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Punjab minorities minister exhorts students to derive benefits from state scholarship schemes

UNI, Chandigarh | Published : 11th August 2018

Punjab Social Justice, Empowerment and Minorities Minister Sadhu Singh Dharamsot today exhorted the students of minority community studying in various institutions of the state to derive full benefit from the scholarship schemes to achieve their goals in life.

The Minister said that the students of the state belonging to the Sikh, Muslim, Christian, Buddhist, Parsi and Jain communities can apply online for getting scholarships under the post matric scholarship scheme. He also said that during the academic session 2018-19, the students can apply online for the new/renewal applications till September 30, 2018 through online mode.

He said that the students of the Government, Private, Aided schools, colleges as well as universities besides those from the residential institutions, polytechnic colleges, ITIs and Industrial Training Centers can submit their online applications on the national scholarship portal www.scholarships.gov.in. He said that this scheme is 100 per cent centrally sponsored.

Mr Dharamsot said that for attaining the benefit of the post matric scholarship those students are eligible to apply whose family income is Rs two lakh annually, must be a permanent resident of Punjab, Regular Student and secured at least 50 per cent marks in the previous examination. He also said that not more than two students from a single family would be eligible to be benefitted from the scholarship scheme whereas the student deriving benefit under this scholarship would not be eligible to take such a benefit from any other scheme of the either the Punjab or the Union Government.

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