Post-Matric Scholarship for Scheduled Tribes Students

The objective of the scheme is to provide financial assistance to students belonging to Scheduled Tribes pursuing recognized Post-Matriculation courses in recognized institutions.  The scheme covers professional, technical as well as non-professional and non-technical courses at various levels and also includes correspondence courses including distance and continuing education.  The Scheme has now been revised w.e.f. 01-07-2010.  The revision included changes in (i) income ceiling; (ii) grouping of courses; and (iii) rates of maintenance and other allowances and (iv) additional Committed Liability arising on account of the revision of the Scheme w.e.f. 01.07.2010 shall be passed on to the States/UTs at the end of the XII Five Year Plan (w.e.f. 01.04.2017) and not at the end of the XI Plan.  The scheme is implemented by the State Government and UT Administrations, which receive 100% Central Assistance over and above the committed liability which is required to be borne by them from their own budgetary provisions.  The committed liability of each State is equal to the expenditure reached in the last year of the Plan period.  The requirement of committed liability of North Eastern States has been dispensed with from 1997-98.

                                                 The value of the existing scholarship includes compulsory non-refundable fees charges by the educational institutions, maintenance allowance, reader charges of blind students, study tour charges, thesis typing/printing charges, book allowance to students pursuing correspondence course and The maintenance allowance for Hostelers is between Rs. 380/- p.m. to Rs. 1200/- and for Day Scholars from Rs. 230/- p.m. to Rs. 500/- p.m., depending upon the level of courses.  The prescribed annual income ceiling of both the parents/guardians, under the scheme is up to Rs. 2,50,000/-, as applicable w.e.f. 01-04-2013. The income ceiling has been linked with the consumer price index for industrial workers.

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