UP Dashmottar Scholarship 2026-27 (दशमोत्तर छात्रवृत्ति) — Eligibility, Amount, Last Date & eDistrict Certificates

What Is the Dashmottar Scholarship?

Dashmottar (दशमोत्तर) literally means “after Class 10”. It is the name Uttar Pradesh uses for its post-matric scholarship and fee reimbursement scheme (दशमोत्तर छात्रवृत्ति एवं शुल्क प्रतिपूर्ति योजना). On the Saksham portal at scholarship.up.gov.in, the important-dates box calls it “दशमोत्तर (11 & 12 के अतिरिक्त)” (Dashmottar other than Class 11-12), and the student login menu lists it as “Postmetric Other than Inter Students”: everything above Class 12.

Scheme on the portal	Who it is for	Covered on
Pre-Matric (Purvadasham)	Class 9-10	UP Scholarship
Post-Matric Intermediate	Class 11-12	UP Scholarship
Dashmottar (Postmetric Other than Inter)	UG, PG, diploma, polytechnic, ITI, B.Ed, professional courses, M.Phil/PhD	This page

Some department reports use “Dashmottar” for everything after Class 10, Class 11-12 included. When you apply, what matters is the portal’s scheme name: if you are in a degree, diploma or ITI course, log in as Postmetric Other than Inter Students. The plain “Postmetric Students” login is for Class 11-12; using it for a degree course runs the wrong eligibility checks and gets the form rejected.

UP students studying in another state are covered too: the SC/ST rules apply to UP residents studying anywhere in India, and the General rules set out the same process for out-of-state students. The portal has a separate “Postmetric Other State Students” login.

Dashmottar is not a single fund. Each category’s money comes from its own department, but everyone applies on the same portal with the same steps:

Category	Department (as listed on the portal)	Scheme behind it
SC	Social Welfare (समाज कल्याण)	Post-Matric Scholarship for SC, centrally sponsored: 40% state share, 60% central share
General	Social Welfare	State scheme
ST	Tribal Development (जनजाति विकास)	Post-Matric Scholarship for ST, centrally sponsored
OBC	Backward Classes Welfare (पिछड़ा वर्ग कल्याण)	State scheme (minority backward classes apply under Minority)
Minority	Minority Welfare (अल्पसंख्यक कल्याण)	State scheme for Muslim, Christian, Sikh, Buddhist, Jain and Parsi students

The department decides your rate, verifies your data at district level and makes the payment, which is why the amounts below differ by category.

Dashmottar Scholarship 2026-27 Last Date and Full Timetable

The 2026-27 timetable was issued by Government Order No. 91/2026/1941 of July 20, 2026 (Social Welfare Section-3), for SC, ST, General, OBC and minority students. The same dates appear in the “महत्वपूर्ण तिथियाँ” (important dates) box on scholarship.up.gov.in, which also shows the master-data stages extended to September. We last checked both on October 15, 2026.

Stage	Fresh	Renewal
Institutions prepare master data (courses, seats, fees)	July 22 – September 14, 2026	July 22 – September 14, 2026
University / affiliating agency verifies fees	July 23 – September 15, 2026	July 23 – September 15, 2026
Master data verification (District Social Welfare Officer)	July 25 – September 20, 2026	July 25 – September 20, 2026
Online application	September 15 – October 31, 2026	September 15 – October 15, 2026 (closed)
Take the final print	September 16 – November 2	—
Hard copy + documents to your institution	September 16 – November 4	September 15 – October 15
Institution verifies, does biometric authentication, enters marks and attendance, forwards	By November 10	By October 25
University / affiliating agency confirms real students, blocks ineligible ones	By November 25	By November 5
NIC scrutiny	November 26 – December 5	November 6 – 20
District committee locks the data	December 6 – 15	November 21 – 26
First payment round (PFMS)	December 21 – 31	December 1 – 10
Suspect-data verification and correction	December 6 – 31	November 21 – December 20
Second payment round (cases cleared after correction)	January 27 – 31, 2027	January 16 – 25, 2027

The order also says:

• A university can verify students and block courses or institutions only after the master data (courses, fees, seats) is locked.
• Your institution forwards a renewal only after your result is declared and you have passed or been promoted with marks; with semesters, both semesters count.
• Universities must upload exam results to the scholarship portal as soon as they are declared, so the marks can be matched.
• An application may not be left pending at any level. If it is held up at the institution, university or district, the nodal officer there is personally responsible.

What happened last year: the 2025-26 Dashmottar window closed on December 20, 2025. Many institutions had not locked their master data in time, so the government reopened the portal twice:

• December 2025: General, OBC and minority students could apply until January 14, 2026; SC/ST students until March 31, 2026.
• September 1, 2026: for 3,16,057 students, with payment scheduled for September 29 – October 2, 2026.

A reopening is a rescue, not a plan. Under the General rules, applications made in an extended window are placed last in the payment order.

Who Can Apply — Dashmottar Eligibility

You can apply if all of these are true:

1. You are a permanent resident of Uttar Pradesh (see the certificate rules below).
2. You study a recognised course above Class 12, at an institution in the portal’s master data for this year.
3. Your family income is within the limit for your category (table below).
4. You were admitted transparently: merit list, entrance exam or counselling. Management quota and spot admission seats are not eligible.
5. You study in a regular mode. See the correspondence rule below.
6. You have at least 75% attendance, recorded by Aadhaar-based biometric or face-recognition attendance.
7. For renewal, you passed last year’s exam, or were promoted with marks.
8. At a private institution, you are 40 or under on July 1 of the session, unless you are in a research or doctoral course.
9. You take only one scholarship or stipend for the course. If you qualify for two, you pick the better one.

Income Limit by Category

Category	Annual family income up to	Status
SC, ST	₹2.5 lakh	In force
General, OBC, minority	₹2 lakh	In force
General, OBC, minority	₹2.5 lakh	Announced by the Chief Minister in the Assembly on February 20, 2026. Check the notice on the portal before relying on it

“Family income” means your parents’ total yearly income from all sources (your husband’s, for a married woman who is not working), as shown on your income certificate. Other relatives’ income is not counted. If both parents have died, the income of the guardian supporting your studies is taken. All children of the same parents can get the scholarship.

Other Rules That Catch Students Out

These come from the 2023 SC/ST and General rule books on the portal:

• Two courses per level, at most: at each level (certificate, UG diploma, graduation, PG diploma, PG, research) you can get the scholarship for at most two courses: one professional and one non-professional. You must pass every year.

• Changing course: if you leave a course after being paid and join another, the first year of the new course is not covered; you become eligible from its second year, with an affidavit. The exception is a student who moves from a non-professional course to a professional one after ranking in an all-India or state entrance exam.

• Fee paid for the whole course at once: if you paid the estimated fee of the entire course in one go, you are not eligible.

• Marks for private professional courses:

  Course entry level	General	SC/ST
  Graduation (e.g. MBA, M.Tech, B.Ed)	55% in graduation	50% in graduation
  Class 12 (e.g. B.Tech, B.Pharma)	60% in Class 12	No minimum in the rules

• ITI and Class-10-entry courses at private institutes: covered only if you join within 6 years of passing high school.

• Correspondence and distance courses: excluded under the General and OBC rules. Under the SC/ST rules, they are covered only at central and state universities.

• Excluded courses (all categories): aircraft maintenance engineering, private pilot licence, Training Ship Dufferin (Rajendra), Sainik School Dehradun training, pre-exam coaching, private courses with no certificate from a university or competent body, and private institutes in UP affiliated only to another state’s university.

• Stipends and fellowships: PG students who get a government stipend or fellowship are not eligible; MBBS interns get nothing for the internship period.

• Institution grading: from 2025-26, students are paid only at universities and institutions with NAAC grading (NBA grading for technical courses), and only where Aadhaar-based biometric attendance is in place.

Check your Dashmottar eligibility

Answer seven questions. The checker runs your answers through the income limits, admission rules, renewal rule and amount tables on this page.

Category

SCSTOBCGeneralMinority

Annual family income (₹)The figure on your eDistrict income certificate.CourseGroup 1: MBBS, B.Tech, MBA, LLB, B.Sc Agriculture, MCA, M.Phil/PhD…Group 2: B.Pharma, B.Sc Nursing, M.Ed, paramedical, hotel management, ITI/polytechnic after Class 12…Group 3: BA, B.Sc, B.Com, MA, M.Sc, M.Com…Group 4: ITI or 3-year polytechnic diploma after Class 10

Where you live

Day scholar (at home)Hosteller

How you got admission

Merit list, entrance exam or counsellingManagement quota, spot admission, or direct admission without counselling

Mode of study

RegularCorrespondence / distance / online

Application type

Fresh (first year of the course)Renewal: passed last year’s examRenewal: failed, or back paper

I am over 40, at a private institution, and not a research (PhD) studentCheck eligibility

A guide based on the rules and rates on this page, not a decision. Your institution, the university and the district welfare officer verify every application.

How Much You Get (Kitna Paisa Milta Hai) — Fee Reimbursement + Allowance

The Dashmottar payment has two parts:

Part	What it covers	Paid to
Fee reimbursement (शुल्क प्रतिपूर्ति)	Compulsory non-refundable fees: admission/registration, tuition, exam, sports, union, library, magazine, medical exam and similar fees, as approved	Your bank account by DBT
Maintenance allowance (शैक्षणिक / अनुरक्षण भत्ता)	Books, travel and living costs, by course group and by day scholar or hosteller	Your bank account by DBT

Refundable deposits (security, caution money) and hostel or mess charges are never reimbursed. Students who get free food or free lodging receive one-third of the allowance. Divyang students get 10% extra.

Course Groups

Your amount depends on which of four groups your course falls in:

Group	Courses (examples)
Group 1	Degree and PG courses in medicine, engineering/technology, architecture, planning, design, agriculture, veterinary, management, computer applications (MBBS, B.Tech, MBA, MCA, B.Sc Agriculture); LLB, LLM; CA, CS, ICWA; M.Phil, PhD
Group 2	Other professional degree, diploma and certificate courses: pharmacy, nursing, M.Ed, paramedical, hotel management, mass communication
Group 3	General graduate degrees: BA, B.Sc, B.Com and other graduation courses not in Groups 1-2
Group 4	Non-degree courses with Class 10 entry: ITI, 3-year polytechnic diploma (and Class 11-12)

MA, M.Sc and M.Com: the General rules put them in Group 2; the central SC/ST guidelines put general PG degrees in Group 3.

SC and General Students — Maintenance Allowance

The General scheme’s rate table (annexure to the 2023 rules) matches the rates the SC scheme follows:

Group	Day scholar (₹/year)	Hosteller (₹/year)
Group 1	7,000	13,500
Group 2	6,500	9,500
Group 3	3,000	6,000
Group 4	2,500	4,000

Under the General rules, the allowance runs from April 1 or the month of enrolment, whichever is later, until the month your exams end. ST students are paid under the central ST rates; check the rate for your course on the portal.

Fee Reimbursement by Category

Category	How much of the fee is reimbursed
SC, ST	The lowest of: the fee approved by the competent authority, the fee you enter, the fee locked by the university, and the fee locked by the District Social Welfare Officer. No fixed rupee cap
General	The approved fee, up to ₹50,000 (Group 1), ₹30,000 (Group 2), ₹20,000 (Group 3) or ₹10,000 (Group 4), whichever is less
OBC	The approved fee up to the group ceiling (table below)
Minority	As set in the Minority Welfare Department’s rules; check the scheme notice on the portal

Private institutions that set their own fees: the reimbursement is the lower of the fee charged and the highest fee for the same self-financed course in the state universities (and, for General students, the group cap). Where no authority has fixed the fee, the state universities’ lowest fee for the same regular course is used.

OBC Students — Annual Maximum (Fees + Allowance)

The Backward Classes Welfare Department gives a single yearly maximum per student: a fee reimbursement ceiling plus 12 months of maintenance allowance. The Group 3 (₹20,000) and Group 4 (₹10,000) fee ceilings are set by the 2021 amendment to the OBC rules.

Group	Fee ceiling (₹)	Maximum, day scholar (₹/year)	Maximum, hosteller (₹/year)
Group 1 (B.Tech, MBBS, MBA…)	50,000	56,600	64,400
Group 2 (B.Pharma, nursing, PG non-technical…)	30,000	36,360	39,840
Group 3 (BA, B.Sc, B.Com…)	20,000	23,600	26,840
Group 4 (ITI, polytechnic)	10,000	12,760	14,560

If your actual fee is below the ceiling, you get the actual fee. For a Group 1 day scholar, the fee is 88% of the maximum, so the fee rule matters far more than the allowance.

Take the fee ceiling away and the rest is the allowance: ₹550 a month (day scholar) or ₹1,200 (hosteller) in Group 1, ₹530 / ₹820 in Group 2, ₹300 / ₹570 in Group 3 and ₹230 / ₹380 in Group 4. That is the “₹230 to ₹1,200 a month” range other websites quote.

Who Gets Paid First When the Budget Is Short

The money is paid within the budget, in a fixed order. Renewals are paid before fresh applications, and within each, institutions are taken in this order:

1. Government and government autonomous institutions
2. Government-aided institutions
3. Private institutions

Category	How students are ranked within each group
General	By last year’s marks, highest first, down to a 50% minimum; then older students first, then alphabetically, then by application time. Renewals also need 50% marks each year
SC/ST	By weightage points: passed high school or intermediate from a government or aided school (10), both parents not literate (8), one parent not literate (6), two SECC-2011 deprivations (4); then older students first

SC/ST payments come in two instalments: the state’s 40% share first, then the Centre’s 60% share, paid directly by the Government of India to the same Aadhaar-seeded account.

Government, Aided or Private College

• Government and aided colleges: fees are fixed and low, so payments are simple. SC/ST students here get free admission: the institution generates a freeship card from the portal when it forwards the application, and the fee is paid later from the scholarship. Free admission is not available at private institutions.
• Private (self-financed) colleges: the course and fee must be approved and locked in the master data. Admission must be transparent (advertised, rank list, published selection list); this rule was tightened in January 2026 for SC/ST and General students in private technical and vocational courses. If the college charges more than the approved fee, you can lose the fee reimbursement.

eDistrict Certificates — Get These Before You Apply

The Saksham portal does not just take your certificate numbers. It checks them against the eDistrict records and the Revenue Council (राजस्व परिषद) website, and a mismatch stops the form.

Certificate	Who needs it	Rules for Dashmottar
Income certificate (आय प्रमाण पत्र)	Everyone	Issued by the Tehsildar or SDM through eDistrict, in your parent’s name, and visible on the Revenue Council website. It must include all income, salary too: leaving out a parent’s salary gets the application rejected. House rent allowance is not counted. For a course longer than one year it is taken once, at admission; a new course needs a new one. Validity is checked on July 1 of the session
Caste certificate (जाति प्रमाण पत्र)	SC, ST, OBC	Caste name exactly as in the official list. For SC/ST students studying in UP, the caste certificate shows your residence, so no separate domicile certificate is needed
Domicile certificate (निवास प्रमाण पत्र)	General students; SC/ST students studying outside UP; OBC and minority students when the form asks for it	Issued by the SDM of your tehsil, not more than 5 years old on your admission date, and on the Revenue Council website. A UP Family ID is needed first

Each certificate costs ₹10-15 on eSathi (esathi.up.gov.in) and takes 7-15 working days, or 20-30 days in August-October, when lakhs of students apply at once and the Lekhpal verification queue grows. Each sibling needs a separate income certificate number. Upload the self-declaration form with each eSathi application.

Documents Required and Official Checklist

Keep these ready before you start. The list follows the Social Welfare Directorate’s instructions for students (छात्रों हेतु महत्वपूर्ण निर्देश) and the 2023 rules.

Document	Who needs it	Notes
Aadhaar card	Everyone	Name, father’s name, gender and date of birth must match your high school marksheet
High school marksheet and certificate	Everyone	The base for your name and date of birth
Last exam’s marksheet	Everyone	Marks and full marks are matched with the university’s uploaded result
Income certificate	Everyone	Online-issued, in your parent’s name
Caste certificate	SC, ST, OBC	Online-issued
Domicile certificate	General; SC/ST studying outside UP; others if asked	Online-issued, under 5 years old
Fee receipt / fee details	Everyone	The actual annual non-refundable fee, confirmed with your institution
University or board registration (enrolment) number	Everyone except first-year students	Needed for every renewal
Bank passbook	Everyone	Your own account, Aadhaar-seeded and NPCI-mapped
Mobile number and email	Everyone	Your own; one mobile number per application

Do:

• Make sure your name, father’s name, gender and date of birth on Aadhaar match your high school marksheet exactly.
• Fresh applicants: complete KYC through DigiLocker, which matches your Aadhaar number, name and date of birth. Renewal applicants: Aadhaar demographic authentication plus an OTP on your Aadhaar-linked mobile.
• Use your own email and your own Aadhaar-linked mobile number. One mobile number is valid on one application only.
• Have a bank account seeded with Aadhaar and mapped on NPCI. Keep it active: keep the minimum balance, make a transaction at least every 3 months, and make sure it has no limit on how much money can come in.
• Enter the fee after confirming the actual non-refundable fee with your institution. At private institutions, the course type is always self-financed.
• Fill the form yourself. If someone else (a cyber café or the institution) fills it, watch every entry and check a printout before submitting.
• Check your login 3 days after submitting: errors in your certificate numbers, income or roll numbers are shown there. Fix them (the high school roll number can’t be changed), then take the final print and get a receipt from your institution.

Don’t:

• Don’t give your application to anyone else to hand in. Submit it to the institution yourself and get the receipt.
• Don’t share your Aadhaar number, high school roll number, bank account or password.
• Don’t use another student’s Aadhaar, roll number, bank account or certificates. That gets the application cancelled and leads to penal action against the student and the institution.
• Don’t apply if you failed your exam.
• Don’t wait for the last date. Without the final printout in the institution’s hands, the application doesn’t count.

How to Apply for Dashmottar — Step by Step

These are the official pages on scholarship.up.gov.in for Dashmottar students (they open in a new tab):

Fresh vs renewal: fresh is for the first year of a course. Renewal is for the second and later years of the same course. You log in with the same OTR, and you fill only a few entries: last exam’s marks and full marks, date of admission to the current class, and your university or board registration number. Two rules from the official instructions:

• Not paid in the first year? Still apply for renewal in the next class, not as a fresh student.
• Result not declared yet? Choose “Result Not yet Declared” and apply. Update the result before the suspect-data correction period ends, or the application is treated as rejected.

If you change course (BA to MA), it is a fresh application again.

What Happens After You Submit

1. 1

   Institution

   Level 1 · verify & forward

   A committee headed by the principal checks your documents, does biometric authentication, enters marks and attendance, and forwards or rejects.

2. 2

   University

   Level 2 · confirm

   Confirms you are a real enrolled student; can block students, courses or whole institutions.

3. 3

   NIC + district committee

   Level 3 · scrutiny

   Checks against eDistrict, DigiLocker, board, university and PFMS data; the district committee headed by the DM approves and locks the data.

4. 4

   PFMS

   Level 4 · payment

   Money goes by DBT to your Aadhaar-seeded account, in one or two rounds.

The university step is the one most specific to Dashmottar. If your university has not uploaded your enrolment or result, the portal cannot match you, and the application stalls as “suspect data”. Ask your college to chase the university before the November 25 deadline; you can’t fix it yourself.

If your data is flagged as suspect, you must answer the reason, with evidence, online through your institution within the correction period (December 6-31 for fresh applications). If the answer is not uploaded in time, or doesn’t prove your claim, the district committee rejects the application with a digital signature. Our UP Scholarship guide explains the correction window in detail.

Why Dashmottar Applications Fail — And How to Prevent It

Private Colleges: Where Most Money Gets Stuck

The September 2026 reopening shows where the problems are. Of the 3,16,057 students whose 2025-26 scholarship had not come:

Institution type	Students	Share
Private	2,46,426	78%
Government-aided	37,795	12%
Government	31,836	10%

Private institutions carry most of the risk because their fees, seats and admissions need the most checks, because they come last in the payment order, and because the state has had to act against fraud there. In 2023 the Enforcement Directorate searched 22 locations in 6 districts. Private institutions had opened about 3,000 bank accounts in the names of children and older people to draw scholarship money. By October 2023 the alleged amount had passed ₹100 crore, five people, including an institute chairman, had been arrested, and more than ₹6 crore of assets had been attached.

How Big Is Dashmottar? 2025-26 and 2026-27 Figures

Government figures give a sense of the scale (pre- and post-matric are usually reported together; OBC is the only category with a published Dashmottar split):

Figure	Value	Source
OBC Dashmottar beneficiaries, 2025-26	27,86,431 students, ₹2,882.02 crore	Backward Classes Welfare Directorate
… of whom in higher education (UG, PG, diploma, professional)	19,32,998 (51.8% girls)	Same
… of whom Class 11-12	8,53,433	Same
Average per OBC Dashmottar student	about ₹10,340	Our calculation
Dashmottar share of all OBC scholarship money, 2025-26	93% (₹2,882 of ₹3,102 crore)	Our calculation
SC/ST scholarships, last year (all levels)	about ₹2,750 crore to 26.26 lakh students	Chief Minister, October 3, 2026
Minority scholarships, last year (all levels)	₹360 crore to 5.89 lakh students	Chief Minister, October 3, 2026
UP’s share of the first PMS-SC central release (April 2021)	₹892.36 crore of ₹4,000 crore (22%), the largest of any state	PIB
Payment of October 3, 2026	₹148.04 crore to 4,60,559 students: SC 1,59,959, OBC 2,23,615, minority 38,901, General 38,084	State government

The state’s target for this year is 70 lakh scholarship beneficiaries across all levels.

Official Rules — Download the Niyamavali

These are the current post-matric rule books (नियमावली) published on scholarship.up.gov.in. Everything on this page about eligibility, fees and the payment order comes from them.

The minority category’s 2023 guideline is listed on the portal, but its link was not working when we checked (October 15, 2026).

When Will the Money Come (Kab Aayegi)? Payment Dates and Status

The 2026-27 order fixes two payment rounds for each group:

Payment round	Renewal students	Fresh students	Who is paid
First round	December 1 – 10, 2026	December 21 – 31, 2026	Applications with clean data, locked by the district committee
Second round	January 16 – 25, 2027	January 27 – 31, 2027	Applications flagged as suspect data and cleared after correction

The money goes straight to your Aadhaar-seeded bank account through PFMS. SC/ST students get the state’s 40% share first and the Centre’s 60% share later, so a first credit smaller than expected is normal. Payments also follow the budget order: government institutions first, private ones last.

How to check your status:

Why the money can be late: your institution forwarded late, the university hasn’t uploaded your result, your data is in the suspect list, your bank account isn’t DBT-ready, or the budget ran out before your place in the payment order. The first three are fixed through your institution; the fourth at your bank.

Helpline and Complaints

If you are stuck, go in this order:

1. Your institution’s scholarship desk: forwarding, fee or master-data problems, the hard copy, the university upload, suspect-data replies.

2. District officer for your category: District Social Welfare Officer (SC, General), District Backward Class Welfare Officer (OBC), District Minority Welfare Officer (minority), District Scheduled Tribes Officer (ST).

3. State department helplines (as listed on the portal’s Contact Us page, 9:30 AM to 6 PM except holidays):

   Department	For	Phone
   Social Welfare	SC and General	0522-3538700 · toll-free 14568
   Backward Classes Welfare	OBC	0522-2288861 · toll-free 1800-180-5131
   Minority Welfare	Minority	0522-2286150 · 0522-2286470
   Tribal Development	ST	Contact through the District Scheduled Tribes Officer

4. Jansunwai / CM Helpline: jansunwai.up.nic.in or 1076.

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