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Board of Secondary Education Odisha National Rural Talent Scholarship – NRTS Examination – 2020

Board of Secondary Education Odisha National Rural Talent Scholarship – NRTS Examination – 2020

About Board of Secondary Education Odisha NATIONAL RURAL TALENT SCHOLARSHIP -NRTS EXAMINATION – 2020

1. A student of any school recognised by Govt. of Odisha/ which has received No Objection Certificate from Govt. of Odisha having passed Class-Vlll with 60% marks in the final examination and continuing in Class-lX is eligible to appear at the NRTS Examination. Students of Schools not following syllabus of Board of Secondary Education, Odisha are not eligible for this scholarship. ln case of SC & ST students the.marks secured in Final Examination shall be relaxed by 10% i.e. a student having passed Class -Vlll with 50% marks in the Final Examination shall also be eligible.

2. There is no limitation in number of students to sit for the examination. A school can register any number of candidates provided they are eligible to appear.

3. Application for NRTS Examination, 2o2a wiil be received by oNLINE mode only through the link (website) www.bseodisha.ac.in

4. The ONLINE application will be made live from 05t11t2020 10.00 am till 19.11.2020 midnight.

5. The Head of the lnstitution who shall 19.11.2020 can submit the URN No. of payment on the next date i.e 20.11.2020 (midnight)

6. The Head of the lnstitutions will be the log in authorities for registration of candidate. They will log in with their school code as their User lD and Password which they last used.

7. Suitable students shall be selected for the scholarship through a written examination to be conducted by the Board of Secondary Education, Odisha

8. The examination will be conducted in subjects like MlL , Mathematics, General Science & Social Science. The questions will be set from the syllabus of Class-VIII. It will be a composite paper consisting of four papers/ sections, i.e. one section for each subject. Each section will carry full mark of 25 and the to total mark will be 100.

9. The questions will be of multiple choice type and the answers will given in the OMR Answer sheet by darkening the right answer out”of four options.

AWARD OF SCHOLARSHIP

1. The B.S.E., Odisha will declare the results of the scholarship examination and handover the merit list to the concerned District Education Officers.

2. The District Education Officer will prepare the list of selected students for each district on the basis of result and merit list provided by the B.S.E., Odisha, after verification of correctness of the data in the merit list.

3. The District Education Officer will issue the award memo in favour of selected students. In no case the total number of awardees in a Block (Rural & Urban taken together) shall exceeds 10

RATE OF SCHOLARSHIPS

The selected students will get Rs.250/–per month for 24 months till he/ she continues his/ her studies in the Secondary level i.e. in Class-lX and X with satisfactory performance.

CASTE & INCOME DECLARATION

1. The students will produce the declaration from the parents regarding the caste as SC/ ST/ SEBC

2. Only SEBC category students will have to produce income declaration from the parents that their annual income does not exceed Rs.1.5 lakh.

3. The category of the students shall be mentioned in the Descriptive Roll of the candidates

DISBURSEMENT OF AWARD MONEY

The scholarship money shall be disbursed to students through electronic transfer to their Bank Accounts. Soon after the publication of result and issue of award memo the awardees will be informed to open joint bank account (student and one of the parents) and submit the account details to the District Educational Officer who will transfer the award money to the account of the student. No other mode of payment is allowed.