Value of Scholarship

(i) Maintenance Allowance:

(ii) Additional Provision for ST students with disabilities

(iii) Fees

(iv) Study Tours

(v) Thesis Typing/Printing Charges

(vi) Correspondence courses including distance and continuing education

1. The scholarships are open to nationals of India.
2. These scholarships will be given for the study of all recognized post-matriculation post-secondary courses pursued in recognized institutions.
3. Only those candidates who belong to Scheduled Tribes so specified in relation to the State/Union Territory to which the applicant actually belongs (i.e. permanently settled) and who have passed the Matriculation or Higher Secondary or any higher examination of a recognized University or Board of Secondary Education, will be eligible.
4. Students studying in Class XI of Higher Secondary Schools which have a continuous school course of 12th class will not be eligible. However, in cases where the X class examination of such courses is treated as equivalent to Matriculation and students after passing the tenth class can join other courses, such students will be treated as post-matric students and will be eligible for the award of scholarships.
5. Students pursuing post-graduate courses in medicine will be eligible if they are not allowed to practice during the period of their course.
6. Students who after failing or passing the undergraduate/post-graduate examinations in Arts/Science/Commerce join any recognized professional or technical certificate/diploma/degree courses will be awarded scholarships if otherwise eligible. No subsequent failure will be condoned except for courses in Group ‘I’, and no further change in the course will be allowed.
7. Students who pursue their studies through correspondence courses are also eligible. The term correspondence includes distant and continuing education.
8. Employed students who take leave without pay for the entire duration of the course and study as full-time students will be eligible for scholarships.
9. From the academic year 1980-81, employed students whose income combined with the income of their parents/guardians does not exceed the maximum prescribed income ceiling are made eligible for post-matric scholarships to the extent of reimbursement of all compulsorily payable non-refundable fees.
10. All children of the same parents/guardians will be entitled to receive the benefits of the scheme.
11. A scholarship holder under this scheme will not hold any other scholarship/stipend.
12. If awarded any other scholarship/stipend, the student can exercise his/her option for either of the two scholarships/stipends, whichever is more beneficial to him/her, and should inform the awarding authority through the Head of the Institution about the option made. No scholarship will be paid to the students under this scheme from the date he/she accepts another scholarship/stipend. The student can, however, accept free lodging or a grant or Adhoc monetary help from the State Government or any other source for the purchase of books, and equipment or for meeting the expenses on board and
13. lodging in addition to the scholarship amount paid under this scheme.

Income Criteria

1. Scholarships are not awarded for training courses like Aircraft Maintenance Engineer Courses and Private Pilot Licence courses, courses at Training – Ship Dufferin (Now Rajendra), courses of training at the Military College, Dehradun, and courses at pre-examination training centers of all India and State levels.
2. Candidates who after passing one stage of education are studying in the same stage of education in a different subject e.g. I.Sc after I.A. or B.Com after B.A. or M.A. in other subjects will not be eligible.
3. Students who, after having completed their educational career in one professional line, wish to study for another profession e.g. LLB after B.T./B.Ed. will not be eligible. From the academic year 1980-81, however, studies in two professional courses are allowed.
4. Students who have already received coaching in any of the pre-examination training centers with financial assistance from the Government will not be eligible.

1. An application for a scholarship should comprise:
2. One copy of the application for scholarship in the prescribed form (separate application forms have been prescribed for ‘fresh’ and renewal scholarships by concerned States/UTs).
3. One copy of the passport-size photograph with signatures of the student thereon (for fresh scholarship).
4. One attested copy of certificates, diplomas, degrees, etc. in respect of all examinations passed.
5. A certificate (in original) of Caste duly signed by an authorized Revenue Officer not below the rank of Tahsildar.
6. An income declaration by the self-employed parents/guardians, stating definite income from all sources through an affidavit on nonjudicial stamp paper. Employed parents/guardians are required to obtain an income certificate from their employer and for any additional income from other sources, they would furnish a declaration by way of an affidavit on non-judicial stamp paper.
7. A receipt in acknowledgment of the scholarship in the previous year on the form attached to the application only duly counter-signed by the Head of the Institution concerned if the applicant was in receipt of a scholarship under this scheme in the preceding year.