Panaji: With an aim to help minority community students pursue higher education, the Government of Goa has invited applications for its Post Matric Scholarship scheme.

The objective of the scheme is to award scholarship to meritorious students belonging to economically weaker sections of Minority Communities.

Students belonging to the minority communities (notified by the Central Government under Section 2© of the National Commission for Minorities Act, 1992) who are pursuing higher education from class XI up to the Ph.D level are eligible to apply for the scholarship.

This also includes technical / vocational courses of Industrial Training Institutes / Industrial Training Centres (affiliated with NCVT / Goa University) in Government-aided institutes recognized by appropriate authority for Post Matric Scholarship to be awarded by the Ministry of Minority Affairs (Government of India).

Application in the prescribed format along with requisite documents should be submitted to the Department of Social Welfare latest by August 30, 3008 through the Head of the school / college / institute of the student. The last date of receipt of application is August 31, 2008.

For more details, interested candidates are requested to contact the Director of Social Welfare, Panaji (Goa).

By - Sanjay Borkar

Sanjay Borkar is a freelance journalist with the National Network of Education (NNE).