THE LAST DATE FOR PRE- MATRIC SCHOLARSHIP APPLICATION IS FEB. 28

Panaji : February 26, 2025

Directorate of Social Welfare are inviting applications for Pre- matric Scholarship from the children of parents who are engaged in occupation involving cleaning and prone to health hazards to be awarded by the Ministry of Social Justice & Empowerment, New Delhi from class I upto X in Government/ recognized private schools/ recognized institute.

It is further informed that the Hazardous Cleaning means an employee, in relation to a sewer or septic tank, means its manual cleaning by such employee without the employer fulfilling his obligations to provide protective gear and other cleaning devices and ensuring observance of safety precautions as prescribed in the Prohibition of Employment as Manual Scavengers and their Rehabilitation Act 2013 or rules made there under.

The amount of scholarship is for Std I to X Rs 225/- p.m for 10 months and Ad-hoc grant of Rs 750/- per annum to Day Scholars where as an amount of schorlarship for Std III to X is Rs 700/- p.m for 10 months and Ad-hoc grant of Rs 1000/- per annum for hostellers. The last date to submit the application in the prescribed format through the head of institution to the Directorate of Social Welfare, Panaji is February 28, 2025.

DI/INF/AXP/NP/PD/SN/2025/1224