♻️About Umbrella Scheme ‘SHREYAS’ :

✅SHREYAS comprises 4 central sector sub-schemes namely :

🔸Top Class Education for SCs
The scheme aims at recognizing and promoting quality education amongst students belonging to the SC category by providing full financial support.

🔸This entails a scholarship for studies after the 12th standard.

🔸Family income to be under Rs 8 lakh per annum for eligibility.

🔸Free Coaching Scheme for SCs and OBCs

🔸Provides coaching of good quality for economically disadvantaged SC and OBC candidates to enable them to appear in competitive and entrance examinations for obtaining appropriate jobs in the Public/Private Sector as well as for securing admission in reputed technical and professional higher education institutions.

🔸3500 slots allotted per annum.

🔸Family income to be under Rs 8 lakh per annum for eligibility.

🔸SC:OBC student ratio – 70:30
30% of slots are reserved for females in each category.

🔸National Overseas Scheme for SCs
Financial assistance is provided to the selected students from SCs (115 slots); De-notified, Nomadic and Semi-Nomadic Tribes (6 slots); landless agricultural labourers and traditional artisan categories (4 slots), for pursuing masters and Ph.D. level courses abroad.

✅Eligibility criteria : Family income under Rs 8 lakh/year, acquired more than 60% marks in the qualifying examination, is below 35 years of age and has secured admission in top 500 QS ranking foreign institutes/universities.

✅National Fellowship for SCs
Fellowship is provided to Scheduled Castes students for pursuing higher education leading to M.Phil/PhD degrees in Sciences, Humanities and Social Sciences in Indian Universities/Institutions/Colleges recognized by the University Grants Commission (UGC).

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