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Organization : Minorities & Other Backward Classes Welfare Department
Scholarship Name : Pre-Matric Scholarship To OBC/Minority Students
State: Manipur

Website : https://manipurobcsc.mn.gov.in/
FAQ : https://manipurobcsc.mn.gov.in/

Pre-Matric Scholarship To OBC :

This is a 50:50 sharing scheme between Central and state Government. An amount of Rs.75.00 lakhs (State Share) and Central Share of Rs. 65.37 lakhs were released for the year 2006-07 and the same was utilized to benefit 39,945 OBC students. An amount of Rs.100.00 lakhs state share and Rs.16.64 lakhs was utilized during 2007-08.

Related / Similar Scholarship : Manipur Post Matric Scholarship

Proposal for the remaining Rs.83.36 lakhs Central share had already been sent to the concerned Central Ministry. An amount of Rs. 75.00 lakhs as State Share and Rs. 125.00 lakhs as Central Share was expended during 2008-09 benefiting 57325 OBC students. An amount of Rs.125.00 lakhs as central share and Rs. 107 .00 lakhs as State share are proposed for 2009-2010.

Providing Scholarship to OBC students under Pre-Matric Scholarship(50:50)- State share :Central share) continued benefiting 113464 OBC students Target for 2009-10 is to benefit 55000 OBC students. Post-Matric Scholarship to Minority Students under Ministry of MoMA (100% central share)started implementing in the state . 267 Muslims students and 773 Christian students were benefited so far. Target for 2009-10 is to benefit 4287 Minority students.

Students under Ministry of MoMA (75 :25-Ccentral share: State share)started implementing in the state . 400 Muslim and 1560 Christian students were benefited so far. Target for 2009-10 is to benefit 12740 Minority students.

Pre-Matric Scholarship Scheme for Minority Communities:
The objective of the scheme is to encourage parents from minority communities to send their school going children to school, lighten their financial burden on school education and sustain their efforts to support their children to complete school education.

Pre-matric scholarship scheme for minority communities provides the scholarship to students from class I to X studying in Government/ recognised private schools/ institutes in India. (See website:-www.minorityaffairs.gov.in)

Who is eligible to apply for the pre-matric scholarship?:
Students belonging to Muslim/ Christian/ Sikh/ Buddhist/ Parsi who has secured not less than 50% marks in previous final examination and the annual income of his/her parents/ guardians from all sources not exceeding Rs. 1 lakh, can apply for the pre-matric scholarship in the prescribed application to the Department dealing with minority welfare of his/her State/UT, on advertisement published by the State Government/ Union Territory Administration concerned.

How is the pre-matric scholarship amount disbursed to the students?:
State Government/ Union Territory Administration concerned or their designated agencies disburse the maintenance allowance to the student’s bank accounts, and admission and course/ tuition fee to the bank account of School/ Institute concerned

Do you have a suggestion?:
Email:- prematric-mma@nic.in
Fax:- 011-24364279