Centrally Sponsored National Means-Cum-Merit Scholarship Scheme

Centrally Sponsored National Means-Cum-Merit Scholarship Scheme

Scholarship

This scheme is proposed to award 1,00,000 scholarships to the gifted or meritorious students whose parental income is not more than Rs 1,50,000/- per annum from all sources. Each State /UT shall have fixed quota of scholarship which will be decided on the basis of enrolment of students in Class VII and VIII in the State/UT concerned and population of children of concerned age group of class VII and VIII.

Important Dates

Eligibility

1. An Awardee is eligible for the scholarship provided he/she:
   1. Takes up studies in approved courses
   2. Maintains good conduct as certified by the Head of the College/Institution and continues his/her studies as a regular student in Government/Local Body/Government aided school.
   3. Does not absent himself/herself without proper leave.
   4. Takes up studies on a whole time basis.
   5. Does not take up any job.
2. No scholarship shall be available for studies abroad for any course.
3. No claim for scholarship arrears will be entertained after the expiry of 12 months of the academic session for which one has applied for the claim.
4. In case any awardee leaves his/her course of study within one month of registration/admission, no scholarship shall be paid to him/her.
5. In case awardee is not able to appear at the annual examination due to serious illness, one should send the medical certificate through the Head of the Institution within three months of one’s falling ill. The duration of illness should be clearly certified by a specialist, who is a Registered Medical Practitioner. The facility will be available to the awardee to continue the same course in which one is studying provided the principal or the head of the institution certifies that the overall performance of the awardee during the year is 50% or above.
6. The awardee must join the next class/desired course within 3 months of the declaration of the result of the previous class/course.
7. Scholarship shall be deemed to be discontinued with any gap of one academic session in studies at any time due to any reason.
8. Scholarship once discontinued on the basis of the rules of disbursement of scholarship cannot be revived under any circumstances.
9. All rules are subject to change from time to time, as and when required, which will be binding on all awardees.

How to Apply

Scheme details advertised in News papers and for selecting the students for this scheme, the first level examination already conducted by the States/UTs for the NCERT’s, NTS Scheme may be utilized with the following conditions.

1. Registration of students for Means-cum-Merit Scholarship Scheme may be made separately from the registration of students made for NTS Scheme.
2. The students shall have minimum of 55% marks or equivalent grade in Class VII examination for appearing in selection test for award of scholarship (Relaxable by 5% for SC/ST).
3. The students should be studying as regular student in government, local body and government-aided schools.
4. Parental income of the students should not be more than Rupees One lakh Fifty Thousand per annum from all sources.

The examination will be conducted along with the first stage examination of NTS for class VIII students

Last Date

The last date for application is

Contact Details

Shri Madhu Ranjan Kumar
Joint Secretary
Shastri Bhawan
New Delhi – 110001