scholarship

Nearly every state portal uses Aadhaar for registration and payment. Your bank account must also be seeded with Aadhaar for the money to reach you through Direct Benefit Transfer.

Yes. Students in Assam, Uttarakhand, Jammu and Kashmir, Meghalaya, Manipur, Arunachal Pradesh and six union territories apply on scholarships.gov.in, the National Scholarship Portal.

West Bengal, Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Chhattisgarh, Goa, Sikkim and Tripura all use multiple portals. The split is usually by category or by education level.

Seventeen states and union territories run their own portal. Seven states run more than one. Twelve states and UTs have no state portal and route applications through the National Scholarship Portal.

A state scholarship is money given by a state government to students of that state. The state fixes the eligibility rules, the amount and the portal where you apply.

A K3 applicant at the postgraduate level needs at least 45% aggregate in the undergraduate course. This is lower than the 53% needed by general postgraduate applicants in the Honours subject.

Apply for renewal within one month of admission to the next class. You need 60% aggregate at the undergraduate stage and 50% at the postgraduate stage, with the previous year cleared in the first attempt.

The monthly amount runs from INR 1,000 to INR 8,000. Higher Secondary and UG Arts students get INR 1,000 a month. Engineering and medical degree students get INR 5,000. Non-NET Ph.D. scholars get INR 8,000.

The family income should not be more than INR 2,50,000 per annum. Board toppers, Kanyashree K3 beneficiaries, M.Phil. scholars and Ph.D. scholars are exempt from this income ceiling.