Scholarship Schemes

 The Ministry of Minority Affairs implements three Scholarship Schemes viz. Pre-Matric, Post-Matric and Merit-cum-Means based Scholarship Schemes for the educational empowerment of students belonging to economically weaker sections of the six notified minority communities i.e. Buddhist, Christian, Jain, Muslim, Parsi and Sikh in all States/UTs across the country. A total of thirty (30) lakh Pre-Matric, 5 lakh Post Matric and 60,000 Merit-cum-Means scholarships are targeted to be distributed as ‘Fresh’ Scholarships every year, besides, Renewal scholarships. The  three  scholarship  schemes are  being  implemented  through  the  National  Scholarship  Portal  (NSP)  and are  being  disbursed  under  direct  benefit  transfer (DBT)  mode  to  improve  the  efficiency  and  bring  transparency  by  removing duplicity  and  stopping  pilferages.  

 

The details of number of applications received, verified by States/UTs and sanctioned by the Ministry of Minority Affairs under the above mentioned schemes during 2016-17 to 2021-22 are as under:

 

Year		Pre-Matric Scholarship
		Number of verified applications received		Number of applications Sanctioned
2016-17		74,25,553		41,53,524
2017-18		85,70,708		53,11,257
2018-19		86,88,465		56,91,854
2019-20		70,84,410		55,68,025
2020-21*		60,38,248		52,29,148
2021-22**		78,29,283		24,05,498
Total		4,56,36,667		2,83,59,306
Post-Matric Scholarship Scheme
	2016-17		13,65,838		6,24,990
	2017-18		14,07,780		6,98,069
	2018-19		12,80,958		6,84,265
	2019-20		11,24,202		7,43,141
	2020-21*		11,61,252		6,62,912
	2021-22**		9,91,534		1,38,105
	Total		73,31,564		35,51,482
	Merit-cum-Means based Scholarship Scheme
	2016-17		189584		121937
	2017-18		180421		119472
	2018-19		180274		117771
	2019-20		145398		118359
	2020-21*		137340		120208
	2021-22**		118351		52720
	Total		9,51,368		6,50,467

   *   Disbursement of Scholarships for 2020-21 continues in 2021-22.

** It includes sanction for finally verified renewal applications of 2021-22 only. Disbursement for fresh application 2021-22 is yet to begin.

(d):  The details of budget allocated and released under the above mentioned schemes from 2016-17 to 2021-22 are as under:-

(In ₹ Crore)

Scheme	Pre-Matric		Post Matric		Merit-Cum-Means
Year	Budget Allocated	Amount Released	Budget Allocated	Amount Released	Budget Allocated	Amount Released
2016-17	931.00	585.94	550.00	287.11	335.00	220.54
2017-18	950.00	1108.13	550.00	479.72	393.54	388.79
2018-19	980.00	1176.19	692.00	354.89	522.00	261.17
2019-20	1220.30	1324.84	496.01	428.77	366.43	285.63
2020-21	1330.00	1325.54	535.00	512.81	400.00	396.34
2021-22	1378.00	474.52*	468.00	80.58*	325.00	134.09*
Total	6789.30	5995.16	3291.01	2143.88	2341.97	1686.56

*Expenditure as on 31.01.2022.