Meghalaya Govt spent Rs 12.9 Cr for implementation of revised rate of post matric scholarship

Syllad | The Rising MeghalayaNovember 2, 2020

Education minister, Lahkmen Rymbui on Monday announced the implementation of revised rate of the Post Matric Umbrella Scheme of Scholarship as decided by the Fee Fixation Committee and notified by the state government for the academic year (AY) 2019-2020.

He said the long overdue revision was taken last year to benefit the poor and needy students of the state. This was also done after a gap of six years since the last revision was in 2014.

“Actually the (previous) government should have reviewed this issue once in every two years but six years have passed, no one has taken care to address this issue and our students continue to get scholarships at a lower rate,” the minister said.

The revised scholarship was divided into four categories that include Group-I – Ph.D, M Phil, MBBS, B.Tech, M.Tech, MBA etc, Group-II include most of the post graduate courses including LLM etc, Group-III include most of the undergraduate courses and Group-IV include diploma courses, class XI, Class XII etc.

“Out of a total verified application of 7,181 beneficiaries, actual payment was made to 6,286 beneficiaries so far, payments for remaining are in process,” Rymbui said while informing that the amount spent so far is Rs 12.9 crore.

Meanwhile under group-I category, 361 students will receive scholarship ranging between Rs 40,500 (day scholars) to Rs 47,000 (hostellers) compared to pre-revised rates of Rs 10,735 (day scholars) to Rs 17,235 (hostellers).

In group-II, 1,931 students will receive scholarship ranging between Rs 30,300 (day scholars) to Rs 33,200 (hostellers) from pre revised rate was at Rs 9,935 (day scholars) to Rs 12,835 (hostellers), for group-III, 3,374 students to receive scholarship ranging between Rs 23,000 (day scholars) to Rs 25,700 (hostellers) from the pre revised rate which was at Rs 5,235 (day scholars) to Rs 7,935 (hostellers) and for group-IV, 1,515 students to receive scholarship ranging between Rs 17,300 (day scholars) to Rs 18,800 (hostellers) from the pre revised rate at Rs 5,205 (day scholars) to Rs 6,705 (hostellers).