A total number of 4000 scholarships are available under Prime Minister’s scholarship Scheme for the professional courses duly recognized by the respective Government regulatory bodies to encourage higher technical and professional education for the dependent wards of Ex-Servicemen / Ex-Coast Guard and their widows (below officer rank only) and dependent wards/widows of Ex- Servicemen/Ex-Coast Guard who died in harness due to causes attributable to military service/Coast Guard service irrespective of rank. The priority for grant of scholarship is Wards/widows of personnel killed in action, disabled in action and boarded out of service with disability attributable to Military Service, personnel who died while in service for causes attributable to Military service, disabled in service in receipt of gallantry awards.
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