NIT Warangal: Apply for National Scholarship Portal by December 31

Fresh Scholarship will be awarded only to 1st year students, students of 2nd/3rd/4th year will not be eligible for selection for fresh Scholarship.

The Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment has issued fresh and renewal scholarships notification for the scheme “Central Sector Scholarship Scheme for Top Class Education for SC students.” for the academic year 2023-24. 

The detail is available at https://scholarships.gov.in/. 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.

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.

Eligibility Criteria for National Scholarship Portal

• As per the official notification, the following are the eligibility requirements:
• Family Annual Income from all sources up to 8 Lakh.
• The Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment, New Delhi has fixed only 16 slots to the NIT Warangal, accordingly the Top (16) SC fresh students are only eligible to award of the scholarship based on their institute admitted ranks only (CRL (All India Rank) ranks not category ranks) for the admitted 1st-year students for the academic year 2023-24.
• Fresh Scholarship will be awarded only to 1st year students, students of 2nd/3rd/4th year will not be eligible for selection for fresh Scholarship.
• If there is more than one student with equal ranks to the last eligible slot then preference shall be given to the student with the lowest family income.
• Thirty per cent (30%) of slots allotted to this institute shall be reserved for eligible SC girls as per their Merit ranks.
• However, the 30% slots mentioned above will not include those female students who are selected based on performance in the overall merit list of SC fresh Students of the Institute.

The scholarships once awarded, will continue till the completion of the course subject to satisfactory performance of the student. (for the renewal students only ). The scholarship shall be terminated if the student fails to get promoted to the next semester or year. However, once such a student gets promoted to the next class, the scholarship shall be released suo moto. 

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