| Scheme Name | Scheme Of Pre-Matric Scholarships To the Other Backward Classes |
| Objective | OBCs living below double the poverty line form a bigger chunk of a population and there are disparities amongst obcs themselves to start with, it is proposed to award scholarship to school going children of poorer OBC parents whose annual income is below double the poverty line. |
| Scheme Area | Education |
| Societal Group | OBC |
| Individual/Institutional | Individual |
| Central/State Level | Central |
| Govt/Non-Govt | Govt |
| Validity | The Scholarship Will Terminate At The End Of Class X. The Duration Of Scholarship In An Academic Year Will Be 10 Months. |
| Target Group | Obc Students Of Pre matric Class |
| Funds Available | – |
| Scholarship Amount | I.Hostelers: the students as hostlers will be covered from class III to X. class III to VII Rs.200/- per month for 10 months. class IX to X Rs.250/- per month for 10 months. II.Day scholars The students as day scholars will be covered from class I to class X. The rates of scholarships will be as under:- class I to V Rs.25/- per month for 10 months class VI to VIII Rs.40/- per month for 10 months class IX to X Rs.50/- per month for 10 months III. Ad-hoc grant an ad-hoc grant of Rs.500/- per student per anum to all students i.e. hostlers as well as day scholars will also be given. IV.The scholarship amount will be payable from the date of joining to the date of leaving the school, excluding the period of vacation, which will be about 10 months in a year except in the cases where the students enters late or leaves early in the midst of academic year. |
| Eligibility Criteria | Scholarship award will be sanctioned in the case of students whose parents/guardians income from all sources does not exceed Rs.44,500 per anum. note 1: so long as either of the parents (or husband in the case of married unemployed girl student) are alive, only income of the parents/husband, as the case may be, from all sources will be taken into account and of no other members even though they may be earning. in the form of income declaration, income will be declared on this basis. only in the case where both the parents (or husband in the case of married but unemployed girl student) have died,the income of the guardian who is supporting the student in his/her studies will have to be taken into consideration. such students whose parent’s income is affected due to unfortunate death of one of earning parents and resultantly comes within the income ceiling prescribed under the scheme, shall become eligible for scholarship, subject to their fulfilling other conditions of eligibility, from the month in which such sad incidence taken place. Applications for scholarships from such students can be considered even after lapse of last date of receipt of applications, on compassionate groundsnote 2: house rent allowance received by the parents of a student shall be exempted from the computation of ‘income’ if the same has been permitted to be exempted for purpose of income-tax. other eligibility condition’s. the students may not be allowed to take up employment or render help to parents in their work during the course of studies. II.The award will be discontinued if a student fails to secure annual promotion except in case of unavoidable reasons to be certified by the competent authority of the scheme. III.If a student violates school discipline or any other terms and conditions of the scholarship, scholarship may be suspended or even cancelled, subject to the satisfaction of the competent school authority. the state government/ union territory administrations can also directly cancel the award if duly satisfied of the reasons of violation of these regulations governing the scheme. IV.Migration of students from one institution to another would not normally be allowed during the course of academic year except under exceptional circumstances and in the interest of student’s academic career. V.The scholar obtaining benefits under this scheme shall not be allowed to avail of benefits under any other pre-matric scholarship scheme. VI.The students should be regular in attendance for which the yardstick shall be decided by the competent authority of the school. |
| Documents/Collateral Required | Income certificate ,obs certificate, |
| Departments | Ministry Of Social Justice And Empowerment |
| Dept Contacts | – |
| Imp Dates | Application Has To Be Submitted Before 05/09/2014 To The Head Of The Institutes |
| Forms Availability | – |
| Web URL for Details | http://socialjustice.nic.in/pre-matric.php |
| Online Process | – |
| Support Processes/ Institutions | – |