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Organization : General Education Department
Announcement : NMMS 2016-17 National Means-cum-Merit Scholarship
Applicable State : Kerala
Submission Last Date : 20-05-2016

NMMS Login :

Using Sampoorna User name and password for Login (DEO & schools).Exam held in Nov 2015

Related : SCERT Kerala NMMS 2015-16 : www.scholarships.net.in/3088.html

Last date for Entering Student details in NMMS 2016-17: 20-05-2016

About NMMS :
State Council of Educational Research & Training, Kerala shall be conducting the National-Means-cum-Merit Scholarship (NMMS) Examination for the class VIII.

The Scheme:
** Under this scheme, it is proposed to award 100,000 scholarships to the gifted or meritorious students whose parental income is not more than Rs.1,50,000/- per annum from all sources.
** Each State / UT shall have fixed quota of scholarship which will be decided on the basis of enrolment of students in Class VII and VIII in the State/UT concerned and population of children of concerned age group of class VII and VIII.
** The scheme would provide reservation to different categories of students as per the State / UT norms; as different States / UTs have their own norms of reservation.
** However, the total number of scholarships to a particular State/UT may be restricted to the allocation made by the Central Government.
** These scholarships will be provided quarterly to the students studying as regular students in class IX in government, local body and government-aided schools.
** The scholarships will be paid from class IX till class XII for a maximum period of four years.
** For fixing the scholarship to States / UTs, 2/3rd weightage would be given to enrolment of students in classes VII and VIII and 1/3rd weightage would be given to population of children of relative age group for class VII and VIII.
** For fixing the 2/3rd weightage on the basis of enrolment of students in classes VII and VIII. For fixing the 1/3rd weightage population figures as per 2001 census may be relied upon.
** Out of total scholarships each State / UT will be allocated a fixed number of scholarships on the basis of the criteria prescribed above.
** Each State / UT will further allocate their quota of scholarship district wise on similar basis.
** The amount of scholarship is proposed to be Rs.6000/- per annum @Rs.500/- per month.
** The State / UTs are already conducting the examination for nominating the students for the national level (second stage) examination conducted by the NCERT.
** The same examination shall be used for selection of candidates for the award of Means-cum-Merit Scholarships in the State / UT.