The Central Board of Secondary Education has invited applications from 2011 batch of X & XII classes for the award of the following Scholarship Schemes:

1. CBSE Merit Scholarship Scheme for Single Girl Child for + 2 studies.
2. Central Sector Scheme of Scholarship for College and University Students 2011.

The details and eligibility conditions alongwith the application form is available on the Board's website www.cbse.nic.in.publicportal.scholarship or
(http://www.cbse.nic.in/Scholarship/Webpages/Home%20Page%20Scholarship.html)
The last date for receipt of application is 31st October, 2011.

Renewals

The scholars of all the schemes, who have been granted scholarships by the Board in the previous years, may also apply for renewal of their scholarships by 31st December 2011.

Eligibility Criteria

The applicant should fulfill all the criteria given below for consideration and award of scholarship:-
(i)  should be an Indian national.
(ii) should be the girl child and only child of her parents.
(iii) should be a student of CBSE in Class X (i.e. passed class X from a CBSE affiliated school) and having 6.2 or more CGPA in Class X Examinations 2011 conducted by the Board and pursuing Class XI & XII from CBSE affiliated Schools (As per statement of subject-wise performance issued by the Board).     
(iv) the tuition fees for Class X should not be more than Rs. 1,500/- per month during the Academic year. In the next 2 years the total enhancement of tuition fee shall not be more than 10% of the tuition fee.

Value of scholarship  Rs. 500/- per month

Duration                     2 years only (for Class XI & XII)

All the application must be signed by the applicant. Unsigned applications or signed by the parents will be rejected.

Attestation

All the applications must be certified along with signature/ stamp of the Principal of the present school where the student is studying. In case applications are not attested the same will be rejected.

Documents to be sent with the APPLICATION

1. An attested copy of Mark sheet of Class X 2011 issued by CBSE.
2. An affidavit from the parent that the candidate is the only child of her parents on a non-judicial stamp paper of Rs. 10/- duly sworn in before First class Judicial Magistrate/ SDM/Executive Magistrate should be submitted along with the application. Photocopy of affidavit will not be accepted.

Address to which the Duly filled up Application Form should be sent.

The duly filled in proforma be sent in an envelope superscribing "APPLICATION FOR MERIT SCHOLARSHIP FOR SGC X 2011 (F-1)" should be sent to the "SECTION OFFICER (SCHOLARSHIP) CBSE, SHIKSHA KENDRA, 2, COMMUNITY CENTRE, PREET VIHAR, DELHI–110 092".
 
Scholarship will be sent to the correspondence address of applicant mentioned in application form. List of eligible applicant who is being sent scholarship will be displayed / updated on website regularly.