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National Means-Cum-Merit Scholarship is a Centrally sponsored scholarship scheme. It is implemented by the Department of School Education & Literacy under the Ministry of Human Resource Development with the objective to financially support the meritorious students of economically weaker sections of the society. NMMS encourages disadvantaged students to continue their studies at the secondary level by offering a scholarship amount of INR 12,000 per annum. Every year, this MCM scholarship is made active during the month of November and almost 100,000 scholarships are disbursed among bright students.
There is eligibility criteria for NMMS: Regular students of class 9 with a score of 55% marks in class 8 final exam. Application process is general starts in months of August-November. And whole details and registration can be done through the official government portal NSP. So that dropout rate of students at Class 8 will decrease and encourage them to continue their education at the secondary level.
You can get full information about the NMMS Scholarship at Careers360:
https://school.careers360.com/exams/nmms
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