Central Sector Scheme of Scholarship for College and University Students
Objective
Since 2008, the Department of Higher Education has been implementing the “Central Sector Scheme of Scholarship for College and University Students.” The scheme’s goal is to give financial aid to deserving students to help them cover a portion of their day-to-day expenditures while pursuing higher education.
Central Sector Scheme of Scholarship for College and University Students is a merit-cummeans scholarship scheme.
Eligibility criteria
Students who scored more than 80% of successful applicants in a given board’s relevant stream in Class XII and are pursuing a regular course. Having an annual family income of less than Rs.6 lakh and not receiving any other scholarship.
Students who passed Class XII in the academic year 2016-17 and are in the top 20% of their respective Board’s Class XII results (SEB/CBSE/CISCE) merit list are eligible to apply for a new scholarship.
Those who do not appear on the merit list will be unable to apply for the CSSS scholarship programme.
Students who finished Class XII in 2015-16 and 2016-17 who were awarded a scholarship the previous year can apply for a second renewal on the National Scholarship Portal (http://scholarships.gov.in) (2015-16) and 1st renewal(2016-2017)
RESERVATION
Students belonging to reserved categories/weaker sections /minorities are eligible on the basis of merit, subject to Central Reservation Policy and internal earmarking.
Reservations for the various categories are as follows :
| Category | Reservation % |
|---|
| OBC | 27 |
| SC | 15 |
| ST | 7.5 |
| PWD | 5 |
Benefits
The scholarship amount is Rs. 10000/- per year for the first three years of college and university courses, and Rs. 20000/- per year for postgraduate degrees. In the fourth and fifth years, students pursuing professional degrees are paid Rs. 20,000/- per year.
ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE SCHEME AND SELECTION PROCEDURE
1) National Scholarship Portal (NSP) (https://www.scholarships.gov.in) will be opened for online application in the month of June-July every year.
2) Class XII pass out students of the current Academic Year, who are above 80th percentile of the respective State Education Boards (SEBs) are eligible under the scheme and can apply on National Scholarship Portal (https://scholarship.gov.in) before the cut-off date. Physical application would not be accepted.
3) The online applications would be verified at two levels:
(i) By the Institute where the student is studying.
(ii) By the respective State Education Board.
4) Applicants are required to submit requisite documents, such as [ Class 12th mark sheet, Income Certificate] to the Institute.
5) Applications which are not verified either by the institute or by the concerned State Education Board or by both will be treated as „Invalid‟.
6) Merit list as per the State allocated quota would be generated from the verified applications.
