Ministry of Science & Technology Notification | No
Aadhaar No Scholarship
Notification
| Where as, the use of Aadhaar as identity document for delivery of services
No Aadhaar, no scholarship
S&T Ministry notification says students need it to pursue career in science
A key set of scholarships that encourages
middle school students to pursue careers in science, collegians to opt for
basic science research and women to return to labs after a break in career,
will soon require an Aadhar registration.
A March 9 notification by the Union Ministry
of Science and Technology says, “…an individual desirous of availing benefits
under the Schemes is required to furnish proof of possession of Aadhaar or
undergo Aadhaar authentication. The schemes are DISHA Programme, INSPIRE Award,
INSPIRE Scholarship, INSPIRE Internship, INSPIRE Fellowship and INSPIRE
Faculty”.
The last date for application would be
September 30 and, were a scholarship-holder to live in a block or taluka
without an Aadhar enrollment centre, the Science Ministry would be required to
set up a facility, the notification adds.
The INSPIRE (Innovation in Science Pursuit
for Inspired Research) scholarships and DISHA scheme (for women scientists)
have been designed to reach students and women-researchers across all
districts.
As of July 2016, 1.3 million students have
benefited from the three-pronged INSPIRE scheme.
As part of this, 10,000 students get ₹80,000
to pursue a research career; 200,000 children from every school in India are
awarded a ₹5,000 cash prize every year to develop
science models with 60 of them chosen to display it at Rashtrapati Bhavan, and
newly-minted scientists are offered an assured 5-year research contract.
‘Not mandatory’
The Aadhar link to the scholarship comes even
as a Constitution Bench of the Supreme Court, led by former Chief Justice of
India H.L. Dattu, said that the use of the Aadhaar card was purely voluntary
and not mandatory.
While the Supreme Court is yet to rule on
whether the Aadhar scheme is an invasion of a citizen’s right to privacy, it
has only allowed it to be used for subsidies under the public distribution
system and for distributing LPG cylinders.
However, the government now uses it to manage
a variety of schemes, from grants to Bhopal gas leak victims and the Pradhan
Mantri Ujjwala Yojana to Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan. It also decided last month that
children wanting to avail midday meals in schools need to be Aadhar-registered.
PR | The Hindu | 15 March 2017
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