Name of the Organisation : Government of Bihar Minority Welfare Department (minoritywelfare.bih.nic.in)
Name of the Scholarship : Maulana Azad National Scholarship For Meritorious Girl Students Belonging To Minorities 2013
Location : India
Website : http://minoritywelfare.bih.nic.in/
Maulana Azad National Scholarship For Meritorious Girl Students Belonging To Minorities :
Manulana Azad Education Foundation was established on the occasion of Maulana Abul Kalam Azad’s birth centenary. The Foundation was registered under the Societies Registration Act 1860, on 6th July, 1989. The Foundation is a voluntary non-political, nonprofit marking social service organisation established to promote education amongst the educationally backward sections of the society. It is funded by the Ministry of Social Justice & Empowerment, Government of India. The Hon’ble Minister (Incharge wakf) is its Ex-officio President. The aim of the Foundation is to formulate, implement educational schemes and plans for the benefit of the educationally backward minorities in particular and weaker sections in general.
Objective of the Scheme :
To recognize, promote and assist meritorious Girl students belonging to national Minorities who can not continue their education without financial support.
Purpose of Scholarship :
Sholarship will be admissible for expenditure on Payment of School/College Fee, purchase of syllabus books, purchase of stationery/equipments required for the course & payment of Boarding/Lodging charges.
Eligibility Criterion/ Who Can Apply:
Only Girl Students belonging to National Minorities, i.e., Muslims, Christians, Buddists, Sikhs, Parsees and
i) Family income of the student from all sources should be less than Rs. 1,00,000/** (Rupees one lakh only) in the preceding financial year. Income of the parent/guardian is one of the basic criteria for award of Scholarship.
Therefore :
** In case of salaried class, the student must indicate the designation, pay-scale, basic pay and other allowances along with total gross and take home emoluments of the parent/guardian. A mere statement saying “Service” will not be acceptable. The student must attach a salary Certificate or Pension Certificate (in case of retired persons) of her parent/guardian along with the application.
** In case of agriculture/horticulture etc., the students has to mention total land holding with details of irrigated and non-irrigateed and other landed property owned by her family along with total income of the family. These details will also be mentioned in the affidavit of the parent/guardian/in the certificate from Revenue authority, as the case may be,
** In case of business class, the student must categorically state the name and type of the business alongwith the total turn over and the total income of family. The same details will also be stated in the Affidavit from her parent/guardian.
** Income from all other sources must also be mentioned, specially if mother is also employed in business.
** It must be noted that all income certificate and statements made by the students in the application is subject to further verification of Maulana Azad Education Foundation. In case of any deliberate discrepancy/concealment of facts, the MAEF may initiate necessary action as per law.
** The income certificate/affidavit must be from the parents guardian’s side and should have been issued from the respective home station. The income certificate issued or affidavit made from the place where the student is studying, as against the home station, will NOT be acceptable (in case of photocopy, it should be attested by Gazetted Officer or Head of Institution).
ii) Should have appeared in any of recognized Centre/State Board of Secondary Education and have secured not less than 55% marks (in aggregate) in the secondary school certificate examination. List of 33 reconized Boards/Councils is given in Annexure-l.
iii) Have confirmed admission in class-XI/1 st year Dip. Engineering/1 st year ITI is must. However application for scholarship can be made in anticipation of admission.
iv) The University/College/Institute offering admission should be recognized by the Government at the Central or State level or any other competent authority.
v) It is one time scholarship, and no claim as permanent beneficiary will be entertained. Student once selected for scholarship can not avail the same again.
vi) A student getting a scholarship from any other source would not be eligible for the scholarship.
vii) To verify the correctness of the details furnished by the applicants, the concerned State Government would be involved by getting the application sponsored through them. Direct application to the foundation will also be entertainet.
viii) To avoid delay in sanction of the scholarship on account of delay in receipt of proposals from some States/ UTs, the proposals received from States/UTs would be processed immediately after the prescribed time limit without waiting for proposals from the defaulting States/UTS.
ix) If the target of a particular minority community group in a State/UT is not fulfilled in a given year, then it would be carried forward for a period of two years and if sufficient number of candidates of that minority community group are consistently not available, than that backlog quota would be appropriated against some other community of that State/UT after obtaining prior approval of the Central Government.
x) The minimum qualifying marks for the scholarship will be 55%.
xi) Adequate publicity shall be given for the scheme through print/audio/visual media.
xii) The last date for receipt of application in the office of the Maulana Azad Education Foundation is September 30th every year, which must be adhered to.
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