Education ministry organises workshop for NMMS state nodal officers

NEW DELHI: The ministry of education organised a national workshop for the state nodal officers of the National Means-cum-Merit Scholarship Scheme (NMMS) at Mirza Ghalib Hall, Scope Complex, New Delhi. The workshop was presided over by the department of school education and literacy economic adviser A Srija and attended by officials from DBT, NIC and CSC.

The workshop focused on areas related to the status of registration of fresh and renewal candidates on the NSP, eKYC status of institutes, biometric authentication process of INOs, DNOs etc. and also on the new features to be added to the NSP from 2024-25.

The states and UTs were asked to provide orientation to the parents, teachers and students on the procedure for registering on the NSP to avoid getting fake, defective or rejection cases. The SNOs were also asked to orient parents on registering the correct full name of the child, father and mother in the school records as well as the Aadhaar registry to avoid mismatch at a later stage on NSP. Appreciation certificates were awarded to the seven best performing states and UTs during the event.

Presentation by best performing states

Three best performing states made presentations on the best practices being adopted by them to expedite registration/verification on the NSP portal of eligible candidates within the timeline given on NSP.

Also read Haryana NMMS Scholarship 2023-24 result out at scertharyana.gov.in

A Srija spoke about the importance of timely scholarship payments to children from economically weaker sections and the need for prompt verification of applications by state-level officers on NSP. She also appreciated the good performance by the States and UTs during 2023-24 and requested them to constantly monitor the implementation of the scheme at the district, block and cluster right up to the school level on a regular basis when the NSP portal is open for registration and verification of applications.

Devender Kumar, Director (DBT Mission) emphasised on Aadhaar payment bridge being introduced in the NSP portal from the year 2024-25 onwards. He also talked of the provision of introducing one time registration (OTR) on the NSP.