National Scholarship Portal (NSP)

National Scholarships Portal is one-stop solution through which various services starting from student application, application receipt, processing, sanction and disbursal of various scholarships to Students are enabled. National Scholarships Portal is taken as Mission Mode Project under National e-Governance Plan (NeGP).

The Mission Mode Project (MMP) of National Scholarships Portal under the National e-Governance Plan aims at providing common electronic portal for implementing various Scholarships schemes launched by Union Government, State Government and Union Territories across the country.

Objectives
• Ensure timely disbursement of Scholarships to students
• Provide a common portal for various Scholarships schemes of Central and State Governments
• Create a transparent database of scholars
• Avoid duplication in processing
• Harmonisation of different Scholarships schemes & norms
• Application of Direct Benefit Transfer

Various Schemes for all categories (General, OBC, SC, ST, DNT etc.) are run by Central/State Governments on NSP portal like Top Class Education Scheme for SC Students, Post Matric Scholarship (PMS) for SC & BC Students and PM Young Achievers Scholarship Award Scheme for Vibrant India (PM-YASASVI) central sector scheme of top-class education in
college for OBC, EBC and DNT students runs by the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment.

Students may to visit the NSP Portal https://scholarships.gov.in for more information regarding procedure to apply for scholarship, eligibility, criteria etc.