20 hrs ago
Bank Errors Delay Scholarships for 802 Khandwa Students
Scholarship money was supposed to be sent to students in Khandwa district.
Payments to 802 students did not go through.
Many bank account numbers or IFSC codes were entered incorrectly.
Some payments were also rejected because of Aadhaar-linked KYC problems.
Khandwa block had the most failed payments, with 281.
Officials said schools or clusters responsible for mistakes would be investigated.
They promised to fix the errors quickly.
The students should receive their pending scholarships after the corrections are made.
Scholarship payments failed for 802 eligible students in Khandwa district.
Officials attributed the failures mainly to incorrect bank account details and IFSC codes.
Aadhaar-linked KYC problems also caused some digital transactions to be rejected.
Khandwa block reported the most failed payments with 281, followed by Pandhana with 161.
District Education Officer Balwant Patel said errors would be investigated and corrected to release pending payments.
- Who
- Scholarship-eligible students in Khandwa district, along with district education officials and schools handling student data.
- What
- Scholarship payments to 802 students failed because of incorrect bank details, IFSC codes and, in some cases, Aadhaar-linked KYC issues.
- Where
- Khandwa district, Madhya Pradesh, across its seven blocks.
- When
- The article does not specify when the payment failures occurred.
- Why
- Errors entered during student mapping and profile updates on School Education Portal 3.0 caused many transactions to fail.
Key facts
- Failed payments
- 802
- Eligible students processed
- 1,20,945
- Total district enrollment
- 2,41,230
- Students mapped
- 2,34,248
- Most affected block
- Khandwa, with 281 failed payments
- Second-most affected block
- Pandhana, with 161 failed payments
- Reported causes
- Incorrect bank account details, incorrect IFSC codes and Aadhaar-linked KYC issues









