The Ministry of Education, Science, and Technology has announced to provide scholarship worth Rs 7.39 billion in the current fiscal year (F/Y) 2081/82.
The scholarship will be provided to 1.5 million students from basic to higher education and technical education. The scholarship will be provided based on different bases.
Under the Residential Scholarship, 12,065 students will receive a scholarship amount of Rs 603.2 million. Students with physical disabilities, freed Kamalari, marginalized communities, street children, HIV-affected, and Badi community will also receive a scholarship of Rs 50,000 annually under this category.
Similarly, 1.54 million students will receive a scholarship amounting to Rs 627 million under Non-Residential Scholarship. This includes a scholarship of Rs 1,000 annually for girls studying in grade 1-5 under the Karnali Package.
Likewise, 552 thousand Dalit students studying class 1-5 will receive a scholarship amounting Rs 210 million under the Scholarship for Dalit.
A scholarship worth Rs 600 million has been allocated to underprivileged students under which students in grades 11-12 studying science will receive Rs 24,000 annually, while those studying other subjects will receive Rs 18,000. Students in grades 6-10 will receive Rs 6,000 annually.
Under the Technical Education Scholarship, Rs 59.4 million will be provided for students coming from Dalit, Muslim, and marginalized communities. They will receive a monthly living allowance of Rs 3,500, an annual transportation allowance of Rs 1,500, and a clothing allowance of Rs 2,000 annually.
Students coming from the family of martyrs, conflict victims, freed Kamalari, Muslim women, and disabled students at the undergraduate/postgraduate level will receive a yearly scholarship of Rs 24,000 under the Higher Education Scholarship.
For the economically disadvantaged students, a yearly scholarship of Rs 15,000 will be provided to those studying general subjects and Rs 21,000 will be provided to such students studying technical subjects. Rs 5.11 billion is allocated to 10,594 students under Medical Education Scholarship
