More Than 47000 Mizoram Students Receive Central Scholarships

Mizoram’s Scholarship Board Secretary JH Zoremthanga has said that 90 % of tribal scholarship has been issued to the meritorious students and the Central government has directly deposited the amount to the respective account of the students. As many as 47,685 students who are in standard 1st to 10th have so far received scholarship. However, there was some mistake while depositing scholarship as in some cases the

student was given an amount more than what he has to receive and in other case the student received less than what he should get.

Zoremthanga said that the scholarship board has taken back the excess amount deposited to the student’s account and also asked the students to return the amount which they received in surplus.

In the ongoing minority scholarship scheme, students who are in standard 1 to 5 are given Rs 1000 and students who are in class 5 to 10 are given Rs 5000. Altogether, 47,685 students have so far received tribal scholarship.

With launching of digital India by Modi government, Ministry of Minority has directly deposited scholarship to the bank account of all merit students without any involvement of state scholarship board.