September 30, 2016
Overseas Scholarships for Backward Class Students is the financial assistance given to 1000 BC students pursuing higher studies in Post Graduate Courses in Foreign Universities from the year 2016-17. Overseas Scholarships for BC students is conducted by Government of Andhra Pradesh for promoting the merit students of BC Category to pursue their Post-graduation courses abroad.
Gender | Any |
Region | Andhra Pradesh |
Class/ Age | Less than 35 |
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Selected candidates who are eligible for the scholarships will be awarded the scholarship amount of Rs 10 Lakhs which will be awarded in two installments as follows.
Rs 10 Lakhs will be sanctioned to the candidate in the above order of the installments that includes their fees and living expenses. Earnings from the Research/Teaching Assistance-ship are also allowed to the candidates if they undertake Research/Training Assistantship.
Applications for Overseas Scholarship for BC Students is to be filled and submitted online only.Candidates who wish to participate in the scholarship program can apply online from 1st August to 30th September by following the link below.
Click here to apply
Candidates have to register online by entering their personal and academic details. The students have to upload the following documents:
Note: Documents uploaded must not be greater than 100 kb.
The Students will be selected by a State Level Screening Committee constituted by Government comprising of the following members. The Bio-data of the candidates who applied online shall be made available to the Committee.
Secretary, BC Welfare |
Chairman |
Secretary, AP State Council of Higher Education |
Member |
Vice-Chancellor JNTU |
Member |
Commissioner (Technical Education) |
Member |
Director, BC Welfare |
Convenor |
In the case of a number of applications are more, the committee shall evolve appropriate guidelines for selection giving prior notice.
Note: 33% of the awards will be reserved for Women Candidates (if an adequate number of eligible women candidates are not available then Male candidates may be selected by this 33%). Bifurcation of BC quota as 7 : 10 : 7 will be done between BC-A,B, D groups. The awards shall be proportionately allocated to the 13 districts based on a number of eligible applications from each district.
Director, B.C.Welfare
6th Floor, DSS Bhavan,
Masab Tank, Hyderabad - 500 028
Phone No: 23378482
Mail : jtdir_bcw@ap.gov.in
Government of Andhra Pradesh