As many as 35,440 meritorious students, who passed the High School Certificate (HSC) Examinations, conducted by the Board of Secondary Education (BSE), Odisha, will get the Chief Minister’s Merit Scholarship this year.
Guidelines prepared by the School and Mass Education Department clearly mentions about selection of the students and procedure to award the meritorious students under the Chief Minister’s Merit Scholarship programme. According to the guidelines, the meritorious students of both Government and aided Odia medium high schools securing high marks in the HSC Examination would be covered under the programme, which would begin from this year.
Sources said that 100 students from every block, 100 from each municipal corporation, 50 students from each municipality and 20 from every NAC would get the scholarship. Each student would receive Rs 5,000 as scholarship amount, which would be transferred to their bank account. The students would be identified within one month of announcement of Class X annual results, said officials. A committee headed by district Collector would be constituted in each district for identification of the students for the scholarship. The panel would also comprise District Education Officer (DEO) as the Convener and all the Block Education Officers as the members. The final merit list would be prepared on the basis of reports of the district panel.
From the budgetary provision of the School and Mass Education Department, funds would be sanctioned by June every year. The funds would be provided to the DEOs by July 15.
Then, the DEOs would transfer the scholarship amounts to bank accounts of the selected students between August and September.