The Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment (MoSJE) implements a Centrally Sponsored ‘Post-Matric Scholarship Scheme for SC students' through the State Governments/Union Territory Administrations.

The scheme is open-ended and demand driven. The disbursement of the Central share is contingent upon the States verifying the applications received under the Scheme and releasing their 40% State share (10% for North-Eastern States) and subsequently providing the State share paid data to the Centre for further release of 60 % central share (90% for North-Eastern States) of scholarship directly into the Aadhaar seeded Bank Account of the beneficiaries through Direct Benefit Transfer (DBT) mode. 

The details of Revised Estimates (RE) and Actual Expenditure (AE) for last five financial years are as tabulated below:

Year	Revised Estimate (RE) (Rs. In Cr)	Actual Expenditure (AE)  (Rs. In Cr)
2020-21	3815.87	4010.16
2021-22	4196.59	1978.56
2022-23	5660.00	4392.50
2023-24	5400.00	5475.42
2024-25	5500.00	5581.52

This information was provided by UNION MINISTER OF STATE FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE AND EMPOWERMENT, SHRI RAMDAS ATHAWALE, in a written reply to a question in Rajya Sabha today.

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