ICAR - Post Matric Scholarship For Scheduled Caste / Scheduled Tribes Candidates

This scholarship is exclusively meant for students belonging to Scheduled Castes / Scheduled Tribes communities as defined by Government of India. Only those students who have been admitted in Agricultural Universities in any of the undergraduate degree programmes of Agriculture & Allied Sciences will be eligible for this scholarship.

The value of the scholarship will be Rs.300/- p.m. along with a contingent grant of Rs.750/- per annum for the payment of tuition fee, purchase of books and cost of uniform etc.

The duration of the scholarship will cover the whole of the normal period of the particular degree programme to which the candidate is admitted.

The scheme provides for the award of 240 scholarships every year. These scholarships will be earmarked for individual Agricultural Universities in proportion to the actual number of scheduled castes / scheduled tribes candidates admitted. A tentative distribution of scholarships will first be made to various agricultural universities on the basis of seats reserved by the individual agricultural universities for SC/ST candidates. The actual number of scholarship allotted to the universities every year would, however, be determined on the basis of actual SC/ST students admitted so as to maintain approximately equal proportion between the number of SC/ST students admitted in each university to the number of scholarships available.

The student who accepts this scholarship will not be permitted to avail of any other scholarship/concession provided by any other agencies nor permitted to accept any part-time employment.

Termination of Scholarship:- The scholarship will be terminated without notice (i) from the date the scholar debases to be on the roll of the institution or on the date of expiry of the sanction of the scholarship whichever is earlier. The scholarship can also be terminated without notice at any time if in the opinion of the institution and the Council the scholar is found to be negligent in his/her studies or is guilty of misconduct; (ii) if the scholar is dropped by the institution due to peer performance.

In the case of married women, the scholarship will be admissible at full rates upto three months' absence on grounds of maternity. However, no scholarship will be paid for a period exceeding three months.

Bachelor's Degree program in various branches of Agriculture, viz. B.Sc.(Agri.), B.V.Sc., B.Sc.(Agril. Engg.), B.Sc.(Home Science), B.F.Sc., B.Sc.(Forestry) etc.

The scheme provides for the award of 240 scholarships every year.

These scholarships will be earmarked for individual Agricultural Universities in proportion to the actual number of scheduled castes / scheduled tribes candidates admitted.