National Scholarship Portal to be opened for 2021-22 session

Tribune News Service

Shimla, August 19

The Department of Higher Education will open the National Scholarship Portal (NSP) https://scholarships.gov.in for the session 2021-22 for applying and submitting online application forms under various state, central and minority-sponsored scholarship schemes and the DBT Mission, a spokesperson of the department said here today.

He said it had been decided in consultation with all stakeholders, ministries, departments to implement various measures to secure the portal and Aadhaar-based demographic authentication of institute/district nodal officers (INOs/DNOs).

The facility of the Aadhaar-based authentication of L1 and L2-level officers had been made live on the NSP Portal and the OTP generated during the process would be sent to the mobile number registered with the Aadhaar of INO/DNO.

He said a feature of Aadhaar demographic authentication based on beneficiary, students name, gender and year of birth given in Aadhaar had been introduced on the portal.

He requested all heads of institutions, schools, colleges, universities, deputy directors of higher education, Himachal Pradesh, to take note of the decision and initiate appropriate action accordingly.