Department of Science and Technology under the Ministry of Science and Technology has invited applications for the Scholarship for Higher Education (SHE), for the years 2007, 2008 and 2009.
SHE is a component of the `Innovation in Science Pursuit for Inspired Research (INSPIRE)? being implemented by the Department. The INSPIRE Programme includes three components namely Scheme for Early Attraction of Talents for Science (SEATS), Scholarships for Higher Education (SHE) and Assured Opportunity for Research Careers (AORC).
SHE scheme focuses on the attraction of talent to study Natural/Basic Sciences at the Bachelor and Master?s level. SHE is currently limited to support for educational programmes at B.Sc., B.Sc. (Hons), M.Sc. and Integrated Master?s level course in Sciences leading to MSc in any branch of Natural and Basic Sciences namely Mathematics, Statistics, Physics, Chemistry, Earth Sciences and Life Sciences. A total of 10,000 scholarships are available annually under SHE starting April 2008 and is limited only to those studying courses in Natural/Basic Sciences (B.Sc., B.Sc. (Hons), Integrated M.Sc.) in a recognized institution in India.
Application: Candidates eligible for the scholarship based on Board examination based eligibility or Competitive examination based eligibility, may apply in the prescribed format available at www. inspire-dst.gov.in and http://www.nistads.res.in/inspire along with attested copy of (i) Mark sheets of Class X and Class XII (ii) Certificate from Principal of the College/ Director or Registrar of the Institute or University where the applicant is presently enrolled.
pplications can be submitted online at www. inspire-dst.gov.in in which case a hard copy of the application has to be submitted along with attested copies of the necessary documents.