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Government of India
Ministry of Human Resource Development
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Scholarshio Division
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l. The Secretary, University Grants Commission, Bahadurshah Zafar Marg, New Delhi-110002
c Chairman, All India Council for-fechnical Education, Dr Nelson Mandela Marg, Vasant
Kunj, New Delhi- 110057
5ir/Ma'am,
Kindly refer to the letter cited under reference on the subject mentioned above. lt is stated
that the University Grants Commission and All India Council for Technical Education are
implementing many students' centric Scholarship/fellowship schemes for the needy students
pursuing higher education, under which the scholarship/fellowship amount is being
/transferred
through Direct Benefit Transfer (DBT) programme of the Government of India.
2. Postal Services Board have mentioned that there is vast network of 1,50,000 post Offices
which are also providing banking and insurance services while they also have a robust technology
platform like Core Banking Solution, Aadhaar enabled payment systems etc. The banking services
may be useful for the beneficiaries of such scheme as the Post Offices have some popular small
saving schemcs Iike (i) Post Office Savings Bank Account (POSB) and Public Provident Fund Scheme
(P P F).
3. Accordingly, the UGC/ AICTE are requested that this information may be disseminated
among the students of the concerned institutions under your administrative control and may be
given wide publicity as an option alongwith other banks to open an account for getting scholarship
through DBT mode.
Encl;- As above.
Yours faithfully,
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(Malathi Narayanan
Deputy Secreta ry (Scholarship
Tel:011- 2517 2932
Copyto:- Ms. K. Sandhya Rani, Member, Postal Services Board Dept. of Posts, Ministry of
Communications, Dak Bhawan, Sansad Marg, New Dc,lhi-110 1 .
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