National Scholarship Portal (NSP) 2021 is a portal launched by Ministry of Electroni
cs and Information Technology, Government of India. This portal provides various
scholarships to SC/ ST/ OBC/ Minority students. Applicants can apply/ registration
online for the schemes listed further. Appliers can read the further session of this
page to collect the information like eligibility criteria, registration procedure, the
procedure to submit a renewal application, documents required and other
relevant information.
Central schemes
  • Ministry of Minority Affairs
    • Pre Matric Scholarships Scheme for Minorities
    • Post Matric Scholarships Scheme for Minorities
    • Merit Cum Means Scholarship For Professional and Technical Courses CS
  • Department of Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities 
    • Pre-matric Scholarship for Students with Disabilities
    • Post-matric Scholarship for Students with Disabilities
    • Scholarships for Top Class Education for students with disabilities.
  • Ministry of Social Justice & Empowerment
    • Top Class Education Scheme for SC Students
  • Ministry of Labour & Employment
    • Financial Assistance for Education of the Wards of Beedi/Cine/IOMC/LSDM Workers – Post-Matric
    • Financial Assistance for Education of the Wards of Beedi/Cine/IOMC/LSDM Workers – Pre-Matric
    • Aam Aadmi Bima Yojna Scholarship for Andhra Pradesh
  • Ministry of Tribal Affairs
    • National Fellowship and Scholarship for Higher Education of ST Students – Scholarship (Formally Top Class Education for Schedule Tribe Students) – only for scholarships
  • Department of School Education & Literacy
    • National Scheme of Incentive to Girls for Secondary Education(NSIGSE)
    • National Means Cum Merit Scholarship
  • Department of Higher Education
    • CENTRAL SECTOR SCHEME OF SCHOLARSHIPS FOR COLLEGE AND UNIVERSITY STUDENTS
  • WARB, Ministry of Home Affairs
    • Prime Minister’s Scholarship Scheme For Central Armed Police Forces And Assam Rifles
    • PRIME MINISTER’S SCHOLARSHIP SCHEME FOR WARDS OF STATES/UTs POLICE PERSONNEL MARTYRED DURING TERROR/NAXAL ATTACKS
  • RPF/RPSF, Ministry of Railway
    • Prime Minister’s Scholarship Scheme For RPF/RPSF

Procedure to Check Eligibility at NSP 2.0
















Any applicants who want to apply for scholarship under NSP have to check there eligibility by follow few easy steps:

  • To check eligibility you need to go to the National Scholarship Website
  • From home page of the website you need to go “services” option
  • Click “scheme eligibility” from drop-down options
  • Enter the details such as Domicile State/UT, Course Level, Religion, Caste/Community Category, Gender, Parent Annual Income, Whether Disabled and captcha code
  • Click “check eligibility” option

Required Documents

  • Aadhar Card
  • Bank account Passbook.
  • Caste Certificate if you belong to a special category.
  • Income certificate as per your scholarship type.
  • Mobile Number
  • Passport Size Photograph
  • Previous Year Education Qualification certificate.
  • Self-declaration certificate.

Objective of NSP Scholarship

The main objective of NSP Scholarship 2021 is

  • To ensure the distribution of the scholarships will be done timely to the students.
  • Now To make an application procedure easier for the students
  • To make a common platform for Central and State Governments scholarship plans
  • For no duplication in the processing and creating a learner’s database.

Benefits of NSP 2.0

  • Information about all the scholarship in one portal
  • Easy application procedure
  • Single integrated application
  • Suggest for the students about the best scholarship scheme to apply
  • No double applications
  • Transparent records.
  • Up to date data available
  • Help as a decision support system (DSS) for Ministries and departments 

Registration : Click Here

Procedure to Search Institute/School/ITI

  • To check you need to go to the National Scholarship
  • From the home page of the website you need to click “Search for Institute/ School/ ITI”
  • Enter the details Institution State, Institution District, Institute /College/ITI and School/College/ITI Name(Optional) 
  • Now click “Get  Institution list” option and information will appear

Procedure to search district wise nodal officer

  • Go to the National Scholarship
  • From the home page of the website you need to click “services”
  • Click “Search Nodal Officer Detail” option
  • Select ministry, state, district and scheme
  • Enter captcha code appears in the image
  • Click “submit” option and information will appear on the screen

Check List of Ministry Coordinators

  • Go to the official website of the national scholarship portal
  • A Home page will be open in front of you
  • On the homepage click on the services link
  • From the services link select check the list of ministry coordinators
  • A new window will be open in front of you with the list of all we ministry officers along with their contact details

Know Your AISHE Code

To know your AISHE Code applicants have to follow few easy steps as mentioned further:-

  • Go to the National Scholarship Portal
  • From the home page of the website you need to click “services”
  • Click “know your AISHE Code” from the drop-down list
  • Select your institution type, state, district, university type and name
  • Click submit option and list of colleges with AISHE code appears

Download NSP Mobile Application

  • Go to the National Scholarship Portal
  • Click on “Get it on Google play” option available in the top right side of the page
  • Or open the Google Play store in your android mobile
  • Go to the search bar and type national scholarship
  • Click install option and let the application installed on your phone.

Know Your Payment-NSP

  • To know your payment information you have to go to the official website
  • From home page click “know your payment” option
  • Now enter the asked details such as
    • Bank
    • Account no
    • Confirm account number
    • Verification code
  • Click search option and information will display

Track NSP Payment Status Online

  • To track NSP payment information you have to go to the official website
  • From home page click “Track NSP payments” option
  • Now enter the asked details such as
    • Bank
    • Account no or NSP application ID
    • Verification code
  • Click search option and information will display

Helpline Number

For any query you can contact on helpline number 0120 – 6619540 and email @ helpdesk.nsp.gov.in.