அரசு உதவி பெறும் கல்லூரிகளில் 20% கூடுதலாக மாணவர் சேர்க்கை: உயர்கல்வித்துறை அனுமதி

அரசு உதவி பெறும் கல்லூரிகளில் 20% கூடுதலாக மாணவர் சேர்க்கைக்கு உயர்கல்வித்துறை அனுமதி வழங்கியுள்ளது. சுயநிதி கல்லூரியில் 10% கூடுதலாக மாணவர் சேர்க்கை நடத்திக் கொள்ள நிபந்தனைகளுடன் உயர்கல்வித்துறை அனுமதி வழங்கியுள்ளது. கூடுதல் மாணவர் சேர்க்கையினால் கூடுதல் பணியிடங்கள் கூறக்கூடாது என உயர்கல்வித்துறை நிபந்தனை விதித்துள்ளது.

Vidyadhan Scholarship for +1 Students

About Vidyadhan

Vidyadhan Scholarship Program from Sarojini Damodaran Foundation supports the college education of meritorious students from economically challenged families. The students are selected after completion of 10th grade /SSLC through a rigorous selection process including test and interview. Currently Vidyadhan program has around 5000 students across the following states: Kerala, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Pondicherry, Andhra Pradesh, Gujarat, Maharashtra, Telangana, Goa, Odisha, New Delhi and Ladhak.

Those selected will be eligible for two year scholarship from the Foundation. If they continue to do well, they will be given scholarship for pursuing any degree course of their interest; these scholarships are directly through the foundation or external sponsors who have registered with the Foundation. The scholarship amount for graduation courses varies from Rs 10,000 to Rs 60,000 per year depending on the state, course, duration etc. The selected students will be required to attend the mentoring programs from the Foundation.

Students can apply free of cost on the website direclty. No other person or institutions have been authorized to select students on our behalf.

Scholarship Programs

Please see below for the currently open scholarship programs. Click on the program to see related information.

Scholarship Amounts

Scholarship amounts for 11th and 12th grades will be a maximum of Rs. 10,000/- year

Who Can Apply?

Students whose family annual income is less than Rs. 2 Lakhs and who have completed their 10th grade/BSEB exam in the year 2022 from Bihar. They should also have scored 80% or obtained 8 CGPA in their 10th Grade/SSC examination. The cutoff mark for students with disability is 65%. or 6.5 CGPA

Selection Process

SDF will shortlist the applicants based on their academic performance and the information provided in the application form. The shortlisted candidates will be invited for a short online test/interview.

Important Dates:
  • 30th September 2022: Application last date
  • 9th October 2022: Screening Test
  • 20th October to 23rd October 2022: Interview/Tests will be scheduled during this time frame. Exact date and location will be intimated to each of the shortlisted candidates.
Required Documents
  • Scanned copies of the following are required
    1. 10th Marksheet   (If original marksheet is not available , you can upload provisional /online marksheet from the SSLC/CBSE/ICSC website.)
    2. Photograph  
    3. Income Certificate   (from a competent authority; ration card not accepted.)
Contact Details

How To Apply? :

  1. You need to have a personal Email Account to apply online. DO NOT USE THE EMAIL ID of cyber café/DTP centre since all future communications will be sent to the registered email id. If you do not have an email ID, please create a new account in www.gmail.com or with any other email service providers. Please memorize the email login and password for future use.
  2. While registering a new account you will be asked for details like:
    1. First Name: Please mention your first name as per your educational records.
    2. Last Name: Please mention your last name as per your educational records.
    3. Email ID: Please mention your email address and do not forget to regularly check this email account for our intimation. For future login, use the email id.
    4. Vidyadhan Password: Please choose a complex password for the user name you have created above. The Password should have at least 8 characters. This password is not same as the password you have created for the email id. When you log into the vidyadhan application next time, you have to use the email id and the vidyadhan password you have created. Please remember it; do not write it anywhere for security reasons. If you forget the password then you can retrieve it by clicking “Forgot Password” link in the Home Page.
  3. Click on “Apply Now ” button. An email will be sent to your email account with account activation link.
  4. Please open your email in a new window and open the account activation email. Click on the activation link provided in that email. This will open the home page with a message that Account is activated and a login form to proceed further.
  5. Please login with the email id and the vidyadhan password that you have entered in Step 2 above while registering a new account.
  6. After you login you can see a link “Help” on the main menu. You can click on that link to read help and instructions for creating an application, updating and tracking it.
  7. Please select the appropriate scholarship program from the list available programs and click on the ‘Apply Now’ button to create your application.
  8. After creating the application you can edit it and make changes by clicking on Edit Application on top of the application.
  9. After you complete the application and submit, you will get a message “submission successful”. However please note that the application will be considered complete only after you upload the mandatory documents and photograph.
  10. Please check your email regularly for communication and updates from SDF.

Vidyadhan provides scholarships from Grade 11 onwards till graduation.

Scholarships range from Rs. 10,000 to Rs 60,000 per year, through the duration of their course.

Over 23,000 Free UGC Courses to be Offered on New Portal, Read Details

The University Grants Commission (UGC) has decided to offer more than 23,000 free UGC courses on its new higher education portal. These courses will constitute 23,000 postgraduate courses, 25 non-engineering SWAYAM courses, and 137 SWAYAM MOOC courses in emerging areas. 

All of the abovementioned courses will be offered free of charge to enhance “the accessibility of higher education in remote parts of the country”, says UGC. The portal will be launched today – Friday (29 July) – and will include programmes in nine languages. 

Free UGC Courses – Overview

UGC Announcement Free UGC Courses to Students via New Higher Education Portal
No. of CoursesMore than 23,000
Launch Date29 July 2022
Included ProgrammesArtificial Intelligence (AI)  Cyber Security  Biomolecules: Structure Function in Health & Disease  Early Childhood Care & Education  Animation  & More
Language of InstructionHindi, Tamil, Bangla, Marathi, Gujarati, Malayalam, Telugu, Kannada, and English (nine in total )
How to Access Courses?Using Smartphones, Tablets, and Laptops/Computers By Visiting UGC Common Service Centres (CSC) and Special Purpose Vehicle (SPV) Centres
Portal Launched ByUGC and Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY)
Portal LinkTo be Updated 

Free UGC Courses – Important Details

  • The UGC portal for the free courses will be launched as a part of the second anniversary of the National Education Policy 2020. 
  • To do so, the commission is working in collaboration with the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY). 
  • To offer the courses on the portal, the ministry will integrate the e-resources along with their Common Service Centres (CSC) and Special Purpose Vehicle (SPV) centres on the UGC free courses portal.
  • UGC has designated 7.5 lakh CSCs and SPVs that will help impart these courses for the 2022-23 academic session.
  • There are a total of 23,000 postgraduate courses, 137 SWAYAM MOOC courses, and 25 non-engineering SWAYAM courses on the free UGC course portal.
  • The courses will be made available in nine languages – Hindi, Tamil, Bangla, Marathi, Gujarati, Malayalam, Telugu, Kannada, and English.
  • Students can use these free UGC courses to gain knowledge about the subjects they are learning in college or to take upto 40% credit of the courses and store them in the Academic Bank of Credit (ABC) system. 
  • The commission will also offer degrees through its Digital University, when the university is launched. For now, students can earn 40% of their course credits from these free courses. 

How to Access the Free UGC Courses?

Students can access the free UGC courses in two ways: 

  1. Directly: Through their smartphones
  2. Indirectly: By visiting the Common Service Centres (CSC) and Special Purpose Vehicle (SPV) centres located near them. 

How to Access Free UGC Courses Directly?

To do so, the candidate needs:

  • A smartphone, tablet, or laptop/computer.
  • A stable internet connection.

Once these two things are procured, the candidate can:

  • Visit the free UGC courses portal
  • Create a new account for free
  • Get access to the courses
  • Start studying

How to Access Free UGC Courses Indirectly?

This method can be used if the candidate does not have a smartphone and stable internet connection. In such a case, they can visit the nearest Common Service Centres (CSC) and Special Purpose Vehicle (SPV) centres located in their villages, towns, and cities. 

Since there are 7 lakh 50 thousand of these centres around the country, candidates will be able to find them easily. 

These centres are being managed by local entrepreneurs, also known as village level entrepreneurs (VLEs). The centres have computers and internet connectivity that students can benefit from. Although there are no charges for accessing the courses, the student has to pay a fee of Rs 20 per day (or Rs 500 per month) to use the computers and the internet facility at the centres. This is done so as to reimburse the VLEs efforts and cost of their infrastructure.

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UGC to launch portal for online courses

The University Grants Commission, in collaboration with MeiTY, will launch a portal to offer undergraduate and postgraduate digital courses in eight languages for the benefit of rural students

On Friday, the University Grants Commission will launch a portal to offer undergraduate and postgraduate digital courses. The UGC is collaborating with the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) for this purpose.

The Commission will integrate its e-resources with the ministry’s common service centres (CSC) and special purpose vehicle (SPV) centres.

UGC chairman M. Jagadesh Kumar said the commission had tied up with MeitY recently not only “to make the last mile connectivity a possibility” but also ensure students could access the content in regional languages besides English.

Over five lakh CSCs and SPVs are functioning across the country. They are run by village-level entrepreneurs to provide e-governance services at people’s doorstep.

The UGC is tapping into this internet connectivity to offer 137 Swayam MOOC courses and 23,000 PG courses in 25 subjects. They include artificial intelligence; academic writing; corporate law, cyber security, and digital library.

The courses will be available in eight languages, including Hindi, Tamil, Bangla, Marathi, Gujarati, Telugu, Malayalam and Kannada besides English.

“The courses will be available on a single portal. It is launched as part of the second anniversary of National Education Policy 2020. Students can access all these courses immediately through CSC/SPVs across the country or on their own devices with internet connectivity,” said Mr. Kumar.

Though the courses are offered for free, students will have to pay service charges amounting to ₹20 a day or ₹500 a month for using the CSC/SVP. The money would be used to reimburse the village-level entrepreneurs who run the centres and the cost of infrastructure, Mr. Kumar said.

Source : https://www.thehindu.com/news

Moovalur Ramamirtham Ammaiyar Higher Education Assurance Scheme – மூவலூர் ராமாமிர்தம் அம்மையார் உயர்கல்வி உறுதி திட்டம்

The Government of TamilNadu has launched Moovalur Ramamirtham Ammaiyar Higher Education Assurance Scheme to enhance the enrolment ratio of girls from Government schools to Higher Education Institutions. Through this scheme, the financial assistance of Rs. 1000/month will be provided to the girls till their completion of UG degree/Diploma/ITI/any other recognized course. The incentive amount under this scheme will be disbursed directly into the student’s Bank Account
https://penkalvi.tn.gov.in/https://penkalvi.tn.gov.in

அரசுப்பள்ளிகளில் படித்த மாணவியர் உயர்கல்வி பயிலும் விகிதத்தினை அதிகரிக்கும் வகையில் மூவலூர் இராமாமிர்தம் அம்மையார் உயர்கல்வி உறுதித்திட்டம் தமிழ்நாடு அரசால் தொடங்கப்படுள்ளது .இத்திட்டத்தின் கீழ் தொழில் நுட்பக் கல்வி, கலை மற்றும் அறிவியல் போன்ற இளநிலை கல்வி பயிலும் மாணவிகளுக்கு மாதம் தோறும் ரூபாய் 1000 வழங்கப்படும். இத்தொகை மாணவியின் வங்கி கணக்கில் நேரடியாக வழங்கப்படும்.