Post Matric Scholarship Scheme for Minority Students in India, Post Matric Scholarship Scheme from Indian Government.The Prime Ministers New 15 Point Programme for the Welfare of Minorities was announced in June, 2006. It provides that a post-matric scholarship scheme for meritorious students from minority communities would be implemented.
The objective of the scheme is to award scholarships to meritorious students belonging to economically weaker sections of minority community so as to provide them better opportunities for higher education, increase their rate of attainment in higher education and enhance their employability.
The scholarship is to be awarded for studies in India in a government or private higher secondary school/college/university, including such residential institutes of the Government and eligible private institutes selected and notified in a transparent manner by the State Government/Union Territory Administration concerned.
It will also cover technical and vocational courses in Industrial Training Institutes/ Industrial Training Centres affiliated with the National Council for Vocational Training (NCVT) of classes XI and XII level. Scholarship will be awarded to the students who have secured not less than 50% marks or equivalent grade in the previous final examination and the annual income of whose parents/guardian from all sources does not exceed Rs.2 lakh.
Muslims, Sikhs, Christians, Buddhists and Zoroastrians (Parsis) have been notified as minority communities under Section 2 (c) of the National Commission for Minorities Act, 1992. The distribution of scholarship among the States/Union Territories will be made on the basis of population of the above notified minorities in the States/ Union Territories of Census 2001.
30% of scholarship for Minority Indians will be earmarked for girl students. In case sufficient number of eligible girl students are not available, then the balance earmarked scholarships may be awarded to eligible boy students.
Unlike scholarship for SC and ST, there are a fixed number of scholarships for minorities is small and limited. Students from BPL families, having the lowest income shall be given preference in the ascending order. The renewal applications would be fully exhausted before the new applications are considered. Scholarship will be provided for the entire course. However, maintenance allowance will be given for a period not exceeding 10 months only in an academic year.
Applications are invited from the students belonging to the minority communities notified by the Central Government pursuing higher education, from class XI upto Ph. D in Government recognised private school / college / institute in including technical / vocational courses of Industrial Training Institutes / Industrial Training centre (affiliated with NCVT) of class XI & XII level and the courses other than covered under merit-cum means based scholarship scheme (list appended) post-metric scholarship to be awarded by the Ministry of Minority affairs, Government of India. Application in the prescribed format given at the end of the advertisement shall be submitted by the student to the Secretary, Department of Higher and Technical Education ,Mantralaya ,Mumbai -through the Head of the school/college/institute being attended by the student.Scope: The scholarship is to be awarded for studies in India only. Conditions for scholarship : (a) To be eligible, students should have not less than 50% marks in the previous final examination. (b) The annual income, from all sources, of the student' parent or guardian should not exceed Rs. 2 Lakh. Students from BPL families, having the lowest income shall be given preference in the ascending order. (c) A scholarship holder under this scheme will not avail of any other scholarship / stipend for pursuing the same course. (d) Scholarships will not be given to more than two student in a family. (e) 30% of scholarships will be earmarked for girl students. In case girl students are not available then the scholarships earmarked for them will be awarded to eligible boy students. (f) Maintenance allowances will be credited to the student's bank account.
