Deadline– 10 June 2013
The Ministry of Overseas Indian Affairs (MOIA), Government of India has announced scholarship program for Diaspora Children (SPDC) to pursue courses offered by the MOIA. The mission of this program is to offer scholarship opportunities to wards of Persons of Indian Origin (PIOs) and Non-Resident Indians (NRIs) to assist them in pursuing Under Graduate University Education in India.
Fields of study are-
- Engineering/Architecture/Technology
- Humanities/Liberal Arts
- Commerce
- Management: BBA/BBM
- Computers: BCA
- Journalism
- Hotel Management
- Agriculture/Animal Husbandry
- Sciences
- Law
- Ayurveda
Eligibility & Criteria-
- The SPDC is open for applicants in the age group of 17 to 21 years as on 1st October 2013. In other words, applicants born on or after 1st October, 1992 and before 1st October, 1996 are eligible to apply for it. Date of birth as recorded in the Secondary Education Board/University Certificate of Class 10th or equivalent, or as mentioned in a certificate for this purpose issued by appropriate Government authorities of respective countries will be taken as authentic for this purpose.
- Applicants must be
- a Persons of Indian Origin (PIO) and a citizen of a country listed in the Appendix-A mentioned in website
- an Indian National studying abroad. The Indian Nationals must have had at least 3 (three) years of education in foreign countries listed in Appendix-A during the last 6 (six) years and must have passed the qualifying examination inclusive of 11th and 12th standard or equivalent (not beyond), from countries listed in Appendix-A in website
- The candidate must have passed the Senior Secondary (10+2) or equivalent examination from a system of education recognized by the Association of Indian Universities (AIU), with requisite subjects.
- The candidate must have secured a minimum of 60% aggregate marks or equivalent grades in aggregate of all the subjects in the qualifying examination.
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