From: Press Information Bureau Ministry of I&B <pib.kolkata@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 2:49 PM
Subject: Release...........pt2
Press Information Bureau
Government of India
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Ministry of Minority Affairs
Enhancing Opportunities for Education of Minority Communities
New Delhi: September 21, 2010.
The Ministry of Minority Affairs has awarded more than 37 lakh scholarships under various schemes since 2007-08. As provided in the Prime Minister's New 15 Point Programme for the Welfare of Minorities, the Ministry is implementing three scholarship schemes detailed below:
| Year | (i) Pre-matric Scholarship | (ii) Post-matric Scholarship | ||||||
| Target | Achievement | Finan-cial Alloca-tion (Rs.in crore) | Utiliz-ation (Rs. in crore) | Target (in lakh) | Achieve-ment (in lakh) | Finan-cial Alloca-tion (Rs.in crore) | Utiliza-tion (Rs.in crore) | |
| 07-08 | Scheme launched in 2008-09 | 0.75 | 0.25 | 60.00 | 9.63 | |||
| 08-09 | 3 lakh | 5.13 lakh | 79.90 | 62.21 | 1.25 | 1.7 | 69.93 | 70.63 |
| 09-10 | 15 lakh | 17.29 lakh | 200.00 | 202.94 | 3 | 3.87 | 150.00 | 149.79 |
| 10-11 | 20 lakh | 7.41 lakh | 450.00 | 198.97* | 4 | 0.69 | 265.00 | 105.28** |
* Including advance grants of Rs.117.85 crore, to State/UTs
** Including advance grants of Rs.58.87 crore, to State/UTs
Merit-cum-means Scholarship scheme for technical and professional courses: This scheme was launched in 2007-08 and cumulatively 79,435 scholarships have been awarded. During 2009-10, the achievement was 35,982 scholarships against the target of 42,000 scholarships. The target for 2010-11 is 55,000 scholarships against which so far we have released amount for 11,863.
Beside these three scholarship schemes, around 35,000 scholarships have been awarded to meritorious girl students since 2006-07 under the Meritorious Girl's Scholarship Scheme of Maulana Azad Education Foundation (MAEF). During 2009-10, the achievement was 15,070. The target for 2010-11 is 18,000 scholarships.
Under Maulana Azad National Fellowship scheme of the Ministry of Minority Affairs, 755 students have been awarded fellowship (involving Rs. 14.9 crore) through UGC for 2009-10. The amount is currently under distribution and the process for the current year (756 fresh cases involving Rs. 30 crore ) is being initiated.
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