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About The Scholarship
The National Scheme of Incentive to Girls for Secondary Education promotes the girl child’s enrolment of 14-18 years age group at secondary stage, who passes class 8th and subsequently drops out for various socio-economic reasons. The proposed scheme is further intended to retain such girl children up to class 12th. In the year 2004-05, the dropout rate of girls from classes 1st to 8th was about 50.8%. For classes 1st to 10th the dropout rate of girls was about 64% in the same year. Hence, only 36% of the country’s girl students could be retained up to class 10th. This is the combined result of several socio-economic factors, but a major contributor is no doubt the inability of the parents to afford the cost of education of the girl child.
National Scheme of Incentives to Girls for Secondary Education
Eligibility
Award
- The applicant should be a girl child.
- The applicant should be from Scheduled Caste / Scheduled Tribe SC/ST
- The applicant should have passed class 8th from Kasturba Gandhi Balika Vidhalayas (irrespective of whether they belong to Scheduled Castes or Tribes)
- The applicant should have enrolled for class 9th in State/UT Government, Government-aided, or local body schools in the academic year 2008-09 onwards.
- A sum of ₹3000/- would be deposited under term deposit/ fixed deposit in a public sector bank or in a post office in the name of every eligible girl child. The term/ period of the deposit may be counted from the date of deposit to the date on which the girl child attains the age of 18 years. No premature withdrawal will be allowed.
Required Documents
Mode of Apply
- Scanned copy of the applicant’s Aadhaar card
- Domicile Certificate
- Income certificate of the parents or the legal guardian (issued by the respective state government or UT administration authorities)
- Class 10th scorecard of the applicant
- Certificate from the school head or the principal mentioning two-year continuation after her enrolment to Class 9th
- Fees receipts of the current class
- Bank account proof of the applicant’s existing account or joint account with any one of her parents
- Disability certificate (if applicable)
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