Nai Udaan Scheme For Support For Minority Students Clearing Prelims Conducted By Union Public Service/Staff Selection/State Public Service Commissions : Ministry of Minority Affairs

Organization : Ministry of Minority Affairs
Service Name : Nai Udaan Scheme For Support For Minority Students Clearing Prelims Conducted By Union Public Service/Staff Selection/State Public Service Commissions
Applicable States/UT: All India

Website : https://minorityaffairs.gov.in/

Nai Udaan- Scheme :

Background and Justification of the Scheme:
National Commission on Religious and Linguistic Minorities in its report has highlighted that all communities and groups should have equal share in economic opportunities and employment.

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It envisages proactive measures for those communities that lag behind and become increasingly marginalized. Hence interventions in the form of Government programs need to help these communities, with earmarking of targets on (1) Selfemployment and Wage employment and (2) Recruitment to State and Central Services.

Objectives:
The objective of the Scheme is to provide financial support to the minority candidates clearing prelims conducted by Union Public Service Commission, Staff Selection Commission and State Public Service Commissions to adequately equip them to compete for appointment to Civil Services in the Union and the State Governments and to increase the representation of the minority in the Civil Services by giving direct financial support to candidates clearing Preliminary Examination of Group A and B

(Gazetted and non-Gazetted posts of Union Public Service Commission (UPSC); State Public Service Commissions (SPSCs) and Staff Selection Commission (SSC) etc.

Implementing Agency and Eligibility:
Ministry of Minority Affairs will be the implementing agency and only candidates belonging to notified Minority Communities who clear the Prelim examinations conducted by UPSC; SPSC or SSC etc. and fulfill all other eligibility criteria and conditions will be considered for financial support under the scheme.

Eligibility criteria and conditions of the Scheme will be as follows:
i) The candidate should belong to one of the Minority Communities notified under Section 2 (C ) of National Commission for Minorities Act, 1992 and should have passed the Prelims Examination conducted by UPSC; SPSC or SSC etc.

ii) Total family income of the candidates from all sources should not exceed Rs. 4.5 lakh per annum*.

iii) The financial support can be availed by a candidate only once. The candidate will not be eligible to benefit from any other similar Scheme of the Central or State Governments /UT Administrations. In case the candidate decides to opt for other Schemes; he/she will have to forgo the claim from this Ministry and refund the amount if already availed with 10% interest. He / she needs to give an affidavit to the effect, that he /she is not availing such benefit from any other source.

Note*:
Income from all sources which has been projected as Rs. 4.5 lakh in para 3 (ii) above is subject to change with change in creamy layer exemption/ceiling over the 12th plan period and beyond

Procedure:
Every year Ministry of Minority Affairs will advertise for inviting applications from eligible candidates through News Papers and on its website. Eligible candidates will apply to this Ministry on the pro forma developed for this purpose under the Scheme.