scholarship
The Online applications are invited for “Central Sector Scheme for Scholarship for College and university students” for the year 2018, 1st Renewal for the year 2017, 2nd renewal for the year 2016 and 3rd Renewal for the year 2015 is available on National Scholarship Portal (scholarship.gov.in).
Students may visit the National Scholarship Portal to apply for fresh; renewal of scholarship.
The last date for submission of online application form for renewal and for fresh scholarship 2018 is 31.10.2018.
All the candidates are advised to apply online within the stipulated time and get their online applications verified by the institutions (if required show the original documents to institute) else the application would be treated as invalid.
About the Scheme:
The “Central Sector Scheme of Scholarship for College and University Students” is implemented by the Department of Higher Education since 2008.
The objective of the scheme is to provide financial assistance to the meritorious students, to meet a part of their day-to-day expenses while pursuing higher studies.
Eligibility criteria
Central Sector Scheme of Scholarship for College and University Students is a merit-cum-means scholarship scheme.
- Students who are above 80 percentile of successful candidates in the relevant stream from a particular Board of Examination in Class XII.
- Pursuing a regular course.
- Having a family income of less than Rs.6 lakh per annum.
- Not receiving any other scholarship.
The scholarship is renewed on year to year up to Post Graduate level in the same stream.
For all professional courses, the scholarship will be renewed till the Graduation level.
For all the courses the scholarship would be renewed up to a maximum of five (5) years.
The renewal of scholarship is further subject to the student meeting the following criteria:
(i) Secured 60 % or more marks for the two preceding semesters or annual examination which determines his/her promotion to the next class,
(ii) maintenance of attendance of at least 75 % by the scholars and
(iii) maintenance of discipline i.e. the scholars should not have been involved in any ragging activities.
Who Can Apply: Students who have completed Class-XII in the Academic Year 2016-17 and who are in the top 20th percentile merit list of Class-XII results of concerned Board (SEB/CBSE/CISCE) are eligible to apply for a fresh scholarship.
Those who are not covered in the merit list would not be able to choose the CSSS scholarship scheme.
Students who have completed Class-XII in 2015-16 and 2016-17 and who have received the scholarship for the previous year can apply on the National Scholarship Portal scholarships.gov.in for 2nd renewal (2015-16) and 1st renewal (2016-17).
