INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Kathmandu, March 19
The Ministry of Women, Children and Senior Citizens has issued ‘Procedure to Provide Scholarship for Disadvantaged and
Brilliant Teenage Girls in Higher Education of Technical Subject-2020& to ensure that poor and meritorious students are not deprived of
higher education in technical subjects.
As per the procedure, the federal government will provide scholarship to beneficiaries consistent
with the President Women Upliftment Programme.
&Ministry of social development of concerned province shall be responsible to provide
scholarship for the disadvantaged and brilliant teenage girls in accordance within this procedure,& reads Section 3 of the procedure
Students selected for scholarship will get Rs 250,000 each, for completion of technical course.
&The scholarship amount shall be distributed
in two tranches with effect from the current fiscal
The procedure stipulates provision of a five-member scholarship management committee headed by the secretary of MoSD in each province.
It
has also set criteria for selection of beneficiaries.
Preference will be accorded to those girls, who graduated Grade XII or equivalent with
good track record and are parentless, at high risk of trafficking, living with differently-abled parents and from Dalit community, indigent
groups and remote areas.
According to the procedure, the committee shall publish a public notice in a national daily with one week deadline
for submission of application.
A candidate can submit an application to the committee, along with certificate of Grade XII and other
documents as prescribed.
After applications are received, the committee shall select beneficiaries as per the criteria specified by the
procedure.
MoSD provides scholarship amount to beneficiaries from its internal resource or from the grant provided by the federal
government.
&MoSD shall have to disburse scholarship amount to the institutions where they are studying to ensure that the cash is not spent
for other purposes,& reads Section 7 of the procedure.
The procedure requires concerned province to carry out monitoring of the scholarship
programme through local levels and send its report to MoWCSC.
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