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Prime Minister’s Scholarship Scheme
June 6 , 2019
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- The Union Cabinet approved a major change in the ‘Prime Minister’s Scholarship Scheme’ under the National Defence Fund.
- The Cabinet has increased the rates of scholarship from Rs 2,000 per month to Rs 2,500 per month for boys and Rs 2,250 per month to Rs 3,000 per month for girls.
- The ambit of the Scholarship Scheme is extended to the wards of State Police officials who are/were martyred during terror/naxal attacks.
- The quota of new scholarships for wards of state police officials will be 500 in a year.
- The Ministry of Home Affairs will be the nodal Ministry in this regard.
National Defence Fund (NDF)
- The National Defence Fund (NDF) was set up in 1962.
- It aims to take charge of the voluntary donations in cash and kind received for promotion of the national defence effort, and to decide on their utilisation.
- Currently the fund is being used for the welfare of the members of the Armed Forces, Para Military forces and Railway Protection Force, and their dependents.
- The fund is administered by an Executive Committee with the Prime Minister as the Chairperson and the Defence, Finance and Home Ministers as Members.
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