The Union government is now looking to commission an impact assessment review of three of its flagship undergraduate and postgraduate scholarship schemes for Scheduled Castes, Backward Classes, Denotified and Nomadic Tribes (DNTs), landless agricultural labourers and traditional artisans, two of which are scholarships for studying abroad.
The Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment is looking to study a sample of 2,000 beneficiaries of the Top-Class Scholarships for SCs, DNTs, landless agricultural labourers, and traditional artisans; a sample of 300 National Overseas Scholarship for SCs beneficiaries; and a sample of 100 beneficiaries of the Dr. Ambedkar Scheme of Interest Subsidy on Educational Loan for Overseas Studies for OBCs & EBCs.
The purview of the impact assessment will include measuring the socio-economic status of the beneficiaries; the problems in the design and implementation of the scheme; and to what extent availing of the scheme has changed the social status of the families of the beneficiaries, among others, according to a notification commissioning the study.
