Aimed at meeting the needs of high school students from financially backward forward castes, across the state, Kerala State Welfare Corporation for Forward Castes, announced the issuance of ‘Vidya Samunnathi Scholarship’ for the academic year 2017 – 18. The students studying in class 8, 9, and 10 across govt. and aided schools in the State are eligible for applying the scholarship. Those who receive any other scholarship, are not eligible to apply for this scholarship. It also mandates that the students should have scored a minimum of 70% marks in their previous annual examinations; the family income should not exceed INR 2 lakhs per annum.
The selected students will get a scholarship amount of INR 2000 per year, while the number of scholarships is restricted to 22,000. Visit www.kswcfc.org for more details.
General Guidelines/Eligibility:
- Applicants should not belong to any reserved category of the state of Kerala
- Applicant should register themselves in the data bank at www.kswcfc.org (onetime registration) and should submit the application using the same registration number.
- Annual family income from all sources should be less than Rs.200000(2 lakh).
- Applications should be submitted online mode and scanned copies of all the required documents should be submitted along with the application.
- There is no renewal scheme for ‘Vidya Samunnathi Scholarship’ so students should submit fresh application each year.
- Applicants should posses a bank account at any nationalized/scheduled bank.
- ‘Vidya Samunnathi Scholarship’ is depend on the fund from the government and the allocation of scholarship will be in the order of ‘lowest family income first’.
- Scholarship amount is transferred only to the account in the name of the Applicant (Student)
- There will be option to correct the application if any till the last date. Wrong/incomplete applications will be rejected.
- Applicants/Students secured any other scholarship from Central or State government is not be eligible for the ‘Vidya Samunnathi Scholarship’.
- Applicants/Students Do Not Send the hard copy of the online application or document to the Kerala State Welfare Corporation for Forward Communities.
- Any decision by Kerala State Welfare Corporation for Forward Communities, regarding the delivery of scholarship is final and no means of appeal is entertained.
Last Date for Submitting Application for 2017 – 2018 : 15.11.2017
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