards.

What it covers

tuition fee reimbursement, maintenance allowance. Levels funded: higher secondary, undergraduate, postgraduate.

Who can apply

• You must be a citizen of India
• You must be a resident of Uttar Pradesh
• Limited to these categories: SC, ST, OBC, General, Minority
• Family income must be under Rs 2 lakh a year
  Commonly cited as Rs 2 lakh a year, but ceilings differ by department and category and this figure is not confirmed against the portal. Check your own department's limit.

Where applications fail

Most rejected applications are not ineligible students. They are eligible students who missed a step.

• The only official portal is scholarship.up.gov.in. Search results are dominated by imitation sites with names like scholarship.up.in, upscholarships.in and upscholarshipup.com. They are not government sites. Type the gov.in address yourself rather than clicking a search result.
• Three separate departments run this scheme — Social Welfare for General, SC and ST students, Backward Classes Welfare, and Minority Welfare. Your department decides which dashboard and which rules apply to you.
• Class 11 and 12 students use the Post-Matric Inter dashboard. Everyone in college — UG, PG, ITI, diploma, B.Ed, medical, engineering — uses the Dashmottar dashboard instead. Using the wrong one wastes the attempt.
• One Time Registration with Aadhaar e-KYC comes first and only one OTR is permitted per student. Creating more than one can get you debarred.
• The portal is severely congested between September and December and splits traffic across numbered server links. All of them reach the same database, so if one fails, go back and use another rather than assuming the site is down.
• Your institution must be listed in the portal's master database. CBSE and ICSE students are eligible, but only if their school is recognised by the state and appears there.
• An income certificate issued by the Tehsildar is valid for three years. An older one may be accepted at submission and then rejected later by the district welfare officer, after the deadline has passed.
• Your school or college must have an active DISE or AISHE code in the portal's master database. Ask the office to confirm this before you start, because if the institution is not registered you cannot apply at all.

If this one is not for you

Being ruled out of a scheme is not the same as having no options. Here is what is still open.

• Missed your track's date? The three tracks close weeks apart. Confirm which one you are on before assuming it is over.
• Institution not on the portal? Ask the office to register its DISE or AISHE code. Until it does, no student there can apply.
• Not eligible on income? Look at the merit-based national schemes and the education loan route, which has no category condition.

Record status: partially_verified. Last checked: 2026-09-13. Attempted direct confirmation against scholarship.up.gov.in on 13 September 2026 and could not reach the portal. The schedule above is reported consistently across several unofficial trackers but remains unconfirmed, so Admitics runs no countdown on it. If you are in Uttar Pradesh, open the portal yourself today rather than trusting any third party, this site included. Source: https://scholarship.up.gov.in/

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