Govt Schemes and Programs

Name of Scheme

Scheme of prematric scholarship for students belonging to minorty communities

Type of Scheme

Scholarship,fellowship

Sector

Education

Name of Ministry

Ministry of Minority Affairs

About the Scheme

The scholarship at pre-matric level will encourage parents from minority communities to send their school going children to school, lighten their financial burden on school education and sustain their efforts to support their children to complete school education. The scheme will form the foundation for their educational attainment and provide a level playing field in the competitive employment arena. Empowerment through education, which is one of the objectives of this scheme, has the potential to lead to upliftment of the socio economic conditions of the minority communities (scholarships.gov.in, n.d.).

Benefits Under the Scheme

The scholarship will be awarded for studies in India in a government or private school from class I to class X, including such residential Government institutes and eligible private institutes selected and notified in a transparent manner by the State Government and Union Territory Administration concerned (Ministry of Minority Affairs, n.d.)." "Actual financial assistance will be provided for admission/tuition fee and maintenance allowance(Ministry of Minority Affairs, n.d.). Admission fee from class VI to X for hostellers Rs. 500 per annum and for day scholars Rs. 500 per annum. tuition fee from class VI to X is Rs. 350 per month for hostellers and day scholars. maintenence allowance is payable for not exceeding than a period of 10 months in an academic year. the maintainence allowance for class 1st to V for day scholars is Rs. 100 per month and for class VI to X is Rs. 600 per month for hostellers and Rs. 100 per month for day scholars.

Eligibility Criteria

Students having not less than 50% marks in the previous final examination and whose parents’/guardians’ income from all sources does not exceed Rs.2 lakhs are eligible for award of a post-matric scholarship.

Concerned Agency Institutions

State government

Name Of Person

n.a.

Designation

Under Secretary

Address

11th Floor, Pandit Deendayal Antyodaya Bhawan, CGO Complex, Lodhi Road, New Delhi-110003

Email

suresh.yadav25@nic.in

Phone

24364311, Intercom number: 222

Fax

n.a.

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Additional Information

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