NSIGSE 2025 Incentives to Girls for Secondary Education under Scholarship Scheme

NSIGSE 2025 Incentives to Girls for Secondary Education under Scholarship Scheme. NSIGSE, National Scheme Incentives to Girls for Secondary Education, is a Centrally Sponsored Scheme. MoE will give incentive payments to the beneficiary female students under the NSIGSF scheme. Centrally Sponsored Scheme “Incentives to Girls for Secondary Education.

NSIGSE Scholarship or Incentives to promote the girl child’s enrolment of 14-18 years of age group at the secondary stage, who passes class VIII and subsequently drops out for various socio-economic reasons. The proposed scheme further intends to retain such girl children up to class XII.

Incentives to Girls for Secondary Education Objective: To establish an enabling environment to reduce the dropouts and to promote the enrolment of girl children belonging to SC/ST communities in secondary schools and ensure their retention up to 18 years of age.

NSIGSE 2025 Incentives to Girls for Secondary Education

National Scheme of Incentive to Girls for Secondary Education (NSIGSE) Supply of Data for maturity payments: The Education Department officials have requested that the details of the beneficiary Girls Students under the NSIGSI scheme in the prescribed proforma be furnished to the office on 28-02-2025. The proposals for the academic years 2012-13, 2013-14, 2014-15, 2015-16, and 2016-17 have been sanctioned under the NSIGSE Scheme.

The beneficiary girls of these academic years have not been received /partially received with bank details, as requested earlier. The MoE, Ministry of Education, is unable to transfer the incentive amount into the accounts of beneficiary girls for lack of this information.

Mandal Educational Officers and Headmasters of High Schools are requested to furnish the information about passing out in class X by beneficiary girls along with bank account number and IFSC code for the academic years 2012-13, 2013-14, 2014-15, 2015-16, and 2016-17 in the prescribed proforma in soft copy of this Ministry immediately for making maturity payments to them.

Proforma

Target Group and Components:

1. The Scheme will cover (i) all SC/ST girls who pass class VIII and (ii) girls who pass class VIII examination from Kasturba Gandhi Balika Vidyalaya (irrespective of whether they belong to Scheduled Castes or Tribes) and enroll for class IX in State/UT Government, Government-aided or local body schools in the academic year 2008-09 onwards. Married girls will be excluded from the scheme.

Girl children studying in private unaided schools are proposed to be excluded since most such schools charge high fees, and therefore, parents of such girl students may not require the financial assistance that is being offered under this scheme.

Students enrolled in schools run by the Central Government are also being excluded from the scheme, as these children are either fully provided for already or are those of Central Government employees who can afford their children’s education without further support.

2. The girl child receiving the incentive may be entitled to draw the amount upon attaining 18 years of age. The amount of incentive may be transferred to the Central Government’s account in the unfortunate event of the student’s death before attaining 18 years of age.

3. To be eligible for the scheme’s benefits, the girl should be unmarried and below 16 years of age (as of 31 March) when she joins class IX.

In addition, the scheme is made applicable to girls who pass the class VIII examination from Kasturba Gandhi Balika Vidyalaya, irrespective of whether they belong to Scheduled Castes or Tribes.

4. Each year, 1% of the total incentive amount will be spent on administration, monitoring, and evaluation.

5. There would be no restriction based on income criteria for granting incentives to girls because SC/ST girls and girls passing out from KGBVs and studying in Government, Government-aided, and Local body schools would generally be from disadvantaged sections of society.

Implementation Partners: Incentives to Girls for Secondary Education. State/ UT Governments, Schools controlled and managed by State Governments, Local Bodies, and Aided Private Schools, and Panchayati Raj Institutions will be the implementing partners. The incentive amount may be released to the State/ UT Governments for depositing, and the same is in favour of the eligible girls.

Financial Parameters: Rs. 3000 (Rupees three thousand only) would be deposited under term deposit/ fixed deposit in a public sector bank or a post office in the name of every eligible girl child. The term/ period of the deposit may be counted from the date of deposit to the date on which the girl child attains the age of 18 years. No premature withdrawal will be allowed.

Process of Execution:

Incentives to Girls for Secondary Education

1. Every implementing school may prepare a proposal for releasing the incentive amount after properly examining the eligibility criteria and submitting it to the State Governments/ UTs through the proper channel.

2. State/ UT Governments will send a consolidated proposal to the Department of School Education and Literacy, Ministry of HRD, New Delhi, indicating the following:

• Number of eligible Schools in the State/ UT
• Number of eligible schools proposed to be covered under the scheme
• Several Girl students of SC/ST communities and non-SC/ST girls who pass the class VIII examination from KGBVs are entitled to the scheme’s benefit.
• Age-wise, it reduces the number of Girl Children entitled to the scheme’s benefit.
• The total amount proposed to be released as an incentive.

3. The funds may be released to the State/ UT Governments in two installments yearly. The first installment will be released immediately upon receipt of the proposal. The second installment may be released only after the utilization certificate of the first installment and progress report from the respective State/ UT Government are received.

4. The application will be verified, particularly concerning the birth certificate issued by the School Head based on enrollment record. 5. An account will be opened in the name of the beneficiary in the nearest public sector bank or a post office by the implementing agency (State/ UT Governments or the autonomous organizations, as the case may be) and the amount deposited in a Fixed Term Deposit.

6. The student would be given A passbook or a certificate identifying her as a scheme beneficiary. 7. The beneficiary will have to continue her studies for at least two years in the secondary school after her enrollment in Class IX to avail of the benefits under the scheme. The Principal/ Head of the school will furnish a certificate to this effect.

8. To be eligible to draw the matured amount a pre-condition would be for the beneficiary to pass class X Board examination successfully. 9. On attaining 18 years of age and production of (i) a 10th class pass certificate and (ii) a certificate from the Principal / Head of the school that the girl beneficiary has continued her study for at least two years after enrolment in Class IX the implementing agency will authorize the bank to transfer the matured amount in the interest-bearing account to the savings to account in the name of the girl beneficiary.

Technical Support Group:  A Technical Support Group of consultants may be constituted with the following scope of work:

• To examine the proposal, utilization of funds, and progress reports of the State / UT Governments and Autonomous Organisations
• To collect and analyze the relevant data
• To compile the wise number of beneficiaries
• To assist in effective implementation
• To assist in the monitoring of implementation
• Any other works that may arise in the course of implementation

Time Period: Every implementing school may complete the exercise of identifying eligible girl children and preparing a proposal within one month of the commencement of the academic year.

The State and UT Governments will prepare the consolidated proposal and send it to the Department of School Education & Literacy, Ministry of HRD, New Delhi, within three months of the commencement of the academic year.

Grant-in-Aid Committee: A Grant-in-Aid Committee headed by the Secretary of School Education and Literacy will consider the proposals received from various States/ UT Governments. This Committee may include the Joint Secretary (Secondary Education), JS and FA, Ministry of Human Resource Development, representatives of the Planning Commission, Ministry of Finance, Ministry of Women and Child Development, Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment, and Ministry of Tribal Welfare.

Release of Grant: 1. On approval of the proposal by the Grant–In–Aid Committee, funds may be released in two installments. The first installment may be released immediately after the approval, and the next installment may be released after receipt of the Utilisation Certificate and Progress Report from the States/UT Governments. 2. The first installment may be released based on estimated enrolment figures, and the second installment will be released based on the number of girl children identified as assisted.

Disbursement: Grants to States and UT Governments may be remitted through Inter-Government Adjustment Advice or through the banking channel. This would include the direct transfer of grants to beneficiaries’ accounts through the banking channel.

Monitoring and Evaluation: Incentives to Girls for Secondary Education
1. The Grant-in-Aid Committee may also function as a Monitoring Committee for the scheme. In addition, the state/ UT Governments may be required to submit Progress Reports every quarter.
2. The third-party “process evaluation” should be undertaken on a sample basis by the end of the academic year.

Wide Publicity: Wide publicity would be planned to familiarize the scheme among intended beneficiaries.

Review of the Scheme: After two years, the scheme will be rigorously evaluated by appropriate independent agencies to improve it further in the future. Read MHRD as Ministry of Education.

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