The Union Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment has issued provisional scholarship letters to 40 out of 106 selected candidates for the 2025-’26 National Overseas Scholarship, saying that the remaining 66 will receive theirs “subject to availability of funds”.
In previous years, all selected candidates were issued letters at the same time, the Hindustan Times reported.
The National Overseas Scholarship, which began in 1954-’55, supports students from Scheduled Castes, Denotified Nomadic Tribes, semi-nomadic tribes, landless agricultural labourers and traditional artisan communities.
The scheme funds master’s or PhD degrees at the top 500 global universities as per QS rankings, offering up to $16,920, or nearly Rs 14.5 lakh, annually for a maximum duration of three years for master’s programmes and four years for PhD programmes.
It provides 125 scholarships annually, capped at 10% per state. The applicants must have a family income under Rs 8 lakh per annum.
The QS World University Rankings are a ranking of the world’s top universities produced by Quacquarelli Symonds and published annually since 2004.
In the Union Budget announced in February, the Centre allocated Rs 130 crore to the National Overseas Scholarship for 2025-’26.
This was a 36.84% increase from Rs 95 crore in 2024–’25, the newspaper reported. As of December, the ministry had disbursed Rs 56.29 crore to 80 beneficiaries for the academic year 2024-’25.
In a notice dated July 1,...
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