Top States That Have Most Percentage Of Scholarship Applications: NSP Report

Disbursed Amount: State-wise

After scrutinizing all the applications received for the scholarships, a total of 83.95 lakhs applications were verified and that is just 66 per cent. The amount of the scholarships was distributed to all the verified applicants.

Uttar Pradesh has the highest number of verified applications that’s why it allotted the highest amount for scholarships. After Uttar Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala, and Assam are the top states in terms of the amount distributed.

Top 10 States: Disbursed Amount (In Lakh RS.)

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General Category Verified Application

Tamil Nadu holds the sixth position in the highest percentage of verified applications in total, but for general category it has the highest percentage of verified applications.

Top 10 State Verified Application: General Category

Schedule Caste’s Verified Application

With just 10.33 per cent of the total applications being verified, that is 8,235 out of 79,698 applied applications by SC students. Bihar has the lowest per cent of verified applications among all the states for the SC category.

Top 10 State Verified Application: SC Category

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Schedule Tribe’s Verified Application

Tamil Nadu holds the top position in terms of percentage of verified applications for general, SC as well as OBC, but for ST it’s position was in the seventh place among the 10 states that are compared here.

Top 10 State Verified Application: ST Category

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OBC’s Verified Application

Tamil Nadu holds the top rank in terms of OBC population, it also has the highest percentage of OBCs verified application.

Compared to the SC and ST category applications, all the states have a good number of verified applicants in the OBC category.

Top 10 State Verified Application: OBC Category

Among all the top 10 states OBC has the highest number of applications, around 48 lakhs, followed by the general category with around 44 lakhs applications. SC and ST have the lowest number of applied applications, which is 8.07 lakh and 1.6 lakh respectively.