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12.0 Modalities for payment:

12.1 Payment of the Fellowship/Scholarship amount of the scheme for STs would
be made through the system of Direct Benefit Transfer through the Aadhaar Payment
Bridge into the Aadhaar seeded bank a/c of the beneficiaries from the Ministry of Tribal
Affairs. The selected candidates should obtain the Aadhaar number on priority basis.
Pending Aadhaar seeding of the beneficiary bank a/c, payment would be made into
the bank account through NEFT.

12.2 Payment of scholarships to the selected students will be made on yearly basis
and for fellowship on quarterly basis respectively, through the Direct Benefit Transfer
system by the Ministry of Tribal Affairs through the accredited bank immediately after
selection of the candidates. This will also help Ministry to monitor using the Public

Financial Management System – PFSM (formerly CPSMS).
12.3 The selected candidates would be required to have bank accounts in banks
having Core Banking Solutions.

12.4 In case the students are not having Aadhaar numbers, they are required to
apply for Aadhaar Card, within a month of their registration/admission in the courses

under the Fellowship/Scholarship.
12.5 No Scholarship will be considered if Aadhar number is not mentioned in the
registration form.

13.0 Administrative Cost:

The Project Management cost @2% of the estimated cost is provided in the scheme. This shall
be optimally and judiciously utilized for the purpose of hiring the services of Consultants/MIS
experts, office equipment & furniture, advertisement, awareness campaign, meetings,
development and hosting charges, server charges, bank charges if any, office contingences

(internet/telephone/stationery etc.), and for the purpose of Monitoring & Evaluation.

14.0 Review and Monitoring:
14.1 Expenditure on evaluation/monitoring and administration of the Fellowship/ Scholarship
programme shall be done by MoTA out of 2% of the administrative cost under the Scheme.

14.2 In the case of Fellowship, concerned Universities/Institutions/committee shall assess the

work on the completion of two years ‟tenure of the M.Phil and for the award of Ph.D”. The
research work being done by the candidates shall be monitored by this mechanism. The
concerned Universities/Institutions shall send a list of such fellows who have completed the
studies with fellowships received under the scheme and Ministry will maintain year-wise data
of such beneficiaries.

14.3 In the case of Scholarships, concerned College/Institutions shall send the list of such
students who have successfully completed the course with scholarships received under the
scheme at the end of every academic session and the Ministry will maintain year-wise data of
such beneficiaries.

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