NMMS RESULT DECLARED
National Means cum Merit Scholarship Scheme (For Standard VIII)
National Means-Cum-Merit Scholarship is a Centrally sponsored scholarship scheme. It is implemented by the Department of School Education & Literacy under the Ministry of Human Resource Development with the objective to financially support the meritorious students of economically weaker sections of the society. NMMS encourages disadvantaged students to continue their studies at the secondary level by offering a scholarship amount of INR 12,000 per annum. Every year, this MCM scholarship is made active during the month of November and almost 100,000 scholarships are disbursed among bright students.
Applicable only for the meritorious and needy students of India, this MCM scholarship scheme expects all the applicants to fulfil the eligibility conditions mentioned below in order to be eligible for the selection test conducted to award the scholarship.
The candidates who wish to apply for this MCM scholarship must be regular students studying in class 9 after getting clear promotion from class 8 with a score of at least 55% or equivalent grades.
The candidates must be pursuing education from Government/Local Body/Government-aided schools.
For continuation of scholarship in higher secondary school, the candidate must score at least 60% marks in class 10 board exam.
For continuing the scholarship in class 12, the scholarship awardee must get clear promotion from class 11 in the first attempt itself with a score of 55% marks or equivalent. For students belonging to SC/ST category, a relaxation of 5% is given in marks.
The candidates’ annual family income should not be more than INR 1.5 Lakh.
Also, those students who are enrolled in NVS, KVS, Sainik schools and private schools are not eligible for this MCM scholarship.
NMMS – Application Process
If you wish to apply for NMMS, you must make sure that you fulfil all the eligibility conditions for this MCM scholarship. Then, the applicants can apply online for the scholarship through NSP. Given below is the step by step application guideline to help students complete their NMMS scholarship form without any difficulty.
First, the applicants need to register on the National Scholarship Portal (NSP) as a new user by filling all the correct information.
The candidates who are applying for the scholarship are advised to keep the scanned copies of all the relevant documents with them while beginning the application process.
Information like educational qualifications, Aadhaar card number, school enrolment number, bank details and the state domicile are required to be filled by the applying candidate.
An application ID of the candidate is generated upon registering on NSP. This application ID is used as ‘Login ID’ on NSP and for future references.
The applicant who is studying class 9 and 10 needs to apply under the Pre-Matric scholarship category whereas the candidate who is studying in class 11 and 12 needs to apply under Post Matric scholarship category.
The applicant must be careful while filling details like applicant’s name, date of birth, email ID, identification details and mobile number.
Upload all the necessary documents and save the details as a draft.
After making sure that all filled-in information is correct and appropriate, the candidate needs to finally submit the completed application form.
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