IIT BHU Scholarships 2024 - Details, Eligibility, Amount

1. The Scheme of Top Class Education for SC students has been selected for implementation through NSP. 

2. In this regard it is emphasized here that in 2016-17, all proposals of Scholarships under the Scheme, including both fresh & renewal, are to     be forwarded to the Department of SJ& E through NSP.

3. For the grant of Scholarship(for fresh batch of students) the procedure to be adopted and the set of instructions may be seen at     Annexure - A

4. Candidates are to be selected for grant of Scholarship as per the the slots available to the Institute under the Scheme. The online     applications must be forwarded by the Institutes to this Department by 31st October, 2016. No. application for the grant of Scholarship would     be entertained without Aadhaar number and the number should also be seeded with the bank account of the beneficiaries.

5. In case of any querriesfrom the ministry, mail can be sent at the following mail ID dbtcell.msje@nic.in

The Rajiv Gandhi National Fellowship (RGNF) scheme for Scheduled Tribes has been renamed as National Fellowship for Higher Education of ST Students and is formulated and funded by Ministry of Tribal Affairs. The scheme is open to candidates who belong to Scheduled Tribe and are pursuing higher studies such as regular and full time M.Phil and Ph.D degree in Sciences, Humanities, Social Sciences and Engineering & Technology. There are 750 slots for Scheduled Tribe candidates every year for all the subjects.

IIT (BHU), Varanasi offers scholarships for the benefit of the students. There is a Merit-cum-Means scholarship which is offered to 25% of undergraduate students. Apart from this, there are several endowment scholarships offered by the Institute for the students. All the students (non-sponsored) admitted to M.Tech./M.Pharm. programmes are provided financial Assistance equivalent to the Junior Research Fellowships. For undergraduate students, some other facilities are also provided like free studentship, scholarship, reimbursement of mess charges and pocket allowances to the  Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes students. For the students admitted to PhD programmes, for them, the institute offers a large number of Junior/Senior Research Fellowships.