Lok Sabha Question No. 2538 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2025-08-05
Subject: National Overseas Scholarship
Ministry: SOCIAL JUSTICE AND EMPOWERMENT
Asked by: Shri S Venkatesan, Shri  Selvaganapathi T.M., Shri Rahul Gandhi, Shri Sachithanantham R

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF SOCIAL JUSTICE  AND EMPOWERMENT LOK SABHA

## T NSTARRED QUESTION  NO.2538 TO BE AI\SWERED ON 05.08.2025

## NATIONAL OVERSEAS SCHOLARSHIP

## 2538. SHRI S VENKATESAN:

SHRI RAHUL GANDHI:

SHRI SELVAGANAPATHI T.M.:

SHRI SACHITHANANTHAM R:

## Will the Minister of SOCIAL JUSTICE AND EMPOWERMENT  be pleased to state:

- (a) whether  it has come to the notice of the Government regarding  the inordinate  delay in National Overseas Scholarship  (NOS) to 60Yo of the students belonging to SC/ST;
- (b) if so, the reasons for an inordinate delay in clearing NOS, State-wise;
- (c) the measures are taken to safeguard  the interest  of the students  belonging to oppressed sections whose study is hindered;
- (d) whether the Govemment proposes  to provide scholarships to all promising  young  candidates selected  under the National Overseas Scholarship for 2025-26, if so, the details thereof, Statewise;
- (e) the details and number of candidates belonging to Scheduled  Castes, De-notified Nomadic and Semi-Nomadic Tribes, Landless Agricultural  Labourers  and Traditional Artisans who have availed benefits under the NOS scheme  since 2019, along with details of the financial  assistance disbursed  and utilized, State-wise;
- (f) whether the Govemment proposes to revise or enhance the annual maintenance allowance, if so, the details thereof; and
- (g) whether  it is a fact that the Govemment is not in a state to provide  funds for evaluating  the scheme  during the financial  year (2026-2027)  and if so, the details thereof?

## ANSWER

## MINISTER  OX'STATE F'OR SOCIAL JUSTICE  AND EMPOWERMENT (sHRr RAMDAS ATHAWALE)

- (a) to (d): Provisional Award Letters have been issued to all the 106 candidates who have been selected in the first round of the Selection Year 2025-26 under the National  Overseas Schotarship  (NOS) Scheme for SCs etc. The StateAJT-wise  details of candidates provisionally selected for selection year 2025-26 under  the Scheme is at Annexure-I.
- (e): State/UT-wise  and category-wise details of beneficiaries  and financial assistance disbursed  since 2019 is at Annexure-Il.
- (f) & (g): The NOS Scheme  has been approved for the period from 2021-22 to 2025-26. Review  of the Schemes which also covers components  of financial  assistance, follows a laid down procedure.

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Annexure referred to part (a) to (d) in reply to Lok Sabha Unstarred  Question  No. 2538 to be answered on 05.08.2025.

The StateAJT-wise details of candidates provisionally selected for selection year 2025-26  under the Scheme:

| S. No.   | State/UT                             | 2025-26   |
|----------|--------------------------------------|-----------|
| 1        | Andaman & Nicobar                    | 0         |
| 2        | Andhra Pradesh                       | 7         |
| 3        | Arunachal Pradesh                    | 0         |
| 4        | Assam                                | 0         |
| 5        | Bihar                                | 5         |
| 6        | Chandigarh                           | 2         |
| 7        | Chhattisearh                         | 2         |
| 8        | Dadra & Nagar Haveli and Daman & Diu | 0         |
| 9        | Delhi                                | 7         |
| l0       | Goa                                  | 0         |
| t1       | Guiarat                              | 9         |
| t2       | Haryana                              | t2        |
| 13       | Himachal Pradesh                     | 0         |
| t4       | Jammu & Kashmir                      | 0         |
| l5       | Jharkhand                            | 0         |
| l6       | Karnataka                            | 7         |
| t7       | Kerala                               | 4         |
| 18       | Ladaktr                              | 0         |
| t9       | Lakshadweep                          | 0         |
| 20       | Madhya Pradesh                       | 1l        |
| 2t       | Maharashtra                          | t2        |
| 22       | Manipur                              | I         |
| 23       | Meshalaya                            | 0         |
| 24       | Mizoram                              | 0         |
| 25       | Nagaland                             | 0         |
| 26       | Odisha                               | 2         |
| 27       | Puducherry                           | 0         |
| 28       | Puniab                               | 6         |
| 29       | Raiasthan                            | 2         |
| 30       | Sikkim                               | 0         |
| 3t       | Tamil Nadu                           | I         |
| 32       | Telangana                            | 3         |
| 33       | Tripura                              | 0         |
| 34       | Uttar Pradesh                        | 9         |
| 3s       | Uttarakhand                          | 2         |
| 36       | West Bengal                          | 2         |
|          | Total                                | 106       |

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## Ann€xur€  refer€d  to part (e) h rcply to Lok Sabha Unstafled  Question  No. 2538 to be answered  on 05.08.2025

Stratr/UT-wise  details  of the numb€r  of beneficiaries  betonging to Schedulcd  Cast€s,  De-notified  Nomadic  and Semi  Nomadic Tribes, L€ndtcss Agricultural  Labourers  and Traditionat  Artisans  who have availed benefit under the Soheme,  along with the finaucial  assistance extqrded  to them  since 2019:

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|       | state^.IT           | 2019-20                    | 2019-20     | 2020-21                     | 2020-21     | 202t-22                     | 202t-22     | 2022-23                     | 2022-23     | 2023-24                         | 2023-24     | 20u-25                      | 20u-25      | t02s-26                                                                                                       |
|-------|---------------------|----------------------------|-------------|-----------------------------|-------------|-----------------------------|-------------|-----------------------------|-------------|---------------------------------|-------------|-----------------------------|-------------|---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| S.No. | state^.IT           | Deneficieriet Gone lbroed) | Expenditure | Beneficieries (Gone Ahrord) | Expcnditure | Beneliciaries [Gone Abroad) | Expenditure | Beneficieries (Gone Abroad) | Expenditure | |eneficiaries Gone \broad) | Expenditure | Benelicirries iGone {broad) | Expenditure | t02s-26                                                                                                       |
| I     | {ndhra )radesh      | 0                          | 0.00        | 4                           | 2.26        | 0                           | 0.00        | 0                           | 0.00        | 3                               | 1.67        | 3                           | 2.98        | hovisional a ward letters to selected 106 candidates have been issued and these candidates are yet to proceed |
| .,    | arunachal lradesh   | 0                          | 0.00        | 0                           | 0.00        | 0                           | 0.00        | 0                           | 0.00        | 0                               | 0.00        | 0                           | 0.00        |                                                                                                               |
| 3     | {ssam               | 0                          | 0.00        | 0                           | 0.00        | 0                           | 0.00        | 0                           | 0.00        | I                               | 0.80        | 0                           | 0.00        |                                                                                                               |
| 4     | lihar               | 0                          | 0.00        | 0                           | 0.00        | I                           | 0.92        | I                           | 0.1         | 1                               | 0.40        | 2                           | 0.91        |                                                                                                               |
| 5     | rh                  | 0                          | 0.00        | 0                           | 0.00        | 0                           | 0.00        | 0                           | 0.00        | 0                               | 0.00        | 0                           | 0.00        |                                                                                                               |
| 6     | uh                  | 0                          | 0.00        | 0                           | 0.00        | I                           | 0.43        | 0                           | 0.00        | I                               | 0.58        | 0                           | 0.00        |                                                                                                               |
| 7     | )elhi               | 5                          | 2.64        | 3                           | 1.63        | 1                           | 1.65        | 4                           | 2.s0        | 8                               | s.50        | 7                           | 4.26        |                                                                                                               |
| 8     | ioa                 | 0                          | 0.00        | 0                           | 0.00        | 0                           | 0.00        | 0                           | 0.00        | 0                               | 0.00        | 0                           | 0.00        |                                                                                                               |
| 9     | lirriamt            | 0                          | 0.00        |                             | 0.74        | 4                           | t.52        | 8                           | 4.07        | 6                               | 3.88        | t2                          | 7.33        |                                                                                                               |
| l0    | Flaryana            | I                          | 0.68        | 3                           | 1.77        | 7                           | t.96        | 2                           | r.3E        | 3                               | 3.01        |                             | 0.42        |                                                                                                               |
| ll    | Himachal Pradesh    | 0                          | 0.00        | 0                           | 0.00        | 0                           | 0.00        | 0                           | 0.00        | I                               | l.0l        | 0                           | 0.00        |                                                                                                               |
| t2    | Iammu and Kashmir   | 0                          | 0.00        | I                           | 0.70        | 0                           | 0.00        | 0                           | 0.00        | I                               | 0.41        | )                           | 1.27        |                                                                                                               |
| 13    | lharkhand           | 0                          | 0.00        | I                           | 0.35        | 0                           | 0.00        | 0                           | 0.00        | 0                               | 0.00        | 0                           | 0.00        |                                                                                                               |
| 4     | Karnataka           | .,                         | l.3l        | 4                           | 2.36        | I                           | 0.6E        | 5                           | 2.tt        | I                               | 0.84        | 0                           | 0.00        |                                                                                                               |
| 5     | Kerala              |                            | 0.67        | 4                           | 1.74        | 4                           | 2.t2        | 3                           | 1.68        | 3                               | 1.55        | 4                           | 2.ll        |                                                                                                               |
| 6     | Ladakh              | 0                          | 0.00        | 0                           | L56         | 0                           | 0.00        | 0                           | 0.00        | 0                               | 0.00        | 0                           | 0.00        |                                                                                                               |
| t7    | Madhya              | 5                          | 2.90        | J                           | 0.00        | 6                           | 3.77        | I                           | 0.34        | 4                               | 3.08        | 5                           | 2.70        |                                                                                                               |
| IE    | Pradesh Maharashtra | 20                         | 10.90       | 28                          | 19.73       | 43                          | 2.34        | 56                          | 29.27       | 68                              | 43.65       | ll                          | 12.00       |                                                                                                               |
| t9    |                     |                            | 0.40        | 0                           | 1.3 E       | 0                           | 0.00        | 0                           | 0.00        | 0                               | 000         | 0                           | 0.00        | abroad for                                                                                                    |
| 20    | Meehalava           | 0                          | 0.00        | 0                           | 0.00        | 0                           | 0.00        | 0                           | 0.00        | 0                               | 0.00        | 0                           | 0.00        | study.                                                                                                        |
| 2t    | Mizoram             | 0                          | 0.00        | 0                           | 0.00        | 0                           | 0.00        | 0                           | 0.00        | 0                               | 0.00        | 0                           | 0.00        |                                                                                                               |
| 22    | Naealand            | 0                          | 0.00        | 0                           | 0.00        | 0                           | 0.00        | 0                           | 0.00        | 0                               | 0.00        | 0                           | 0.00        |                                                                                                               |
| 23    | Cdisha              | I                          | 1.27        | 2                           | 1.3 8       | 2                           | 2.5         | 0                           | 0.00        | 0                               | 0.00        | 0                           | 0.00        |                                                                                                               |
| 24    |                     | 0                          | 0.00        | I                           | 0.00        | 4                           | 0.00        |                             | 0.00        | I                               | 0.00        | 6                           | t.20        |                                                                                                               |
| 25    | $ Puducherrv        | 0                          | 0.00        | 0                           | 0.81        | 0                           | 2.9t        | 0                           | 2.25        | 0                               | 0.70        | 2                           | 4.26        |                                                                                                               |
| 26    |                     | 0                          | 0.00        | 0                           | 0.00        | 2                           | 1.90        | 0                           | 0.00        | I                               | 0.42        |                             | a46         |                                                                                                               |
| 27    | Sikkim              | 0                          | 0.00        | 0                           | 0.00        | 0                           | 0.00        | 0                           | 0.00        | 0                               | 0.00        | 0                           | 0.00        |                                                                                                               |
| 28    | Iamil Nadu          | 2                          | 0.35        | 5                           | 6.04        | 7                           | 4.97        |                             | 1.05        | 4                               | 3.41        | 4                           | 2.38        |                                                                                                               |
| 29    | Ielangana           | I                          | 0.31        | 3                           | r.43        | 1                           | 1.42        |                             | l.l E       | I                               | 0.39        | 4                           | 1.97        |                                                                                                               |
| 30    | fripura             | 0                          | 0.00        | 0                           | 0.00        | 0                           | 0.00        | 0                           | 0.00        | 0                               | 0.00        | 0                           | 0.00 7.M    |                                                                                                               |
| 3l    | Uttar Pradesh       | I                          | 0.3 r       | 2                           | 0.58        | 9                           | 5.23 15     | 7                           | 3. l6       | 6                               | 2.41        | 9 2                         | 1.00        |                                                                                                               |
| 32    | Ittarakhand         | 0                          | 0.00        |                             | 0.40        | I                           |             |                             | 1.28        | 0                               | 0.00        |                             |             |                                                                                                               |
| 33    | West Bengal         | I                          | 0.E8        | 5                           | 5.31        | 2                           | 1.80        | I                           | 0.4E        | 0 tt4                           | 0.00        | 4                           | 2.63        |                                                                                                               |

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