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ScholarshipLast date to apply 31 Oct 2026

PM Scholarship Scheme for Wards of RPF and RPSF Personnel 2026-27

Ministry of Railways (Railway Board)

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⚠️ This is the RPF scheme, not a scheme for all railway employees

• It is for the dependent wards — and widows — of ex or serving RPF and RPSF personnel below the rank of Gazetted Officer. RPF is the Railway Protection Force; RPSF is the Railway Protection Special Force. Other railway employees are not covered by this scheme.
• The Ministry of Home Affairs runs two further Prime Minister's Scholarship Schemes on the same portal — one for wards of state police personnel martyred in terror or naxal attacks, one for CAPF and Assam Rifles — and the Ministry of Defence runs its own for ex-servicemen's wards, which is NOT on this portal. They are different schemes with different rules.

What you get

• Paid monthly for the duration of the course, two to five years. Half the scholarships are reserved for women.
• Everyone selected under the new category also receives a personal letter from the Prime Minister, in an appropriate language.

Who can apply

• You must have taken REGULAR admission in the current academic year — a student already part-way through a course is not eligible for a fresh award.
• At least 60% marks or equivalent grade in the Minimum Entry Qualification for your course (see the table below).
• The scholarship is admissible to only two wards per family.
• Your college, institute or university must have an AISHE registration.
• ⚠️ Master's degree courses are NOT eligible, except MBA and MCA. Students studying abroad are not eligible. No distance-learning course is permitted. The scholarship can be used for one course only.
• Eligible courses are professional degree courses recognised by the relevant regulator — BE, B.Tech, MBBS, BDS, B.Ed, BBS, BCA, MCA, B.Pharma and similar, under AICTE, MCI, UGC, NCTE etc. The full list is Annexure-I of the guidelines.

If there are more applicants than scholarships

• Selection is in order of merit, approved by the DG/RPF each year. Where applications exceed the 150 available, this order of preference decides who gets one.
• Category I in full: wards and widows of ex-RPF/RPSF personnel who died in harness from causes attributed to an encounter with terrorists or with criminals while protecting railway property, passengers or passenger areas — or who died during election work.

The 150 scholarships, zone by zone

• The quota is fixed per zone and organisation. The column sums exactly to the 150 the guideline prints.
• ⚠️ 75 of the 150 are reserved for women, and a shortfall in one gender is NOT transferred to the other — if fewer than 75 eligible women apply, those places stay unused rather than passing to men, and the same the other way round.

How to apply

1. Apply online on the National Scholarship Portal (NSP) at https://scholarships.gov.in/ — it is the only route. Applications sent directly to the ministry or the institute are not accepted.
2. One Time Registration (OTR) comes first. You register once at https://scholarships.gov.in/otrapplication/ with Aadhaar-based e-KYC and get an OTR number, then use it for this and every other NSP scholarship, this year and in later years.
3. There is no application fee.
4. After you submit, your institute verifies the application, and then the district/state/ministry nodal officer verifies it. Both happen after the student deadline and neither is something you can do for them — submit early enough that they have time.
5. The final compiled list of eligible candidates is prepared by the Security Directorate, Railway Board, and sent onward to the Prime Minister's Office.

The deadlines that follow yours

• Your deadline is the first of four. The three after it belong to your institute and to the verifying officers, and the schedule is published by NSP.
• ⚠️ An application your institute never verifies is not an application. Submit early and then confirm with your institute that they have verified it.

Official documents & links

• Scheme guidelines (PDF, scholarships.gov.in) — Official notification · Official — scholarships.gov.in

These are the documents this page was written from. Where the government portal published a PDF, the copy above is the one we read — open it and check anything that matters to you.

See notification ↗ — Applications are submitted here, on the government's own site.

Frequently asked

What is the last date to apply for PM Scholarship Scheme for Wards of RPF and RPSF Personnel 2026-27?

31 Oct 2026.

What is the minimum qualification for PM Scholarship Scheme for Wards of RPF and RPSF Personnel 2026-27?

12th pass.

How do I apply for PM Scholarship Scheme for Wards of RPF and RPSF Personnel 2026-27 quickly?

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Last checked 6 Aug 2026

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