Through Samagra Education Portal, 1 crore 84 lakh students of Government and private schools of Madhya Pradesh are being provided online scholarships. For this, data of all school students has been compiled.
Scholarships are sanctioned and directly deposited in eligible students’ bank accounts by code-wise mapping of data with schools. Entire process of sanction and distribution of scholarship has been made online. The school education department is undertaking this process at a rapid pace.
Under Samagra Social Security Mission, a student has to apply and submit attested caste certificate only once. Students will not have to wander about for this. Under this ambitious scheme of the State Government, now arrangements for free text-books, uniform and cycles are also being made through Samagra Education Portal.
Mapping of 72 per cent students i.e. one crore 35 lakh out of total one crore 83 lakh students has been completed. Scholarships worth Rs294 crore have been sanctioned to 54 lakh out of 80 lakh students. E-payment of Rs105 crore 65 lakh has been made from the treasury to beneficiary students.
Arrangements are being made to give scholarships to talented girls, who are single child of their parents provided that they secure over 60 per cent marks and take admission as regular students in class XI and XII. System of payment is also prevalent under Samagra Scholarship Scheme. It is noteworthy that Social Security Programme was adopted as point number 37 of Sankalp-2010 in Vidhan Sabha.
Under it, 30 types of scholarship schemes of 9 departments have been integrated without changing original nature, scholarship rates and eligibility norms of various schemes. School education department has been appointed as nodal department for Integrated Scholarship Scheme.