This scheme is open for all ST students who are currently pursuing or wish to opt for higher studies abroad for Masters, PhD & Post-Doctoral research programme. The candidate should fulfill the criteria as per the scheme guidelines for National Overseas Scholarship Scheme of Ministry of Tribal Affairs. The guidelines may be seen at https://overseas.tribal.gov.in/.

There are 20slots/awardsavailable for National Overseas Scholarship foreach year as follows: Scheduled Tribes (ST): 17 Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Groups (PVTG): 03 Total 20 1. Six awards earmarked for female beneficiaries. In case earmarked awards remain un-filled, these awards may be transferred to male beneficiaries. 2. The Scheme doesn’t provide any employment opportunities to the awardee after his/her completion of the course.

The Total family’s income from all sources of the candidate or his/her parents/guardians or spouse should not exceed Rs. 6,00,000/- per annum (excluding such allowances as are not treated as part of total income for the purpose of Income Tax) as certified by the employer. If the candidate is currently employed, a copy of latest tax assessment [ ITR, Form-16] be also enclosed in the application.

Not more than one child of the same parents/guardians will be eligible and to certify this a self-certification will be required from the candidate. An individual can be given the award only once and cannot be considered for the award for second or subsequent time.

The Income certificate should be issued by competent authority of State Government.

A selected candidate is required to join within 2 year of receipt of intimation from this Ministry regarding selection for the award/assurance. On expiry of this specified period of time, the award automatically gets cancelled.

The research scholar is permitted to supplement their prescribed allowances by Undertaking Research/Teaching Assistantship Up to US Dollar 2400 per annum and for research scholar in United Kingdom, Pound Sterling 1,560/-per annum. Where income earned is beyond these prescribed ceilings, the maintenance allowance under the scheme shall be correspondingly reduced by the Indian Mission Abroad. For other countries, US Dollar 2400 per annum or equivalent rates would be applicable.

If a student defaults and does not complete the course, he/she is liable to refund entire scholarship amount received by him/her to the Ministry. The para X of the scheme guidelines “Default under the scheme” may be referred for details.

If students face any problem while filling the application form in Google Chrome, they are advised to use internet explorer. In case any issue/error in internet explorer as well, they are advised to clear browser history /cache and try again.

All documents should be uploaded in pdf file and the Profile Photo should be in .jpg/.jpeg format(Size: - 50 KB-100KB).

Fields provided with black asterisk(*) mark are mandatory fields.

No, you can fill up the online application in many sittings by clicking ‘Save Draft’ button, until you are satisfied that you have entered all desirable fields correctly. The software provides auto save facility to save your application at every stage until you click on ‘Submit’ button finally.

No, you cannot change your mobile number and email id after submitting the applicationform. You need to maintain the same mobile number and email-id throughout the selection process. However, in case your contact detail changes due to some unavoidable reasons, the same may be communicated through online query at https://tribal.nic.in/Grievance/ with the Ministry at the earliest.