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  "type": "article",
  "title": "Rajasthan Scholarship Students Must Complete Biometric Verification Before This Deadline Or Lose Their Payment",
  "summary": "Rajasthan's Social Justice and Empowerment Department has made biometric attendance mandatory for pending scholarship applications from the 2024-25 and 2025-26 sessions, with applications left incomplete after the deadline set to be dropped.",
  "content": "Thousands of students in Rajasthan waiting on their government scholarship now have a hard deadline to clear one mandatory step, or the money will not reach their bank accounts.\n\nThe Social Justice and Empowerment Department has made it clear that scholarship funds will only be released once a student's biometric attendance has been recorded on the scholarship portal. In other words, simply submitting an application is no longer enough, without biometric verification the file will not move forward and the payment process stops right there.\n\nTwo sessions, two separate deadlines\nThe department has fixed two different cut-off dates for pending applications from two academic sessions. Applications from the 2024-25 session that are stuck because of incomplete biometric verification must be cleared by 15 September 2026. Students from the 2025-26 session have until 15 October 2026 to finish the same step. The department has repeated that once either deadline passes, applications still pending purely because of missing biometric data will not be taken up any further, effectively shutting eligible students out of that year's scholarship altogether.\n\nWhy biometric matters, and where students need to go\nGaurav Sharma, Deputy Director of the Social Justice and Empowerment Department for Jaipur Rural, said students whose scholarship applications are stuck at the institution level because of incomplete biometric verification must get their attendance recorded before the deadline. To do this, students have to approach their own school or college administration directly, since the process is completed at the institution level and not through the department's own office. Simply waiting will not help, students themselves have to take the first step.\n\nOver 13,500 applications stuck in Jaipur Rural alone\nIn the Jaipur Rural region alone, more than 13,500 scholarship applications for the 2025-26 session are currently pending at the institution level. These include applicants from the Scheduled Caste, Scheduled Tribe, Other Backward Classes and Economically Backward Classes categories, covering nearly every reserved group. Because biometric and other formalities have not been completed on time, a large number of otherwise eligible students are facing delays in receiving scholarship money, even though many of them need that support the most.\n\nWhat happens after the deadline, and who is responsible\nThe department has directed all concerned institutions to finish processing every pending application from both the 2024-25 and 2025-26 sessions within the given timeframe. Only after biometric verification is complete will these applications move forward to the district office, from where eligible students will be paid according to the budget available. The department's goal is to settle every eligible application on time so that students can receive their scholarship out of the available budget. It has also made clear that if this process is not completed within the deadline, both the student and the institution will be held responsible. Students would therefore do well to track their own application status regularly rather than relying entirely on their institution.\n\nWhat this means for you\nIf you or a student in your family is waiting on a government scholarship in Rajasthan, the biggest effect is direct and financial, missing the biometric step in time can leave the entire scholarship amount stuck.\n\n• Across Rajasthan: every student whose 2024-25 or 2025-26 application is still pending at the institution level is affected. They must get the biometric process done at their college or school before 15 September 2026 or 15 October 2026, whichever session applies to them.\n• In Jaipur Rural: more than 13,500 students here alone have applications stuck for exactly this reason. Each of them needs to contact their institution right away, or risk losing the chance to receive the scholarship amount at all.\n• For SC/ST/OBC/EBC students: these four categories make up most of the pending applications, so students from these groups should check both their eligibility and application status without delay.\n• If the deadline is missed: an application without completed biometric data will simply not be forwarded to the district office, meaning no payment even if budget is available.\n• On accountability: the department has stated that both the student and the institution will be held responsible for any delay, so students should follow up themselves rather than relying only on their institution.\n\nQuestions & Answers\n\n1. Why has biometric attendance been made mandatory for the scholarship in Rajasthan?\nThe Social Justice and Empowerment Department has made it clear that scholarship money will now be transferred only after a student's biometric attendance is recorded.\n\n2. What is the deadline for students from the 2024-25 session?\nPending applications from the 2024-25 session must complete biometric registration by 15 September 2026.\n\n3. How much time do 2025-26 session students have?\nStudents from the 2025-26 session must finish this process by 15 October 2026.\n\n4. Will a scholarship still be paid if biometric is completed after the deadline?\nNo, the department has said applications still pending due to incomplete biometric data after the cut-off date will not be considered.\n\n5. How many applications are currently stuck in Jaipur Rural?\nMore than 13,500 scholarship applications from the 2025-26 session in Jaipur Rural are reported pending at the institution level.\n\n6. What must a student do to complete the biometric process?\nStudents need to contact their respective school or college and get their biometric attendance recorded there.\n\n7. Who is held responsible if the process is not completed in time?\nThe department has said both the concerned student and the institution will be held responsible in such a case.\n\n8. What happens to an application once biometric verification is done?\nOnce biometric verification is complete, the application is forwarded to the district office, from where the amount is released based on available budget.",
  "url": "https://trendkia.com/en/rajasthan/rajasthan-ke-skolarashipa-studentsa-ke-lie-bari-khabara-bayometrika-nahin-karaya-to-nahin-milegi-chhatravritti-ki-rakama-28419",
  "category": "Rajasthan",
  "publishedAt": "2026-09-06",
  "tags": [
    "Rajasthan scholarship",
    "biometric attendance",
    "Social Justice Department",
    "scholarship deadline",
    "Jaipur Rural",
    "SC ST OBC scholarship"
  ],
  "language": "en",
  "site": "TrendKia"
}