Pre Matric Scholarships for Minority Community Students

The Ministry of Minority Affairs, GoI, has a scholarship scheme for students belonging to minority community.

Objectives

• Encourage parents from minority communities to send their children to school.
• Lighten their financial burden on school education.
• Sustain their efforts to support their children to complete school education.
• Empowerment of children through education.
• Upliftment of the socio-economic conditions of the minority communities.

Eligibility

• Scholarship will be awarded for students studying in India in any government/private school from class I to class X.
• Students of Minority community who have secured not less than 50% marks in the previous final examination are eligible to apply.
• Scholarship will not be given to more than two students from a family.
• A student shall be eligible for only one scholarship for all sources, i.e., SC/ST/OBC.
• Annual income of their parents/guardian from all sources does not exceed Rs. 1 lakh.

Benefits

Actual financial assistance will be provided for admission/tuition fee and maintenance allowance as given below-

Serial Number	Item	Hostelers	Day Scholars
1.	Admission fee from class VI to X	Rs.500 per annum subject to actual.	Rs.500 per annum subject to actual.
2.	Tuition fee from class VI to X	Rs.350 per month subject to actual.	Rs.350 per month subject to actual.
3.	Maintenance allowance is payable for a period not exceeding 10 months in an academic year.
	(i) Class I to V	Nil	Rs. 100 per month
	(ii) Class VI to X	Rs. 600 per month subject to actual.	Rs. 100 per month

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