Lok Sabha Question No. 355 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2022-02-03
Subject: Scholarship Schemes
Ministry: MINORITY AFFAIRS
Asked by: Badruddin Ajmal

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF MINORITY AFFAIRS

## LOK SABHA

## UNSTARRED QUESTION NO.355 ANSWERED ON 03.02.2022

## SCHOLARSHIP SCHEMES

355. SHRI  M. BADRUDDIN  AJMAL:

Will the Minister of MINORITY AFFAIRS be pleased to state:

- (a) the number of applications received by the Government from meritorious students of minority communities for Post-matric, Pre-matric and Merit-cum-Means scholarship during the last five years;
- (b) the details about the number of applicants for each scholarship separately, year and scheme-wise;
- (c) the number out of them who succeeded ingetting scholarship during the above said period along with the details of the beneficiaries, year and scheme-wise; and
- (d) the amount of funds allocated and spent for these scholarship schemes, year and scheme-wise?

## ANSWER

## MINISTER OF MINORITY AFFAIRS (SHRI MUKHTAR ABBAS NAQVI)

(a)  to  (c):  The  Ministry  of  Minority  Affairs  implements  three  Scholarship  Schemes viz.Pre-Matric, Post Matric and Merit-cum-Means based Scholarship Schemes for the educational empowerment of students belonging to economically weaker sections of the six notified minority communities i.e. Buddhist, Christian, Jain, Muslim, Parsi and Sikh in all States/UTs across the country. A total of thirty (30) lakh Pre-Matric, 5 lakh Post Matric and 60,000 Merit-cum-Means scholarships are targeted to be distributed as  'Fresh'  Scholarships  every  year,  besides,  Renewal  scholarships.  The    three scholarship  schemes are  being  implemented  through  the  National  Scholarship Portal  (NSP)  and are  being  disbursed  under  direct  benefit  transfer (DBT)  mode to    improve    the    efficiency    and    bring    transparency    by    removing  duplicity    and stopping  pilferages.

The details of number  of applications received, verified by States/UTs and sanctioned by the Ministry of Minority Affairs under the above mentioned schemes during 2016-17 to 2021-22 are as under:

| Year                                     | Pre-Matric Scholarship                   | Pre-Matric Scholarship                   |
|------------------------------------------|------------------------------------------|------------------------------------------|
|                                          | Number of verified applications received | Number of applications Sanctioned        |
| 2016-17                                  | 74,25,553                                | 41,53,524                                |
| 2017-18                                  | 85,70,708                                | 53,11,257                                |
| 2018-19                                  | 86,88,465                                | 56,91,854                                |
| 2019-20                                  | 70,84,410                                | 55,68,025                                |
| 2020-21*                                 | 60,38,248                                | 52,29,148                                |
| 2021-22**                                | 78,29,283                                | 24,05,498                                |
| Total                                    | 4,56,36,667                              | 2,83,59,306                              |
| Post Matric Scholarship Scheme           | Post Matric Scholarship Scheme           | Post Matric Scholarship Scheme           |
| 2016-17                                  | 13,65,838                                | 6,24,990                                 |
| 2017-18                                  | 14,07,780                                | 6,98,069                                 |
| 2018-19                                  | 12,80,958                                | 6,84,265                                 |
| 2019-20                                  | 11,24,202                                | 7,43,141                                 |
| 2020-21*                                 | 11,61,252                                | 6,62,912                                 |
| 2021-22**                                | 9,91,534                                 | 1,38,105                                 |
| Total                                    | 73,31,564                                | 35,51,482                                |
| Merit-cum-Means based Scholarship Scheme | Merit-cum-Means based Scholarship Scheme | Merit-cum-Means based Scholarship Scheme |
| 2016-17                                  | 189584                                   | 121937                                   |
| 2017-18                                  | 180421                                   | 119472                                   |
| 2018-19                                  | 180274                                   | 117771                                   |
| 2019-20                                  | 145398                                   | 118359                                   |
| 2020-21*                                 | 137340                                   | 120208                                   |
| 2021-22**                                | 118351                                   | 52720                                    |
| Total                                    | 9,51,368                                 | 6,50,467                                 |

(d):    The  details  of  budget  allocated  and  released  under  the  above  mentioned schemes from 2016-17 to 2021-22 are as under:-

(In ₹ Crore)

| Scheme   | Pre-Matric       | Pre-Matric      | Post Matric      | Post Matric     | Merit-Cum-Means   | Merit-Cum-Means   |
|----------|------------------|-----------------|------------------|-----------------|-------------------|-------------------|
| Year     | Budget Allocated | Amount Released | Budget Allocated | Amount Released | Budget Allocated  | Amount Released   |
| 2016-17  | 931.00           | 585.94          | 550.00           | 287.11          | 335.00            | 220.54            |
| 2017-18  | 950.00           | 1108.13         | 550.00           | 479.72          | 393.54            | 388.79            |
| 2018-19  | 980.00           | 1176.19         | 692.00           | 354.89          | 522.00            | 261.17            |
| 2019-20  | 1220.30          | 1324.84         | 496.01           | 428.77          | 366.43            | 285.63            |
| 2020-21  | 1330.00          | 1325.54         | 535.00           | 512.81          | 400.00            | 396.34            |
| 2021-22  | 1378.00          | 474.52*         | 468.00           | 80.58*          | 325.00            | 134.09*           |
| Total    | 6789.30          | 5995.16         | 3291.01          | 2143.88         | 2341.97           | 1686.56           |

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