National Overseas Scholarship (NOS) 2023

The Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment, Government of India announced the registrations for the National Overseas Scholarship (NOS) scheme for the year 2023 to commence from 15th February 2023, 

The National Overseas Scholarship scheme provided by the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment, Government of India is to facilitate the low income students who belong to the Scheduled Castes, Landless Agricultural Labourers and Traditional Artisans category, Denotified Nomadic and Semi-Nomadic Tribes to obtain the higher education (Master degree or Ph.D courses) by studying abroad thereby improving their Economic status and also the Social status

The National Overseas Scholarship scheme provides financial assistance to the selected candidates for pursuing Masters level courses and Ph.D. courses abroad, Bachelors Level courses in any discipline are not covered under the National Overseas Scholarship scheme

To be eligible for scholarship, at least 60% marks or equivalent grade in the qualifying examination would be required and the candidate should not be more than 35 years of age

Under the National Overseas Scholarship scheme only those candidates who have submitted their Aadhar card and obtained unconditional offer of admission from one of the foreign Institutions / Universities which are in the list of top 500 ranked institutions / universities from the academic session 2023-24 will be considered for award of scholarship for studying abroad