Registration begins for PM’s scholarship scheme
Tribune News Service
Jammu, April 21
The All-India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) has started the process for registration of students from Jammu and Kashmir for the Prime Minister’s Special Scholarship Scheme (PMSSS).
The online registration under the scheme for academic session 2017-18 will be open till May 15.
Students having domicile of J&K who have passed Class XII examination in 2015-16 and 2016-17 from the J&K State Board of School Education or CBSE-affiliated schools within J&K are eligible for registration. The students can register online on the link: www.aicte-jk-scholarship-gov.in.
Under the scheme, scholarship up to Rs 30,000 per annum per student is available for general courses, up to Rs 1.25 lakh per annum per student for engineering courses and up to Rs 3 lakh per annum per student for medical and dental courses.
The students taking admission by virtue of their own merit in institutions like IITs, NITs, medical colleges, dental colleges and Central universities outside J&K are also eligible for scholarship under the PMSSS.
While the tuition fee of the students admitted under the PMSSS is being directly transferred by the AICTE to the colleges concerned, the maintenance charges, including hostel fee, books and stationary, are being transferred into the account of the student concerned under the Direct Benefit Transfer (DBT) scheme.
Most of the students from J&K had secured admission in some of the reputed colleges across the country last year. Pertinently, J&K’s Minister for Education Syed Mohammad Altaf Bukhari had recently called on Union Minister for Human Resource Development Prakash Javadekar seeking inclusion of more courses under the PMSSS and waiving the upper income limit and also covering matriculates with diplomas and postgraduation courses under the scheme.
