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Presentation to the Hon’ble Members of Jury, eMaharashtra 2013

'Saksham'. eScholarship, Uttar Pradesh. Social Empowerment through Education. Government of Uttar Pradesh & National Informatics Centre, UP. Presentation to the Hon’ble Members of Jury, eMaharashtra 2013. S.B.Singh, Dy. Director General, NIC-UP. Overview. Problems Faced.

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Presentation to the Hon’ble Members of Jury, eMaharashtra 2013

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  1. 'Saksham' eScholarship, Uttar Pradesh Social Empowerment through Education Government of Uttar Pradesh & National Informatics Centre, UP Presentation to the Hon’ble Members of Jury, eMaharashtra 2013 S.B.Singh, Dy. Director General, NIC-UP

  2. Overview

  3. Problems Faced

  4. Innovation – ICT Led Initiative

  5. Benefits – Impact on Stakeholders

  6. Impact on Children e-Scholarship - a comprehensive tool towards Education Reforms in the state

  7. Cost & Revenue Model • Scholarship is a Government funded project • A total sum exceeding 2021 crore disbursed electronically through the system every year • One time cost of 3.96 cr was incurred in Data Entry of all the beneficiaries before the launch of Project in 2007-08. • The recurring cost of 1 cr annual is for updation of the available data. All other expenses are met from the departmental budget. • NIC developed the portal free-of-cost and all technical support is provided by NIC at the State Centre and Districts. The State Government was able to save a lot of revenue by deleting duplicate and bogus beneficiaries. The amount was utilised to increase the number of beneficiaries as scholarship is a budgetted activty

  8. Sustainability & Scalability

  9. Other Relevant Information • eScholarship, UP is the first of its kind project to have used IT based initiative for electronic transfer of scholarship directly to bank a/c of beneficiary • It manages the scholarship system right from the primary stage till the student attains professional qualifications and becomes an asset for the society and the country • Nearly 3 lakhs persons working day & night to accomplish the task in a record time of three months • The project also facilitates abut 20 lakh students belonging to the BPL families to pursue higher education and professional courses such as B.Tech, M.Tech, MBBS, MBA every year • Scholarship programme ensures that money is not a constraint for students aspiring for higher studies & professional courses. Scholarship amount of Rs.35290 lakh and Fee Amount of Rs.118477 Lakh reimbursed in 2011-12 to students.

  10. SAKSHAM is a Journey …not an end Thank you S.B. Singh Deputy Director General & State Informatics Officer National Informatics Centre, U.P. State Unit, Lucknow sio-up@nic.in 10 http://scholarship.up.nic.in

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