National Scholarship Portal (NSP) – scholarships.gov.in Registration, Application, Renewal & Benefits

The National Scholarship Portal (NSP) is a one-stop solution for applying to various educational schemes and scholarship services starting from student application, application processing, sanction of scholarship or scheme benefits and disbursal of scholarships to the eligible students.

The National Scholarship Portal (NSP) is taken as a ‘Mission Mode Project’ under the National e-Governance Plan (NeGP). It is a common portal containing various Central Government, University Grants Commission (UGC), All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE), and state government scholarships schemes.

The NSP ensures timely disbursement of scholarships to students and avoids duplication in processing. It aims to create a transparent database of scholars and harmonise different scholarships schemes and norms. The scholarships are disbursed through Direct Benefit Transfer to the eligible students.

National scholarship Last Date Extended

To encourage education the government provides scholarships to all eligible students. This scholarship is provided every year. For the year 2021, the last date to apply for a scholarship has been extended by the government. The higher education director of the state has issued a notification to all the schools, colleges, universities. In this notification, he has asked all the educational institutions to ensure that all the eligible students apply for the scholarship before the last date. All the school students for level 1.1 and level 1.2 can apply for scholarships till 31st December 2020. The last date of the first phase verification is 31st January 2021 and the last date of 2nd phase verification is 28 February 2021. All the minority students who wish to apply for the scholarship on pre metric, post matriculation, and merit basis will have to apply before 31st December 2020