G.O Ms No. 70 Dated 8.8.2002 of Adi Dravidar and Tribal Welfare Dept, Tamil Nadu

F FM  J -M-F FM/J /M   M J- K F F     M J-F MF --OJA.

F FM  J  (F3) 

1. (G) 44, F FM ,  22.3.95
2. (G)  37 F FM  J ,  6.5.98
3. (G) 107, F FM  J ,  14.9.98
4. (G)  112, F FM  J ,  22.9.98

5. , F FM    1/20211/98, , 22.1.2001 , 12.7.2001, 1.8.2001  25.9.2001
6. , F FM    4/56731/96,  27.2.2001

   J   F  F FM/J  GFM   .10.00  O    Cx M     J.

2)    J  Cx M  F   C  GJ , F FM   FF     J M  ,  FFM/J       F G    C       K F   C  AJ .10.50  c  FF 12 M  MAF .7.50   .3.00    h   A  JL FF 1998-99    J.

3)    J      ,     /J    F, F FM   A   F  MK     OJ.

4)    J  ,  , C    J C  J P PM, N  KJ J       K F .   .4.50  M  10  i   .3.00  i F  J.

5) , F FM    M F FM/J   K FF W   M J  J M  GJ F P   O  M J M MF   (G)  112, F FM  J ,  22.9.98 F OJ J.

6)    MJ   F FM/J  F G  C  H O   Cx M FF .10.50  d  JL .1,86,500/-    A. J     H   GJ KM FF J .10.50 FL .1.50  F   , F FM    J.

7)  F 5  6       H JA.

)  K FO F FM/J    M F C G C  (G) 44, F FM  J ,  22.3.95   K    M J    Cx M F   (G)  112, F FM  J   22.9.98    , , C    J C  J     J     K F A M F P     M   JA.

)  Cx M FF AJ    10.50 F,   A FH
 .

 W   A   .

2225 Welfare of Scheduled Caste, Scheduled Tribe and Other Backward Classes-01 Welfare of Scheduled Castes-912 Deduct-Recoveries of unspent balance-AA Deduct Recoveries of unspent balance-77 Deduct-Recoveries-3 Other recoveries

    M P  H  F FM    A.

) F  FF  .30.00  W  J  H  MFO J   O  M    , F FM   C   .

) FF MK MF H .

8) FF F FM  J     M   C MFO    35 , //M    .12,000/- ( .1.44 )   .

9) O  M  F FM/J  M M J F FM     O  .

10) F P MK M F  C  LJ F FM   OF .  H  MFO F.  .

11. FF M W  H W   .

 2225-F FM J  H H -01 F FM -277 M-  F E-II G F - KH F FM/J   M O  M -12. M , JC M  (... 2225 01 27 KH 1200)

12)  F 7 () O M 2002-2003  FF/F FF Fd W .  W  FA F FM  J    M  FA.  2002-2003  FF/F FF Fd P C GF  H M   H F FM  J    A.

13)  GFJ ...55449//2002,  7.8.2002  OJA.   GF   360.

F FM  , -5
J  ,-5
 M ,-5
PJ M , -25
K M , -6
 , -5
  C , -7
 M , -35
   F
G  , -18/9/35/6
   (A) -5
   (), -1

 ,  ,  cF  F , vFK , L-110 001
  C
  F FM  J  
GF/M / /  / e//H I H  CJ /GF(...2),/9
K  M, -9
F FM  K  M, -9
F FM  J  K  M, -9
F FM  J  (1) , -9
 /FK

REGULATIONS GOVERNINGS SCHEME OF TAMIL NADU GOVERNMENT OVERSEAS SCHOLARSHIP FOR SC/ST CANDIDATES WITH EFFECT FROM 2002-2003

The scheme provides financial assistance to finally selected students for pursuing higher studies abroad in specified fields of Master Level courses Ph.D and Post-Doctoral research programmes in the field of Engineering Technology, Science.

If for any specific year successful candidates are not available to the extent prescribed for each of the above listed categories the awards for that year will become open for candidates belonging to other categories mentioned above as per merit grades attained by such candidates. Bachelor Level courses in any discipline are not covered under the Scheme. Following courses have been approved for undertaking studies under the scheme (No award can be granted to any candidate to under take studies in subjects other than those specified below.

1.	Automation Robotics including Artificial Intelligence, Mechatronics and Manufacturing Technology
2.	Laser Technology
3.	Paper Technology
4.	Naval Architecture/Offshore structures
5.	Information Technology including computer Engineering Software, Software Qualify Assurance, Networking/Connectivity Engineering Communication, System under Hazardous or Post-disaster conditions Multi-media Communications
6	Low Temperature Thermal Dynamics
7	Optometry
8	Art Restoration Technology
9	Ceramic & Glass Technology
10	Dock and Harbour Engineering
11	Industrial Safety
12	Bio-Technology/Genetic Engineering
13	Petroleum Technology
14	Aircraft/Space Engineering
15	Imaging System Technology
16	Graphic Engineering
17	Composite Materials Engineering including Decentralised Power Distribution (for solar heat) System, Energy Storage Engineering, Energy Conservation, Energy Efficient Habitat Engineering
18	Satellite/Remote sensing
19	Packaging Engineering/Technology
20	Nuclear Engineering
21	Agriculture
22	Medical
23	Law

a) For Post Doctoral: 1^st Class or 60% marks or equivalent grade in relevant Masters Degree (2^nd Class with 50% for Scheduled Tribes) Ph.D and 5 years Research/Teaching/Professional experience in the concerned field

b) For Ph.D: 1^st class or 60% marks or equivalent grade in relevant Masters Degree (2^nd class with 50% for Scheduled Tribes) and 2 years Teaching/Research/Professional experience/M.Phil degree in the concerned filed.

c) For Masters degree:- 1^st Class or 60% marks or equivalent grade in relevant Bachelors degree (2^nd class with 50% marks for Scheduled Tribes) and 2 years work experience in the concerned field

Total income from all sources of the employed candidate or his/her parents/guardians should not exceed Rs.12000/- per month (excluding such allowances as are not treated as part of total income for the purpose of income-tax) as certified by the employer. A copy of latest tax-assessment be also enclosed with application

Not more than one child of the same parents/guardians will be eligible and to this effect a self-certification will be required from the candidate. The awardee can not be considered for the award for second or subsequent times as the individual can be awarded for once.

I. Candidates who are in employment must forward their applications through their employer along with a NOC by the employer to the Commissioner, Adi Dravidar Welfare so as to reach the Commissioner, Adi Dravidar Welfare on or before the last date of receipt of applications as specified in the advertisement of the Scheme.

II. The finally selected candidates are required to obtain admission and join an accredited university/institution abroad within three years from the date of communication of selection. On expiry of this specified period of time the award will automatically get cancelled and come to an end. No request for extension of time for availing the award is permissible under the scheme. The candidates are required to seek admission and join accredited Universities/Institutions only.

III. The selected candidate is required to execute a bond on a non-judicial stamp paper before a notary-public with two sureties who will execute surety bonds separately for the actual amount to be spent by Government of Tamil Nadu on the candidate, Each of the surety bonds shall specify and cover for the estimated expenditure in Indian Rupees that would be incurred as travel expenses, tuition fees, maintenance and contingency allowances, stipends scholarship and other miscellaneous expenses, on the awardees during the entire period of study abroad and shall become payable by the sureties jointly or/and severally in case the awardees is declared a defaulter by the Government under the provisions of the Scheme. The language of the bond as decided by the Government of Tamil Nadu will be acceptable to the candidate.

IV. The selected candidate will also be required to execute a bond with this Government and the Indian Mission abroad, as per prevailing laws of the foreign country, that the extension of stay abroad beyond completion of the course of duration of the scholarship under the Scheme, whichever is earlier will not be permissible. The candidates/awardees shall not seek any extension of stay abroad beyond the duration for which the scholarship is awarded. The language of the bond as decided by Government of Tamil Nadu will be acceptable to candidate.

V. The candidate shall not change the course of study or research for which scholarship has been sanctioned.

VI. The candidate will have to execute another bond with this Government and the Indian Mission abroad, that he/she will sign a Record Release Consent Form in the manner prescribed by Government of Tamil Nadu and it will be acceptable to the candidate.

VII. The selected candidates can though pursue their respective studies in an accredited university/ institution in a country of their choice with which India has diplomatic relations, but this will be subject to prior written approval of the Government of Tamil Nadu, whose decision will be final and not challengeable The candidates are required to make their own efforts in seeking admission in accredited Universities/institutions in programmes/fields specified in the Scheme.

VIII. Married candidates in principle, are not allowed to take their spouse and children with them or join them subsequently during the period of study. Nevertheless, under emergency conditions like serious health grounds of the awardees, the condition may be relaxed by this State Government for which specific and preferably prior permission of the Government is required.

IX. All administrative matters like study-leave, salary etc. will be directly sorted out by the candidate with his/her employer and as per rules of the serving organization. This Ministry will not take any responsibility or render assistance in this regard.

X. In case of emergencies at home where the awardees is forced to return to India for sometime to attend to the adverse situation, the awardees is permitted to return to India for the specific purpose, after having informed the Indian Missions and the educational institution where one is pursuing studies about it. The awardees will, however, be required to bear to & fro journey expenses for the visit and shall also not be entitled to receive maintenance allowance under the scheme, from the Indian Mission, for the period of being away from the place of his/her educational institution abroad and the maintenance allowance shall be resumed by the Indian mission only from the date of his/her resuming same course at the same institution. The awardees after having dealt with the emergencies at home, is required to return to the place of his/her educational institution, as early as possible, failing, which he/she shall be liable to be declared a defaulter and the recovery proceeding will be initiated against him/her.

XI. All candidates after having availed of the award under the Scheme are required to return to India and under no circumstances they will be issued No Objection to Return to India Certificate by any concerned authority in Government of Tamil Nadu.

XII. The awardee on return to India has to remain in India for at least five years and is also required to serve the State Government. If he/she continues to be in Government service after return to India, as one was before going abroad with award under the Scheme.

XIII. It will be for the candidate to obtain the appropriate visa for a country wherein one intends to study further under award from the scheme and the Visa issuing authorities may kindly see that only such type of visa be issued which only permits the candidate to pursue specified course abroad and thereafter the candidate returns to India. Government of Tamil Nadu will render no assistance to a candidate for obtaining Visa.

XIV. Selected candidates are required to furnish all such documents and enter into such agreements before their departure as shall be decided by the Government of Tamil Nadu from time to time.

XV. In case the awardee has received overpayment through Indian Mission abroad or any other Government agency he/she is liable to refund the same to Government of Tamil Nadu and his/her employer (if any) is authorized to recover the excess amount from his/her dues on request from Government of Tamil Nadu and refund the same to Government of Tamil Nadu.

XVI. The decisions of Government of Tamil Nadu will be final in all such issues as may come up during course of time.

XVII. The Indian Mission abroad will obtain six monthly progress reports from the University/Institution where the awardee is pursuing his/her studies for which the award was given under the scheme. The Missions will inform to the Government such serious adverse developments in case of the awardee which requires decision towards further continuation of the award or otherwise. The Mission will however, keep on advising such awardees to put serious efforts in improving their achievements who are not seen to be upto the mark as reflected in their said six monthly progress reports and they may also be reminded that financial assistance under the Scheme is not extendable beyond the stipulated period under the Scheme.

XVIII. There may arise situations when an awardee pursuing Ph.D or Post Doctoral research in a University/Institution where one is initially registered with, find a serious situation where his/her guide has left and there are no immediate replacements thereof or the university/Institutions has discontinued the research support facilities in the area where the awardee was pursuing Ph.D./Post Doctoral research. the Indian Missions abroad in such cases are authorized to allow the awardee to change the University/Institutions, after the Missions are satisfied about such a need subject, however, to the condition that the credits earned by the awardee in the initial university/institution are accepted for transfer by the second university/Institutions and that the total period of award will remain unchanged even on such a transfer/change, which will be permitted only once during the award.

XIX. The prospective awardee is selected by the Selection Committee constituted by this Government, for a particular subject from within the specified subjects for pursuing Masters Programme Ph.D or Post Doctoral and candidate is given three years time from the date of communication about his/her selection for the award. The candidate before leaving for abroad to pursue the course for which one was selected under the scheme, is reaquired to give a declaration to this Ministry that he/she has not already acquired the qualification in the meanwhile or has not submitted the final theis leading to active possibility of acquiring the qualification, from the Indian University. This Ministry on receiving such a declaration from the candidate will appropriately decide as to whether candidate can be awarded under the Scheme or otherwise and departure of the candidate for abroad will depend on the decision.

XX. n case the awardee is evaluated by his/her university/educational institution for awarding the degree which is of a lower rating than the one for which the awardees had pursued studies (like award of M.Phil instead of PhD) the Ministry may go into the circumstances of such a eventuality and decide that whether this was because of academic incompetence of the awardees or there were other adverse circumstances for the awardees like frequent change of course supervisors, no supervisor for some period, mental trauma for the awardees if so supported by medical evidence. After this alone, the Government may decide as to whether the awardee to declare to defaulter or not. The State Government in such cases will provided the return air passage to India by shortest route and economy class and in case the awardees has been declared defaulter, he/she will be liable for recoveries of entire amount with stipulated interest thereon.

XXI. When the awardees overstays abroad for more than one month after successful completion of the course and then of his/her own returns to India at own cost he/she will not be entitled to refund of return passage booked by him/her. In normal circumstances, immediately after successful completion of the course the Indian Missions abroad books the return journey, for the awardees as provided in the Scheme, and thus the overstaying awardees without any specific purpose for more than a month after the course is over, will forfeit his/her claims of return passage at Government expense through Indian Missions abroad.

XXII. This Ministry if necessary, in consultation with other Departments/ Agencies, will take decision on such issues concerning awardees arising out of such situation and circumstances which are of unforeseeable nature and thus not covered under this written scheme and the decisions of the Government will be final and binding on the awardees.

The annual maintenance allowance of US Dollars 7,700/- has been prescribed for all levels of courses covered under the Scheme. The annual maintenance allowance for candidates in United Kingdom will be Pound Sterling 5,000/- for all levels of courses covered under the Scheme.

The awardees are permitted to supplement their prescribed allowances by undertaking research/Teaching Assistantship up to US Dollars 2,400/- per annum and for awardees in United Kingdom, Pound Sterling 1560/- per annum and beyond these prescribed ceilings their maintenance allowance under the scheme will be correspondingly reduced by the Indian Missions abroad.

Contingency allowance for books/essential apparatus/study tour/typing and binding of thesis etc. will be U.S.D.500/- per annum and for candidates in United Kingdom, it will be Pound Sterling325/- per annum.

Equipment Allowances of Rs.1,100/- and incidental journey expenses up to U.S.D.15/- or its equivalent in Indian Rupees are permissible.

Air passage from India to the nearest place to the educational institution and back to India, by economy class and shortest route in arrangements with the national carrier, will be provided.

Second or Coach class railway fare from the port of disembarkation to the place of study and back in case of far flung places not connected by rail, bus fare(s) from the place of residence to the nearest railway station actual charge of acrossing by ferry, airfare to the nearest rail-cum-air station and/or II class railway fare by the shortest route to the port of embarkation and back will be permissible.

X. For attending interviews by the candidates at the place decided by the Government of Tamil Nadu, the second class fare/ordinary class bus fare from the city of their place of residence to the city in which the interviews for selection have been decided by the Government of Tamil Nadu will be permissible.

The mode of disbursement of above listed financial assistance will be decided by Government of Tamil Nadu and Indian Missions abroad.

The prescribed financial assistance is provided up to completion of the course/research or the following period, whichever is earlier:-

The extension of stay beyond prescribed period for levels of courses as mentioned above may be considered without financial assistance of any kind except the air passage to return to India, if and only if recommendation of the competent concerned authority in the educational institution/university as well as the Indian Mission abroad is received certifying that such an overstay for a specified period is absolutely essential for facilitating the candidate to complete the course. The final decision in this regard will, however, rest with the Government of Tamil Nadu alone.

The jurisdiction of the Scheme is up to providing prescribed financial support to the selected candidates for pursuing higher education in the specified subjects. The Scheme does not cover employment aspects of the awardees and also does not provide for any kind of assistance to the awardee in seeking employment anywhere, after his/her having availed of the award.

In case a candidate pursuing studies abroad violates any of the terms and conditions of the bonds executed by him/her and that the educational institution/university intimates to this Government through the Indian Mission abroad about his/her adverse reports on studies and/or conduct and/or that the candidate leaves for any other country or absconds or joins any other university or course / programme or/and returns to India in case of emergency without intimating the Indian Mission abroad, he/she will be declared defaulter and will become liable for refund of entire amount spent on him/her along with the interest which will be 12% per annum w.e.f 2002-2003 onwards and in case an awardees fails to repay the amount within six months from the date on which a demand for such refund is made, penal interest at the rate which is 2.5% higher than the above normal rate of interest on the outstanding amount would be charged. If the awardees fails to repay such amount along with interest thereon in the manner decided by Government of India, his/her sureties who have executed bonds, will be liable to pay the entire amount failing which the District Collector of the concerned district will realize the amount as arrears of land revenue.

The scheme will be advertised in the newspapers giving summarized information about the Scheme. The candidates shall after assessing their eligibility and suitability, as per conditions of the Scheme, apply to the Commissioner, Adi Dravidar Welfare, Chennai-5 (employed candidates through proper channel), in the prescribed application form which will form a part of the advertisement. The last date of receiving applications will also be mentioned in the advertisement. Thereafter, all applications received up to the last date of receiving applications, as notified in advertisement will be put before the Screening Committee. The candidates short listed by the Screening Committee will be required to present themselves for personal interview before the Selection Committee. The merit list prepared on the basis of assessment of Individual candidate, by the Selection Committee will finally and decisively complete the selection procedure to decide the merit. In case of tie-up of two or more candidates the one who is eldest in age (as per date of birth) will be placed above the others as per respective dates of birth as recorded in Secondary School Certificate. The constitution of Screening and Selection Committee will be decided by Commissioner Adi Dravidar Welfare.

If any candidate has furnished any false information/document and is established as false he/she will be debarred from the award and if he/she has availed of it or is availing, an action will be initiated for recovery of the amount spent with 15% compound interest thereon. Such candidate will also be black listed for future and the employed candidate will also have to face departmental action for such act for which the Government of Tamil Nadu will take up the matter with the respective employers. The respective employers are, therefore also requested to carefully go through contents of application of their employees before forwarding the same to this Government. The employers are also free to insist on candidates employed by them to execute such bonds with them, as they deem fit and necessary and in accordance with their rules and regulations in such cases.

Any litigation on matters arising out of this Scheme in India will be subject to sole jurisdiction of the courts situated in Tamil Nadu. The litigations arising abroad will be attended to be the Indian Missions abroad.

Applications on plain paper in the prescribed format are also invited for the award of nine passage grants in a year to Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes which are open throughout the year. Only those candidates who are in receipt of a merit scholarship for Post Graduate Studies, Research or Training abroad (excluding attending seminars, workshops, conferences). From a foreign government/ organization or under any other Scheme, where the cost of passage is not provided, will be eligible to apply.

The candidates should possess a Masters or an equivalent degree in Technical, Engineering and Science disciplines. The eligibility conditions otherwise will be same as contained in the Scheme of Government of Tamil Nadu Overseas Scholarship for SC,ST etc. The candidates who have already reached abroad, will not be considered for passage grants. For selected candidates, air passage to the destination abroad and back to India, will be provided by economy class and shortest route through arrangement with the national carrier. The prospective candidate can contact this Commissioner, Adi Dravidar Welfare, Chennai-5 for obtaining application form for applying for the passage grant.