The pre matric scholarship has now been limited to Class IX and X in Government schools only under OBC category.

This has been done in order to rationalise the scholarship as per the following:

1. The Right to Education (RTE) Act, 2009 makes it obligatory for the Government to provide free and compulsory elementary education (classes I to VIII) to each and every child. Accordingly only students studying in classes IX and X are covered under the pre- matric scholarship scheme for OBC.

2. The amount of scholarship has been increased and made uniform today scholars and hostellers.

The number of students covered by the Scheme till the last three years and the amount incurred, year-wise and State-wise, is given in Annexure I.

Total of 5.67 crore students are likely to be benefitted under the Scheme during the period of five years over the XV Finance Commission Cycle.

   Annexure-I

State-wise details of achievements under the Scheme of Pre-Matric Scholarship for OBC Students during the last three years

Amount and beneficiaries in lakh
		2019-20		2020-21		2021-22
S.No.	States/ UTs	Funds Released	No. of Beneficiaries	Funds Released	No. of Beneficiaries	Funds Released	No. of Beneficiaries
1	Andhra Pradesh	841.00	0.11	967.00	$	199.50	$
2	Bihar	1128.668	60.22	0.00	104.99	4000.00	$
3	Chhattisgarh	0.00	0	577.40	8.37	104.50	$
4	Goa	19.50	0.23	34.51	$	10.00	0.01
5	Gujarat	800.00	1.03	800.00	1.01	800.00	$
6	Haryana	190.00	$	0.00	$	0.00	$
7	Himachal Pradesh	0.00	0	141.55	0.10	30.00	0.1311
8	Jammu & Kashmir	150.32	0.35	0.00	0.17	80.00	$
9	Jharkhand	955.85	0.34	650.00	8.61	2000.00	2.27
10	Karnataka	1741.85	15.34	1384.84	11.25	2500.00	8.47603
11	Kerala	962.51	2.31	756.82	2.40	1800.00	$
12	Madhya Pradesh	0.00	0	0.00	$	0.00	$
13	Maharashtra	0.00	0	0.00	5.97	1508.08	5.30915
14	Odisha	717.00	1.21	825.00	1.37	788.99	0.58775
15	Punjab	775.26	2.21	546.00	2.10	114.50	2.17871
16	Rajasthan	1115.29	1.66	1555.06	6.37	2972.55	$
17	Tamil Nadu	1896.00	1.11	1633.275	1.61	2694.715	$
18	Telangana	0.00	0	0.00	0.03	0.00	1.00
19	Uttar Pradesh	5590.35	3.27	4081.00	6.99	848.00	11.2119
20	Uttarakhand	0.00	0	228.89	0.22	50.00	0.09214
21	West Bengal	2592.15	4.28	2069.20	4.22	544.00	3.13
22	Assam	0.00	0	0.00	0.03	81.648	$
23	Manipur	0.00	0.03	72.31	0.05	124.756	Nil
24	Sikkim	7.31	0.01	7.79	0.01	7.720	0.00484
25	Tripura	350.00	0.66	215.275	0.24	214.94	$
26	A & N Island	15.06	0	26.05	$	10.50	$
27	Chandigarh	10.00	0.01	8.15	$	14.50	$
28	D & N Haveli	0.795	0		$	33.00	Nil
29	Daman & Diu	74.145	0	8.25	$	22.00	Nil
30	Delhi	183.00	0.11	0.00	0.07	223.75	0.03
31	Puducherry	41.25	0.03	3.00	0.03	51.25	$
	Total:	20157.31	94.52	16591.37	166.200	21828.90	34.43
	$ Not reported by Implementing Agencies

 

Note: (i) The beneficiaries includes the students from class I to VIII also as the new scheme is being implemented w.e.f. 2022-23.

(ii) The number of beneficiaries shown against a particular year may also include beneficiaries of previous year reported together during the subsequent year.

This information was given by The Minister of Social Justice and Empowerment Dr. Virendra Kumar  in the Rajya Sabha in a written reply today.

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