India Education & Career

The Ambedkar National Merit Scholarship is given to three students scoring highest marks in the regular Class X-level-examination conducted by the State Education Board/All India Board. Students securing highest, second highest and third highest marks are given Rs. 60,000/-, Rs. 50,000/- and Rs. 40,000/- respectively. Girl student securing highest marks in case she is not in the above three categories, is given a cash award of Rs. 40,000/-. The scheme provides for separate provisions both for scheduled castes and scheduled tribes.

The country is over sixteen per cent and that of Scheduled Tribes eight per cent and thus these two categories constitute one-fourth of the country’s total population.