According to the New Education Policy (NEP), the state government has decided to provide free vocational higher education to girls to increase the proportion of girls in vocational education and to provide equal opportunities to girls in education. This decision will definitely provide a great opportunity to those girls who are deprived of higher education due to family financial conditions.
Annual income 8 lakh or less
Degree, diploma and postgraduate education is being provided free of cost to the daughters of parents whose annual income is INR 8 lakh or less. The Higher Education Department has started a helpline number and help desk to solve the problems faced by the students in availing the benefits of this scheme. This helpline can be contacted on 0796134440, 07969134441 and helpdesk.maharashtracet.org.
Helpline open on office days from 9 am to 6 pm
Girls who have taken admission in the academic year 2024-25 and before, girls who are currently studying various educational courses, all such eligible girls will get the benefit of this scheme. Students who have paid admission fees will be refunded. For this, eligible girls need to link their bank account with their Aadhaar number to receive the amount.
If there is any problem while filling the application form of this scheme, then it will have to be informed to the Principal/Nodal Officer of the concerned college, Nodal Officer of the Divisional Joint Director's office or the complaint section on the portal of MahaIT. Information about this scheme is available on MahaDBT portal https://mahadbt.maharashtra.gov.in, website of Directorate of Higher Education https://dhepune.gov.in, website of Directorate of Technical Education https://www.dtemaharashtra.
The accepted scholarship will be credited to the bank account in two phases as per the session. Minister Patil also said that the concerned students will be eligible to get benefits only under any one of the various scholarship schemes of the government.
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