UGC Ishan Uday Scholarship Scheme 2020-2021 for NER: Revised merit list released

All those students who had applied for the Ishan Uday Special Scholarship for North East Region are advised to go to ugc.ac.in and check the state-wise merit list.

The University Grants Commission has released the revised merit list of all those students who have been provisionally selected for the Ishan Uday Scholarship Scheme. All those students who had applied for the Ishan Uday Special Scholarship for North East Region are advised to go to ugc.ac.in and check the state-wise merit list. It must be noted that the revised merit list has been released by UGC for all those students who had applied for the 2020-21 academic year. The merit list was earlier released in July 2021, however, after noticing some discrepancies, it has decided to release the revised list.

The registration of the UGC Ishan Uday Scholarship 2021-22 will close on January 15, 2021.

“The merit lists for 'Ishan Uday Special Scholarship Scheme for NER' -2020-21 was generated in July 2021. However, it was noticed that there were some discrepancies in the merit lists. The selections were reviewed and revised State-wise merit -lists of provisional selected candidates are given at Annexures I to VIII,” the commission said in official notification.

Ishan Uday is a special scholarship scheme for the students of the North East Region (NER) of India. UGC started distributing it from the 2014-15 academic year. Now, applications are hosted on the National Scholarship Portal (NSP).

The scholarship aims to provide equal opportunities to students of the North East for higher studies, increase the Gross Enrolment Ratio (GER) and focus more on professional education in the region. Every year, 10,000 scholarships are distributed to eligible students from the region.

Amount of Scholarship: Rs 5,400 per month for general degree courses and Rs 7,800 per month for technical, medical, professional, paramedical courses.

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