
The government has simplified the process of awarding scholarships to students. Also, students can apply for various scholarships under the Chief Minister’s Meritorious Students Promotion Scheme. E-Scholarship, Byasakabi Fakir Mohan Medha Scholarship and Gopbandhu Education Assistance Scheme can be applied at one website i.e. www.schlorship.odisha.gov.in. The guidelines regarding this have been issued by the Department of Higher Education on Friday.
The Chief Minister’s meritorious student promotion scheme has been implemented from the current academic year. It has increased the size of e-scholarships. The amount of scholarship has also increased with the increase in the number of students receiving scholarships. The annual income of the beneficiary’s family has been increased from 6 lakhs to 8 lakhs. Now, a middle class child can get the benefit of scholarship. A total of 25 thousand students will be provided with scholarships. Under the e-scholarship, 5,000 undergraduate (UG) students were previously given a scholarship of Rs 5,000 annually. Now 10 thousand students will get 10 thousand rupees per year.
Similarly, instead of 35,00 students in PG, 5000 students will get an annual scholarship of Rs.15,000 which was 10 thousand rupees previously. In the field of technical education, earlier 3500 UG level and 2500 PG level technical students were getting Rs 10,000 scholarship. But now 10 thousand vocational students will get scholarship of 20 thousand rupees each. All colleges, universities, technical institutes, medical colleges and hospitals, national professional institutes have been informed by the higher education department.