Award for Meritorious Students of Meghalaya in the HSSLC Examination (Science Stream)

What is the Award for Meritorious Students of Meghalaya in the HSSLC Examination (Science Stream)?

Award for Meritorious Students of Meghalaya in the HSSLC Examination (Science Stream) is a state scheme of the Education Department, Government of Meghalaya, operated by the Directorate of Educational Research and Training (DERT), Shillong. The scheme recognises Scheduled Tribe students who perform meritoriously in the Higher Secondary School Leaving Certificate (HSSLC) examination in the Science stream, and pays them a one-time scholarship directly into their bank accounts.

According to the Meghalaya state portal listing for the scheme, the Education Department is the administering department, the beneficiaries are students, the benefit is a scholarship, the community is ST, the sponsor is the State and the funding is 100 per cent from the state government. The mode is recorded as "offline from DERT".

The reason the scheme exists is straightforward. The Science stream at the higher secondary stage is the feeder for medicine, engineering, agriculture and research careers, and it is also the most expensive stream to continue into. Meghalaya therefore attaches a cash recognition to the top HSSLC Science performers from Scheduled Tribe communities, at exactly the point where a student is paying admission fees for a degree course.

How does the award work, step by step?

The published process has three stages and none of them begins with the student.

1. MBOSE declares the HSSLC (Science Stream) result and furnishes the list of students to DERT.
2. DERT screens the documents, marksheets, Scheduled Tribe certificates and the like.
3. DERT transfers the one-time scholarship directly to the student's bank account through NEFT or RTGS.

That is the whole mechanism. There is no form to buy, no fee to pay and no agent to engage.

Who is eligible for the HSSLC Science stream award?

A student is covered if:

• The student appeared in and passed the HSSLC examination in the Science stream conducted by the Meghalaya Board of School Education.
• The student belongs to a Scheduled Tribe community, which the state portal records as the community for this scheme.
• The student's name appears on the merit list furnished by MBOSE to DERT after the result.
• The student's documents survive DERT's screening, principally the marksheet and the Scheduled Tribe certificate.

A student is not eligible if:

• The student took the Arts or Commerce stream. The scheme as notified is limited to the Science stream, and separate state scholarship schemes such as the Post-Matric Merit Scholarship for Tribal Students and the Meghalaya Tribal Students' Book Grant cover other streams.
• The student is not a Scheduled Tribe of Meghalaya.
• The student's marks do not place them on the merit list MBOSE furnishes. This is a merit award, not a universal entitlement, so a pass alone is not enough.

There is no separate income test published for this scheme, and no age bar is recorded on the state portal listing.

How to apply for the award

1. Do not look for an application form, there is none. The published route for this scheme starts with MBOSE, not with the student. Concentrate instead on the HSSLC Science examination itself, since the merit list is the only entry point.
2. Keep your documents ready before the result. Obtain or renew your Scheduled Tribe certificate from the competent revenue authority, and open a savings bank account in your own name if you do not already have one. DERT pays by NEFT or RTGS and cannot pay into a parent's account by default.
3. Watch the MBOSE result and the DERT notice board. The HSSLC Science result is published by MBOSE at mbose.in, and DERT posts scholarship and award notices on its notice board page on megeducation.gov.in.
4. Submit the documents DERT asks for, through your school or college. When DERT calls for documents, send the HSSLC marksheet, the Scheduled Tribe certificate and the bank account details. DERT routinely accepts such submissions routed through the Principal, by post or by email, for its student award schemes.
5. Confirm the credit in your bank account after the screening is complete, and take up any failed transfer with DERT immediately with a corrected passbook copy.

How much is the award worth?

The Education Department has not published the amount for this scheme. The state portal entry describes the benefit only as a scholarship, and states that DERT transfers a one-time scholarship directly to the student's bank account. No rupee figure appears in the published description, and no departmental notification fixing the rate is available on megeducation.gov.in at the time of writing.

Any figure you see quoted on a private scholarship aggregator for this award should therefore be treated as unverified. Ask DERT in writing for the current sanctioned rate before making any financial plan around it. For comparison, the neighbouring DERT scheme, the State Talent Search Examination for tribal students at the Upper Primary stage — carries a published one-time award of Rs 20,500, but that figure belongs to that scheme and cannot be assumed here.

Why do awards get delayed or missed?

• The name never reached DERT. Because MBOSE supplies the list, an error in the board's records, a wrong stream tag, a misspelt name, a duplicated roll number: keeps a genuinely meritorious student off the list. Check your marksheet details against your school records as soon as the result is out.
• Scheduled Tribe certificate missing or expired. The certificate is one of the two documents named in the screening stage. Get it from the competent authority in your district, not from a school or a private notary.
• Bank account problems. A NEFT or RTGS credit fails on a wrong IFSC, a closed account, a dormant KYC-incomplete account, or a name on the passbook that does not match the marksheet. Fix the name mismatch first; it is the most common one.
• Documents sent by the student instead of through the institution. DERT works through Principals for its award schemes. Route your papers that way and keep the acknowledgement.

What are the key dates?

Award for Meritorious Students of Meghalaya in the HSSLC Examination (Science Stream) has no application deadline, because there is no application. The calendar is set by the MBOSE HSSLC Science result, which is usually declared in the first half of the calendar year, and by DERT's screening and disbursement that follows. Watch mbose.in for the result and megeducation.gov.in for DERT's notices immediately afterwards.

Where do I complain if the award does not arrive?

Write to the Directorate of Educational Research and Training, Nongrimmaw, Laitumkhrah, Shillong 793011, whose published email is dertmegh@gmail.com, attaching your HSSLC marksheet, Scheduled Tribe certificate and bank details, and asking specifically whether your name was received from MBOSE. If the Directorate does not respond, escalate to the Education Department office at Room 222, Ground Floor, Additional Secretariat, Shillong, phone 0364-2224201. The Meghalaya Right to Information portal at megrti.gov.in can be used to ask for the sanctioned rate and the list of awardees for a given year if the department does not publish them.

A note on what is and is not confirmed

Two facts about this scheme are firmly established on official sources: the process, MBOSE list, DERT screening, direct NEFT or RTGS transfer, and the coverage, which is Scheduled Tribe students in the HSSLC Science stream under a 100 per cent state-funded scheme. The award amount, the number of awards each year and any income condition are not published. This guide deliberately leaves those blank rather than repeating a figure from an unofficial source.