Compiled 10 August 2026 from public reporting and Medhasoft portal references. Amounts, eligibility conditions and application windows for this scheme have changed between cycles. Confirm on the official portal before acting.
Of all the schemes available to families in Saharsa, Madhepura and Supaul, this is the one most often left unclaimed — not because girls in the division are ineligible, but because nobody tells them it exists until after the window has closed.
Mukhyamantri Kanya Utthan Yojana is a one-time incentive paid to girl students at two milestones:
- ₹25,000 reported on passing intermediate (class 12).
- ₹50,000 reported on completing graduation.
Quick facts
| Scheme | Mukhyamantri Kanya Utthan Yojana |
|---|---|
| Administered by | Education Department, Government of Bihar |
| Portal | medhasoft.bihar.gov.in |
| Reported benefit | ₹25,000 (intermediate) · ₹50,000 (graduation) |
| Payment | Direct Benefit Transfer to an Aadhaar-seeded account |
| Helpline | 1800 345 6345 |
| Application fee | None |
Who is eligible
For the graduation component, the conditions reported are:
- Female student, resident of Bihar.
- Unmarried at the time of application — this condition has been widely reported and is the one that disqualifies the most applicants.
- Graduated from a recognised college in Bihar, with the university appearing on the scheme's list.
- Open across General, OBC, SC, ST and EWS categories.
- A minimum of 33% marks in the qualifying examination has been reported.
Documents and file sizes
The portal enforces file size limits and rejects uploads that exceed them. Prepare these before you start:
| Document | Reported limit |
|---|---|
| Photograph (JPG/PNG) | up to 500 KB |
| Signature | up to 200 KB |
| Aadhaar card | up to 1 MB |
| All marksheets (10th, 12th, graduation) | up to 1 MB each |
| Bank passbook, first page | up to 500 KB |
Photographs taken on a modern phone are usually several megabytes. Compress them before you go to a cyber café, or you will pay for time spent solving a problem you could have solved at home.
How to apply
- Open medhasoft.bihar.gov.in and find the Kanya Utthan Yojana section, then the graduation component.
- Register as a new user with your mobile number and email, and verify by OTP. Existing users log in.
- Enter your name exactly as it appears on your marksheets. This single field causes more failures than any other.
- Enter address and educational details — 10th, 12th and graduation, with university, college, year and marks.
- Enter bank details: account number, IFSC and bank name. The account must be in your own name.
- Upload the documents within the size limits above.
- Submit and save the acknowledgement.
Checking status and payment
Status is checked back on the Medhasoft portal. Payment, once approved, is made by DBT.
If your status shows approved but nothing has reached your account, the cause is almost always the bank rather than the scheme:
- The account is not Aadhaar-seeded for DBT — which is not the same as having Aadhaar linked to the account. Ask your branch about DBT seeding specifically.
- Name mismatch between Aadhaar and the bank record.
- A dormant account, often one opened years earlier for a school scheme.
The scheme helpline is 1800 345 6345.
Can you take this alongside the Post Matric Scholarship?
This comes up constantly and deserves a careful answer.
Post Matric Scholarship rules bar you from availing another scholarship for the same course in the same academic session. Kanya Utthan Yojana is structured as a one-time incentive paid on completing a milestone, which is not the same thing as a parallel running scholarship.
But the practical treatment can vary, and the downside of getting it wrong is rejection of your main scholarship. Confirm your specific combination with your college's scholarship nodal officer before applying to both. Do not rely on a YouTube video or a cyber café operator.
Read the Post Matric Scholarship guide →
Frequently asked questions
How much does Mukhyamantri Kanya Utthan Yojana pay?
Reported amounts are ₹25,000 on passing intermediate and ₹50,000 on completing graduation, paid by DBT into an Aadhaar-seeded bank account after departmental verification.
Can married women apply for the graduation scholarship?
The graduation component has been reported as restricted to unmarried female graduates. This is the condition that disqualifies the largest number of applicants, so confirm the current wording on the official notification before applying.
I cannot find my name on the Medhasoft portal. What should I do?
Your university has to upload eligible students' data to the portal. If your details are not there, the problem sits with your college or university rather than with the portal. Speak to your college office and ask whether your data has been forwarded and uploaded.
Is there any fee to apply?
No. The scheme is free to apply for. A cyber café may charge its own service fee for filling the form, but there is no government fee and nobody can accelerate or guarantee payment.
My status shows approved but the money has not come. Why?
The most common cause is a bank account that is not Aadhaar-seeded for DBT, which is different from simply having Aadhaar linked to the account. Other causes are a name mismatch between Aadhaar and the bank record, or a dormant account.
The bottom line
If there is a girl in your household who has passed intermediate or completed graduation from a Bihar college, spend twenty minutes checking this scheme. The amounts are substantial by any standard in this division, and the most common reason families miss out is simply not knowing.
Start by checking whether your data has been uploaded by your university — because if it has not, that is the problem to solve first, and it is solved at your college rather than on the portal.
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