Lok Sabha Question No. 279 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2018-02-05
Subject: Scholarships Provided in Gujarat
Ministry: HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT
Asked by: DILIP PATEL

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT OF HIGHER EDUCATION

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 279 TO BE ANSWERED ON 05 th  FEBRUARY, 2018

## Scholarships Provided in Gujarat

## 279. SHRI DILIP PATEL:

## Will the Minister of HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT

## be pleased to state:

- (a) the details of scholarships provided to students in colleges and schools in the State of Gujarat in each of the last three years, scheme, district and year-wise; and
- (b) the details of scholarships provided to SC/ST students in colleges and schools in the State of Gujarat during the said period, scheme, district and year-wise?

## ANSWER

## MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT (Dr. Satya Pal Singh)

(a)  and (b) :   The  Ministry of Human Resource Development  is  implementing   (i) Centrally Sponsored  National  Means-cum-Merit  Scholarship  Scheme  (ii)  National  Scheme  of  Incentive  to Girls  for  Secondary  Education  and  (iii)  Central  Sector  Scheme  of  Scholarship  for  College  and University  Students. The  scheme-wise  and  district-wise  details  of  scholarships  provided  to  the General,  Schedule  Castes  and  Schedule  Tribes  students  of  colleges  and  schools  in  the  State  of Gujarat, during the last three years are indicated at Annexure-I, Annexure-II and Annexure-III respectively.

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| S.No.                     | Year-wise details of District Name   | scholarships sanctioned Financial   | scholarships sanctioned Financial   | scholarships sanctioned Financial   | scholarships sanctioned Financial   | the Gujarat State   | the Gujarat State   | the Gujarat State   |
|---------------------------|--------------------------------------|-------------------------------------|-------------------------------------|-------------------------------------|-------------------------------------|---------------------|---------------------|---------------------|
| S.No.                     | Year-wise details of District Name   | General                             | Year SC                             | 2014-15 ST                          | Total                               | General             | SC                  | Year 2 ST           |
| 1                         | AHMEDABAD (CITY)                     | 107                                 | 15                                  | 6                                   | 128                                 | 105                 | 2                   |                     |
| 2                         | AMRELI                               | 100                                 | 6                                   |                                     | 106                                 |                     |                     |                     |
| 3                         | ANAND                                | 146                                 |                                     |                                     | 146                                 | 103                 | 4                   | 2                   |
| 4                         | BANASKANTHA                          |                                     |                                     |                                     | 0                                   | 36                  | 5                   | 5                   |
| 5                         | BHARUCH                              | 130                                 | 13                                  | 9                                   | 152                                 |                     |                     |                     |
| 6                         | BHAVNAGAR                            |                                     |                                     |                                     | 0                                   |                     |                     |                     |
| 7                         | DAHOD                                |                                     |                                     |                                     | 0                                   | 22                  | 1                   | 40                  |
| 8                         | DANG                                 |                                     |                                     |                                     | 0                                   |                     |                     |                     |
| 9                         | GANDHINAGAR                          |                                     |                                     |                                     | 0                                   | 40                  |                     |                     |
| 10                        | JAMNAGAR                             | 110                                 |                                     |                                     | 110                                 | 172                 | 7                   |                     |
| 11                        | JUNAGADH                             | 132                                 | 4                                   | 1                                   | 137                                 | 47                  | 11                  |                     |
| 12                        | KHEDA                                |                                     |                                     |                                     | 0                                   | 55                  | 3                   |                     |
| 13                        | KUTCH                                | 34                                  | 11                                  |                                     | 45                                  |                     |                     |                     |
| 14                        | MEHSANA                              | 70                                  | 5                                   | 1                                   | 76                                  |                     |                     |                     |
| 15                        | NARMADA                              | 11                                  | 2                                   | 37                                  | 50                                  |                     |                     |                     |
| 16                        | NAVSARI                              | 87                                  | 3                                   | 15                                  | 105                                 | 101                 | 3                   | 15                  |
| 17                        | PANCHMAHAL                           |                                     |                                     |                                     | 0                                   |                     |                     |                     |
| 18                        | PATAN                                | 78                                  | 11                                  | 2                                   | 91                                  | 79                  | 9                   |                     |
| 19                        | PORBANDAR                            |                                     |                                     |                                     | 0                                   | 27                  | 7                   | 1                   |
| 20                        | RAJKOT                               | 292                                 | 8                                   | 8                                   | 308                                 |                     |                     |                     |
| 21                        | SABARKANTHA                          | 38                                  | 9                                   | 11                                  | 58                                  | 24                  |                     |                     |
| 22                        | SURAT                                | 302                                 |                                     |                                     | 302                                 | 70                  | 5                   | 7                   |
| 23                        | SURENDRANAGAR                        | 99                                  | 12                                  | 3                                   | 114                                 | 45                  | 20                  |                     |
| 24                        | TAPI                                 | 2                                   | 0                                   | 61                                  | 63                                  |                     |                     | 44                  |
| 25                        | VALSAD                               | 54                                  | 2                                   | 17                                  | 73                                  |                     |                     |                     |
| Total No. of scholarships | Total No. of scholarships            | 1792                                | 101                                 | 171                                 | 2064                                | 926                 | 77                  | 114                 |

Due to inadeuqate funds, the proposal received from the State Government of Gujarat for the year 2016 not be processed / sanctioned during the financial year 2016-17. However, all the pending proposals rece the State Government  for the year 2009-10 to 2016-17 were processed in the year 2017-18 and scholars sanctioned to 37521 students (General-29250, SC-4275, ST-3996) during 2017-18.

| NATIONAL SCHEME OF INCENTIVE TO GIRLS FOR SECONDARY EDUCATION (NSIGS Year-wise details of scholarships sanctioned for the Gujarat State   | NATIONAL SCHEME OF INCENTIVE TO GIRLS FOR SECONDARY EDUCATION (NSIGS Year-wise details of scholarships sanctioned for the Gujarat State   | NATIONAL SCHEME OF INCENTIVE TO GIRLS FOR SECONDARY EDUCATION (NSIGS Year-wise details of scholarships sanctioned for the Gujarat State   | NATIONAL SCHEME OF INCENTIVE TO GIRLS FOR SECONDARY EDUCATION (NSIGS Year-wise details of scholarships sanctioned for the Gujarat State   | NATIONAL SCHEME OF INCENTIVE TO GIRLS FOR SECONDARY EDUCATION (NSIGS Year-wise details of scholarships sanctioned for the Gujarat State   | NATIONAL SCHEME OF INCENTIVE TO GIRLS FOR SECONDARY EDUCATION (NSIGS Year-wise details of scholarships sanctioned for the Gujarat State   | NATIONAL SCHEME OF INCENTIVE TO GIRLS FOR SECONDARY EDUCATION (NSIGS Year-wise details of scholarships sanctioned for the Gujarat State   | NATIONAL SCHEME OF INCENTIVE TO GIRLS FOR SECONDARY EDUCATION (NSIGS Year-wise details of scholarships sanctioned for the Gujarat State   | NATIONAL SCHEME OF INCENTIVE TO GIRLS FOR SECONDARY EDUCATION (NSIGS Year-wise details of scholarships sanctioned for the Gujarat State   |
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| S.No.                                                                                                                                     | District Name                                                                                                                             | Financial year 2014-15                                                                                                                    | Financial year 2014-15                                                                                                                    | Financial year 2014-15                                                                                                                    | Financial year 2014-15                                                                                                                    | Financial year 201                                                                                                                        | Financial year 201                                                                                                                        | Financial year 201                                                                                                                        |
| S.No.                                                                                                                                     | District Name                                                                                                                             | General                                                                                                                                   | SC                                                                                                                                        | ST                                                                                                                                        | Total                                                                                                                                     | General                                                                                                                                   | SC                                                                                                                                        | ST                                                                                                                                        |
| 1                                                                                                                                         | AHMEDABAD (CITY)                                                                                                                          | 0                                                                                                                                         | 1903                                                                                                                                      | 53                                                                                                                                        | 1956                                                                                                                                      | 0                                                                                                                                         | 3328                                                                                                                                      | 246                                                                                                                                       |
| 2                                                                                                                                         | AHMEDABAD (RURAL)                                                                                                                         | 0                                                                                                                                         | 255                                                                                                                                       | 22                                                                                                                                        | 277                                                                                                                                       | 0                                                                                                                                         | 951                                                                                                                                       | 61                                                                                                                                        |
| 3                                                                                                                                         | AMRELI                                                                                                                                    | 0                                                                                                                                         | 725                                                                                                                                       | 11                                                                                                                                        | 736                                                                                                                                       | 0                                                                                                                                         | 1533                                                                                                                                      | 19                                                                                                                                        |
| 4                                                                                                                                         | ANAND                                                                                                                                     | 0                                                                                                                                         | 211                                                                                                                                       | 17                                                                                                                                        | 228                                                                                                                                       | 0                                                                                                                                         | 332                                                                                                                                       | 107                                                                                                                                       |
| 5                                                                                                                                         | BANASKANTHA                                                                                                                               | 0                                                                                                                                         | 283                                                                                                                                       | 29                                                                                                                                        | 312                                                                                                                                       | 0                                                                                                                                         | 737                                                                                                                                       | 591                                                                                                                                       |
| 6                                                                                                                                         | BHARUCH                                                                                                                                   | 0                                                                                                                                         | 251                                                                                                                                       | 1747                                                                                                                                      | 1998                                                                                                                                      | 0                                                                                                                                         | 460                                                                                                                                       | 306                                                                                                                                       |
| 7                                                                                                                                         | BHAVNAGAR                                                                                                                                 | 0                                                                                                                                         | 744                                                                                                                                       | 27                                                                                                                                        | 771                                                                                                                                       | 0                                                                                                                                         | 554                                                                                                                                       | 35                                                                                                                                        |
| 8                                                                                                                                         | BOTAD                                                                                                                                     | 0                                                                                                                                         | 0                                                                                                                                         | 0                                                                                                                                         | 0                                                                                                                                         | 0                                                                                                                                         | 191                                                                                                                                       | 6                                                                                                                                         |
| 9                                                                                                                                         | DAHOD                                                                                                                                     | 0                                                                                                                                         | 90                                                                                                                                        | 2637                                                                                                                                      | 2727                                                                                                                                      | 0                                                                                                                                         | 190                                                                                                                                       | 684                                                                                                                                       |
| 10                                                                                                                                        | DANG                                                                                                                                      | 0                                                                                                                                         | 9                                                                                                                                         | 1078                                                                                                                                      | 1087                                                                                                                                      | 0                                                                                                                                         | 16                                                                                                                                        | 170                                                                                                                                       |
| 11                                                                                                                                        | GANDHINAGAR                                                                                                                               | 0                                                                                                                                         | 412                                                                                                                                       | 68                                                                                                                                        | 480                                                                                                                                       | 0                                                                                                                                         | 699                                                                                                                                       | 95                                                                                                                                        |
| 12                                                                                                                                        | JAMNAGAR                                                                                                                                  | 0                                                                                                                                         | 470                                                                                                                                       | 10                                                                                                                                        | 480                                                                                                                                       | 0                                                                                                                                         | 1185                                                                                                                                      | 25                                                                                                                                        |
| 13                                                                                                                                        | DEVBHUMI DVARKA                                                                                                                           | 0                                                                                                                                         | 0                                                                                                                                         | 0                                                                                                                                         | 0                                                                                                                                         | 0                                                                                                                                         | 156                                                                                                                                       | 5                                                                                                                                         |
| 14                                                                                                                                        | JUNAGADH                                                                                                                                  | 0                                                                                                                                         | 942                                                                                                                                       | 50                                                                                                                                        | 992                                                                                                                                       | 0                                                                                                                                         | 2780                                                                                                                                      | 250                                                                                                                                       |
| 15                                                                                                                                        | GIR SOMNATH                                                                                                                               | 0                                                                                                                                         | 0                                                                                                                                         | 0                                                                                                                                         | 0                                                                                                                                         | 0                                                                                                                                         | 585                                                                                                                                       | 38                                                                                                                                        |
| 16                                                                                                                                        | KUTCHH                                                                                                                                    | 0                                                                                                                                         | 385                                                                                                                                       | 28                                                                                                                                        | 413                                                                                                                                       | 0                                                                                                                                         | 1494                                                                                                                                      | 42                                                                                                                                        |
| 17                                                                                                                                        | MEHSANA                                                                                                                                   | 0                                                                                                                                         | 965                                                                                                                                       | 29                                                                                                                                        | 994                                                                                                                                       | 0                                                                                                                                         | 754                                                                                                                                       | 0                                                                                                                                         |
| 18                                                                                                                                        | KHEDA-NADIYAD                                                                                                                             | 0                                                                                                                                         | 554                                                                                                                                       | 155                                                                                                                                       | 709                                                                                                                                       | 0                                                                                                                                         | 352                                                                                                                                       | 96                                                                                                                                        |
| 19                                                                                                                                        | NARMADA                                                                                                                                   | 0                                                                                                                                         | 0                                                                                                                                         | 0                                                                                                                                         | 0                                                                                                                                         | 0                                                                                                                                         | 32                                                                                                                                        | 193                                                                                                                                       |
| 20                                                                                                                                        | NAVSARI                                                                                                                                   | 0                                                                                                                                         | 107                                                                                                                                       | 4435                                                                                                                                      | 4542                                                                                                                                      | 0                                                                                                                                         | 168                                                                                                                                       | 546                                                                                                                                       |
| 21                                                                                                                                        | PANCHMAHAL(GODHARA                                                                                                                        | 0                                                                                                                                         | 215                                                                                                                                       | 1091                                                                                                                                      | 1306                                                                                                                                      | 0                                                                                                                                         | 640                                                                                                                                       | 255                                                                                                                                       |
| 22                                                                                                                                        | PATAN                                                                                                                                     | 0                                                                                                                                         | 264                                                                                                                                       | 6                                                                                                                                         | 270                                                                                                                                       | 0                                                                                                                                         | 1188                                                                                                                                      | 32                                                                                                                                        |
| 23                                                                                                                                        | PORBANDAR                                                                                                                                 | 0                                                                                                                                         | 352                                                                                                                                       | 25                                                                                                                                        | 377                                                                                                                                       | 0                                                                                                                                         | 417                                                                                                                                       | 26                                                                                                                                        |
| 24                                                                                                                                        | RAJKOT                                                                                                                                    | 0                                                                                                                                         | 1421                                                                                                                                      | 49                                                                                                                                        | 1470                                                                                                                                      | 0                                                                                                                                         | 2445                                                                                                                                      | 90                                                                                                                                        |
| 25                                                                                                                                        | SABARKANTHA                                                                                                                               | 0                                                                                                                                         | 1223                                                                                                                                      | 2609                                                                                                                                      | 3832                                                                                                                                      | 0                                                                                                                                         | 1950                                                                                                                                      | 367                                                                                                                                       |
| 26                                                                                                                                        | SURAT                                                                                                                                     | 0                                                                                                                                         | 666                                                                                                                                       | 4494                                                                                                                                      | 5160                                                                                                                                      | 0                                                                                                                                         | 906                                                                                                                                       | 701                                                                                                                                       |
| 27                                                                                                                                        | SURENDRANAGAR                                                                                                                             | 0                                                                                                                                         | 330                                                                                                                                       | 2                                                                                                                                         | 332                                                                                                                                       | 0                                                                                                                                         | 1439                                                                                                                                      | 33                                                                                                                                        |
| 28                                                                                                                                        | VADODARA                                                                                                                                  | 0                                                                                                                                         | 837                                                                                                                                       | 2675                                                                                                                                      | 3512                                                                                                                                      | 0                                                                                                                                         | 1751                                                                                                                                      | 238                                                                                                                                       |
| 29                                                                                                                                        | CHHOTAUDEPUR                                                                                                                              | 0                                                                                                                                         | 0                                                                                                                                         | 0                                                                                                                                         | 0                                                                                                                                         | 0                                                                                                                                         | 0                                                                                                                                         | 143                                                                                                                                       |
| 30                                                                                                                                        | ARAVALLI                                                                                                                                  | 0                                                                                                                                         | 0                                                                                                                                         | 0                                                                                                                                         | 0                                                                                                                                         | 0                                                                                                                                         |                                                                                                                                           | 163                                                                                                                                       |
| 31                                                                                                                                        | MORABI                                                                                                                                    | 0                                                                                                                                         | 0                                                                                                                                         | 0                                                                                                                                         | 0                                                                                                                                         | 0                                                                                                                                         | 353 331                                                                                                                                   | 12                                                                                                                                        |

| 32                        | MAHISAGARA                |   0 |     0 |     0 |     0 |   0 |   279 |   168 |
|---------------------------|---------------------------|-----|-------|-------|-------|-----|-------|-------|
| 33                        | VALSAD                    |   0 |    84 |  1864 |  1948 |   0 |    80 |   106 |
| 34                        | TAPI                      |   0 |     0 |  2165 |  2165 |   0 |    36 |   451 |
| Total No. of scholarships | Total No. of scholarships |   0 | 13698 | 25376 | 39074 |   0 | 28312 |  4680 |

Due to inadeuqate funds, the proposal received from the State Government of Gujarat for the year 2016not be processed / sanctioned during the financial year 2016-17. However, all the pending proposals recei the State Government were processed in the year 2017-18 and scholarships were sanctioned to 69693 b girls (General-3963, SC-25293, ST-40437) during 2017-18.

|         | District                   | Year-wise details 2014-15   | Year-wise details 2014-15   | Year-wise details 2014-15   | Year-wise details 2014-15   | of scholarships sanctioned   | of scholarships sanctioned   | of scholarships sanctioned   | of scholarships sanctioned   | of scholarships sanctioned   |
|---------|----------------------------|-----------------------------|-----------------------------|-----------------------------|-----------------------------|------------------------------|------------------------------|------------------------------|------------------------------|------------------------------|
|         | District                   | Gen                         | SC                          | ST                          | Total                       | Gen                          | SC                           | ST                           | Total                        | Gen                          |
| S.No. 1 | Ahmedabad                  | 1026                        | 20                          | 2                           | 1048                        | 758                          | 12                           | 24                           | 794                          | 203                          |
| S.No. 1 | Amreli                     | 369                         | 4                           | 0                           | 373                         | 295                          | 1                            | 0                            | 296                          | 289                          |
| 3       | Anand                      | 196                         | 5                           | 0                           | 201                         | 187                          | 2                            | 0                            | 189                          | 10                           |
| 4       | Aravalli                   | 0                           | 0                           | 0                           | 0                           | 32                           | 0                            | 0                            | 32                           | 6                            |
| 5       | Banaskantha                | 115                         | 4                           | 0                           | 119                         | 104                          | 3                            | 0                            | 107                          | 61                           |
| 6       | Bharuch                    | 103                         | 4                           | 1                           | 108                         | 96                           | 0                            | 1                            | 97                           | 21                           |
| 7       | Bhavnagar                  | 360                         | 12                          | 0                           | 372                         | 367                          | 17                           | 9                            | 393                          | 228                          |
| 8       | Botad                      | 0                           | 0                           | 0                           | 0                           | 25                           | 0                            | 0                            | 25                           | 10                           |
| 9       | Chhota Udaipur             | 0                           | 0                           | 0                           | 0                           | 2                            | 0                            | 0                            | 2                            | 0                            |
| 10      | Dahod                      | 36                          | 9                           | 20                          | 65                          | 48                           | 0                            | 0                            | 48                           | 62                           |
| 11      | Dang                       | 25                          | 1                           | 0                           | 26                          | 0                            | 1                            | 0                            | 1                            | 0                            |
| 12      | Devbhoomi Dwarka           | 0                           | 0                           | 0                           | 0                           | 8                            | 2                            | 1                            | 11                           | 14                           |
| 13      | Gandhinagar                | 593                         | 10                          | 2                           | 605                         | 499                          | 34                           | 19                           | 552                          | 20                           |
| 14      | Gir Somnath                | 0                           | 0                           | 0                           | 0                           | 56                           | 0                            | 0                            | 56                           | 47                           |
| 15      | Jamnagar                   | 193                         | 15                          | 1                           | 209                         | 235                          | 29                           | 2                            | 266                          | 91                           |
| 16      | Junagadh                   | 149                         | 9                           | 0                           | 158                         | 169                          | 0                            | 1                            | 170                          | 106                          |
| 17      | Kutch                      | 56                          | 4                           | 0                           | 60                          | 61                           | 0                            | 0                            | 61                           | 13                           |
| 18      | Kheda                      | 96                          | 9                           | 0                           | 105                         | 109                          | 0                            | 0                            | 109                          | 22                           |
| 19      | Mahisagar                  | 0                           | 0                           | 0                           | 0                           | 12                           | 0                            | 0                            | 12                           | 9                            |
| 20      | Mehsana                    | 183                         | 10                          | 0                           | 193                         | 202                          | 5                            | 0                            | 207                          | 67                           |
| 21      | Morbi                      | 0                           | 0                           | 0                           | 0                           | 38                           | 0                            | 0                            | 38                           | 15                           |
| 22      | Narmada                    | 14                          | 0                           | 0                           | 14                          | 20                           | 3                            | 0                            | 23                           | 3                            |
| 23      | Navsari                    | 56                          | 0                           | 2                           | 58                          | 62                           | 0                            | 0                            | 62                           | 18                           |
| 24      | Panchmahal                 | 19                          | 0                           | 3                           | 22                          | 40                           | 0                            | 0                            | 40                           | 21                           |
| 25      | Patan                      | 69                          | 1                           | 0                           | 70                          | 66                           | 0                            | 0                            | 66                           | 11                           |
| 26      | Porbandar                  | 42                          | 0                           | 0                           | 42                          | 39                           | 0                            | 0                            | 39                           | 40                           |
| 27      | Rajkot                     | 463                         | 10                          | 0                           | 473                         | 545                          | 54                           | 8                            | 607                          | 588                          |
| 28      | Sabarkantha                | 169                         | 10                          | 15                          | 194                         | 184                          | 15                           | 8                            | 207                          | 62                           |
| 29      | Surat                      | 598                         | 10                          | 3                           | 611                         | 837                          | 91                           | 15                           | 943                          | 426                          |
| 30      | Surendranagar              | 469                         | 4                           | 0                           | 473                         | 506                          | 0                            | 0                            | 506                          | 128                          |
| 31      | Tapi                       | 0                           | 0                           | 0                           | 0                           | 5                            | 0                            | 0                            | 5                            | 1                            |
| 32      | Vadodara                   | 308                         | 10                          | 0                           | 318                         | 351                          | 6                            | 0                            | 357                          | 55                           |
| 33      | Valsad                     | 98                          | 1                           | 0                           | 99                          | 99                           | 0                            | 0                            | 99                           | 41                           |
|         | Total No. of scholarships: | 5805                        | 162                         | 49                          | 6016                        | 6057                         | 275                          | 88                           | 6420                         | 2688                         |

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