Name of the Organisation : Eastern Naga Students' Federation
Name of the Scholarship : ENSF Pre-Matric Scholarship For Minorities 2014-15
Location : Nagaland

ENSF Pre-Matric Scholarship For Minorities 2014-15 :
In pursuance to the Prime Minister's new 15 Point Programme for the welfare of the minorities which was announced in the month of June 2006, the Eastern Naga Students' Federation (ENSF), in collaboration with the Department of School Education is initiating the Pre-Matric Minority scholarship for all the deserving students in the four districts of Eastern Nagaland.

Objective :
The objective of the Pre-Matric Scholarship is to encourage parents from Minority Communities to send their children to school, lighten their financial burden on school education and sustain their efforts to support their children to complete their education. Pre-Matric Scholarship for Minority is a scheme under the Ministry of Minority Affair (MOMA) which was commenced in the year 2008-09.

Scope :
The scope of the said scheme is to provide scholarship to students from class-1 to class-X studying in Government/ Recognized private schools & institutions in India. Scholarship will be awarded to the students who had secured not less than 50% marks in their previous final examination and annual income of their parents/guardian from all sources does not exceed Rs. 1 lakh.

As part of the sensitization campaign, the Federation along with its units will be assisting the students even up to the village level in filling up the forms. Deserving students and parents have been requested to be prepared all the necessary documents.

Application Procedure :
** Those who have applied earlier for the current year 2014-15 need not apply again. Respective DEO & SDEO have been requested to furnish the list of beneficiaries/applicant to the respective students union in order to avoid double entries.
** According to ENSF the documents required by August 10 include Bank account details of bonafide students and the institutions/school, fee statement letter from the school, affidavit on annual income & declaration of minority community, Passport photos, Birth certificate, students ID Card, PRC to be issued by the concern village council/ward chairman etc. Hostellers residing in the recognized Hostels of the institution should produce their fee statement letter from the institution/school. The last date is August 20.
** Meanwhile, the ENSF has appealed to all the concern national bank to initiate and access the students in opening their bank account within 5 days from the date of submission. Forms for opening bank account should be filled at the village level through students' unions.
** The Federation also appealed to the District Statistical Office to issue the birth certificate forms without any charges for the poor students under BPL.
** It further appealed to the District First Class Magistrate to give utmost importance & time for registration of those filled form/affidavit for easy convenience. Respective schools/institution have been asked to be ready with ID card, Fee statement letter, Minority declaration letter and school's bank account details by August 15.
** Respective VEC & Village council should bear the expenses incurred for all the poor students while processing for scholarshipm which can be reimbursed gradually.

Important Dates :
** The state level training for all the federating units would be held on August 7.
** Training at the district/block/village level students' unions would be completed by August 10.
** The duration for filling up the forms and collection of all necessary documents at the respective unit should be completed by August 15.
** All filled up respective forms should be submitted to the Bank, Judicial and District Statistical Office, which should be completed by August 20.
** After completion of all necessary procedures on time, it should be submitted to the respective SDEO office by August 25 and the same should reach Directorate on or before August 30.

Scholarship Amount :
** As per the guideline listed in the provision, an amount of Rs. 4000 per student should be directly transferred into the account of the institution for Classes 6-10. In case of fees already paid to the institution, it should be accordingly reimbursed on arrival of the scholarship. The Maintenance grant for all the students is Rs. 1000 for day scholar (Class-1 to 10) and Rs. 6000 per year per student for hostellers residing in the recognised hostels.
** According to 2013-14, Tuensang had received Rs. 2461200, Mon-Rs. 1847650, Kiphire-Rs. 10861360, Shamator- Rs. 3633300 and Longleng- Rs. 2520650. Respective students union have been directed to drive out the detail information from the respective SDEO on or before August 10.
** In the meantime, the federation acknowledged Kesonyu Yhome, principal director of School Education for the initiative to bring changes in the system that had polluted for so many decades.

Source : http://www.easternmirrornagaland.com...rship-2014-15/