Students of Jammu and Kashmir will get an additional quota of seats in paramedical and hotel management degree courses, and for the first time six seats are on offer from ISRO for degree courses in Space, Science and Technology at ISRO under the Prime Minister’s Special Scholarship Scheme (PMSSS) for students of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh.
This was stated during a meeting of Commissioner Secretary, Higher Education Talat Parvez, with chairperson, AICTE, New Delhi, regarding the PMSSS for students of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh, read a statement from the Department of Information and Public Relation, Jammu and Kashmir.
The meeting was attended by Director Colleges, Director School Education, Nodal Principal Jammu, Nodal Principal Srinagar and Consultant, PMSSS.
Under the scheme, 5,000 scholarships are offered to the students of the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir, and Ladakh on merit basis in top 200 NIRF and government approved AICTE institutions which are NBA accredited.
