Government extends deadline for scholarship applications by minority students

NEW DELHI: The government has extended the deadline for online submission of applications by minority students for availing pre-matric and post-matric scholarships this academic year by one month.

The students can submit their applications till August 31 now, Union Minister of State for Minority Affairs (independent charge) Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi said in a statement.

"The Ministry has taken the decision keeping in mind a large number of requests and suggestions received from people across the country regarding extension of last date for submission of online applications for students belonging to minority communities," the statement quoted him as saying.

The aim of offering scholarships at pre-matric level is to encourage parents from the communities to send their children to schools, lighten their financial burden on school education, the statement reads.

Similarly, the objective behind giving post-matric scholarship is to award meritorious students from economically weaker sections of minority community so as to provide them better opportunities for higher education, it said.