Know about National Scholarship Portal

What is the National Scholarship Portal?

   National Scholarships Portal is one-stop solution through which various services starting from student application, application receipt, processing, sanction and disbursal of various scholarships to Students are enabled. National Scholarships Portal is taken as Mission Mode Project under National e-Governance Plan (NeGP) This initiative aims at providing a Simplified, Mission-oriented, Accountable, Responsive & Transparent 'SMART' System for faster & effective disposal of Scholarships applications and delivery of funds directly into beneficiaries account without any leakages.

 Why was the NSP created?

  The NSP initiative aims at providing a Simplified, Mission-oriented, Accountable, Responsive, and Transparent (SMART) System for faster & effective disbursal of scholarships applications and the delivery of funds directly into the beneficiaries’ account without any leakage.

The primary objectives for forming the NSP are:

• To ensure timely disbursement of scholarships to students.
• Provide a common portal for various scholarships schemes of Central & State Governments.
• Create a transparent database of scholars.
• Avoid duplication in processing.
• Harmonization of different scholarships schemes and norms.
• Application of direct benefit transfer.

How is NSP beneficial for students?

Some of the innumerable benefits of NSP for the students are:

1) Simplified process for students

• All scholarships information is made available under a common umbrella.
• Single integrated application for all scholarships

2) Improved Transparency

• The system suggests the schemes for which a student is eligible.
• Duplication is reduced to a great extent.

3) Helps in Standardization

• Master data for institutions and courses at pan India level.
• Processing of scholarships.

4) NSP serves as a decision support system (DSS) for various Ministries & Departments as updated information is available on demand.

5) Comprehensive MIS system to facilitate monitoring every stage of scholarships disbursal i.e. from the student registration to the delivery of funds.

List of Scholarship Offered under the National Scholarship Portal 

In this section, we’re listing down all the scholarships available through the National Scholarship Portal for the applications are open along with the last date for applying for these scholarships. For your benefit, we’ve categorized each of these scholarships with respect to the respective ministries under which they fall so that you can easily find the ones you’re looking for.

Schemes of Government

1. Central Scheme

     i. Department of Higher Education

•  Central Sector Scheme of Scholarships for college and university students

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    ii. Ministry of Minority Affairs

• Pre Matric Scholarships Scheme for Minorities
• Post Matric Scholarships Scheme for Minorities
• Merit Cum Means Scholarship For Professional and Techanical Courses CS 

     iii. Department of Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities

•   Pre-matric Scholarship for Students with Disabilities
•  Post-matric Scholarship for Students with Disabilities
•  Scholarships for Top Class Education for students with Disabilities  

        
  iv. Ministry of Social Justice and         Empowerment

•   Top Class Education Scheme for SC Students

   v. Ministry of Labour and Employment

• Ce Financial Assistance for Education of the Wards of   Beedi/Cine/IOMC/LSDM Workers - Post-Matric
• Financial Assistance for Education of the Wards of Beedi/Cine/IOMC/LSDM Workers - Pre-Matric
• Aam Aadmi Bima Yojna Scholarship for Andhra Pradesh Central Sector Scheme of Scholarships for college and university students

     vi. Ministory of Tribal Affairs

•  National Fellowship and Scholarship for Higher Education of ST Students - Scholarship

 vii. WARB Ministry of Home Affairs

•  National Scheme of Incentive to Girls for Secondary Education
• National Means Cum Merit Scholarship

viii. RPF/RPSF Ministry of Railway

•  Prime Minister's Scholarship Scheme For RPF/RPSF

ix.University Grants Commission

•  ISHAN UDAY - Special Scholarship Scheme For North Eastern Region 

2. UGC Scheme

i. University Grants  Commission -MHRD

•  PG Indira Gandhi Scholarship for Single Girl Child
• PG Scholarship for University Rank Holders (I and II Rank Holders)
• PG Scholarship Scheme for SC ST Students for persuing Professional Courses

3. AICTE Scheme

i. Ministory of Human Resoure Development -AICTE

•  Pragati  Scholarship Scheme for Girls (Degree) for Technical Education
• Pragati  Scholarship Scheme for  Girls (Diploma) for Technical Education
• Saksham Scholarship Sceheme for Differentially abled Students (Degree) for Technical Education
• Saksham Scholarship Scheme for Differentially abled Students (Diploma) for Technical Education

4.State Scheme

 There is stste scheme also for these states Bihar, Uttrakhand, Tripura, Karnatka, Meghalaya, Arunachal Pradesh .Here I will not discuss about that.

  Applications for the Academic year 2018-19 - Opening soon

  To know more click https://scholarships.gov.in