Availing benefits of scholarship schemes

20/01/2020

In order to avoid unnecessary hassle being faced by the students and to ensure their 100% enrolment, the Government of Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir is shortly going to simplify the procedure for availing the benefits of various scholarship schemes. Under the new mechanism, the number of documents required to be produced at the time of submission of the application forms will be reduced.The Scheme is in operational since 2008. The objective of the scheme is to provide financial assistance to the meritorious students having family income of less than Rs.6 lakh per annum, to meet a part of their day-to-day expenses while pursuing higher studies. Annual target is 82000 scholarships per year (41000 for boys and 41000 for girls) which has been divided amongst the State Education Boards based on the State's population in the age group of 18-25 years. Students who are above 80th percentile of successful candidates in the relevant stream from a particular Board of Examination in class XII and pursuing regular course and not availing benefit of any other scholarships, are eligible to apply under this Scheme. The rate of scholarship is Rs. 10,000/- per annum for the first three years and Rs. 20,000/- per annum for the fourth and fifth year.
During the past quite long time the Government was receiving inputs from various quarters that students were facing undue harassment and difficulties in obtaining benefits of various scholarship schemes due to the complex procedure in vogue during the past many decades. There were complaints that there was no need of seeking some documents as mentioned in the checklist and this aspect was creating more problems for the students desirous to avail the benefits of such schemes. It was due to complicated procedure that 100% enrolment under the scholarship schemes could not be ensured by the successive Governments in Jammu and Kashmir.
Now, the Government of Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir has constituted a committee to suggest measures for effective implementation of scholarship schemes across Jammu and Kashmir. The committee has started analyzing the difficulties being faced by the students particularly with regard to obtaining of various documents-income certificate, reservation certificate etc for availing benefits under various scholarship schemes. Efforts should be made to check the duplication of scholarship schemes and make the procedure for applying for different schemes through single web portal as large number of students could not obtain the benefits of these scholarship schemes because of procedural complications.

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