UT Administration of

Dadra & Nagar Haveli and Daman & Diu

Directorate of Education, Shiksah Sadan, Moti Daman
National Means cum Merit Scholarship Scheme (NMMSS), 2024-25
(Application Form for class VIII only)

Read the instruction carefully given on the For

nextthe Students
page beforeStudying in for
filling the Class X) form.
application
You may take the help from your teacher/parent for filling up the application form. Space for the Photograph
(Passport size)
Date of Examination:
Name of the examination centre: (UNIT-I) - Govt. High School, Tokarkhada(Eng. Med)
(UNIT-II) Govt. High School, Khanvel (Mar. Med)
(UNIT-III) Chandrashekhar Azad Upper Primary The Photograph should be
School (English Medium), Ringanwada endorsed by the Head of
the Institution/Gazetted
(UNIT-IV) Govt. High School, Fort Road, Diu

State Level 11 digit Roll Number

State Code Year Centre Code Serial No .(Office to fill) Class Date of birth

33 3 35
Date Month Year
1. Name of the candidate (Do not write Miss/Master) (As per Aadhar )

2. Father’s name (Do not write Mr./Dr./Prof)

3. Mother’s Name (Do not write Mr./Dr./Prof)

4. Sex 5. Area to which candidates resides 6. Caste category of candidate 7. Disability status
1 2 1 2 1 2 3 4 5 1 2 3 4 5 6
Male Female Rural Urban General OBC SC ST EWS BLV DH LD AID MD NONE
(Non Creamy Layer) Refer overleaf for details of codes
6b. Do you belong to OBC Category (Please Refer details given on www.ncbc.nic.in/user_panel/centralliststateview.aspc ) of Central list?

Yes 1 No 2 State OBC Name

(Please enclose a copy of the relevant certificate in support of information at Sr. No. 6 &7)
8. Postal address of the candidate for correspondence (Do not write father’s or your name)

.
Pin Code
9. Name and address of the School/Institution in which studying at Class X level

Pin Code

10. Type of the institution in which studying at Class X (see definition overleaf*) 11. Area in which the school is located
1 Govt 2 Local Body 3 Private aided 4 Private Unaided 1 Rural 2 Urban
10a. Are you Student of Kendriya Vidyalaya / Navodaya Vidyalaya? If yes write 1 If No write 2
10b. If yes write for 1 Kendriya Vidyalaya 2 for Navodaya Vidyalaya

12. Medium of examination (a) at the state Level (b) at the NCERT Level

13. Father’s education 14. Father’s Occupation 15. Mother’s education 16. Mother’s Occupation

14. No. of family members living in the house 18. No. of brothers 19. No. of sisters

15. At what no. is the candidate among his/her brothers and sisters
16. Parental annual income.
1 2 3 4 5
Upto 2,00,000 2,00,001 to 3,00,000 3,00,001 to 5,00,000 5,00,001 to 10,00,000 More than 10,00,000
,

17. Telephone
STD Code Phone 23. E-mail address
18. Mobile
(Do not leave this column blank)
To be filled by the Head of the Institution/Gazetted Officer
Certified that:
(1) Master/Miss. ..............................................................................................is a regular student of this School/Institution and he/she has
secured % marks in the class IX annual examination, i. e., when he/she was promoted from class IX to Class X.
He/She
has secured ................... marks out of.............................
(2) The particulars given by him/her in the application from have been verified and found in order.
(3) Master/Miss ................................................................................... belongs to Scheduled Caste/Scheduled Tribe category as per the
records maintained in the Institution. (to be filled for SC/ST candidates only)
…………………………………………………….
Date………………………………
Signature of the Headmaster/ Headmistress/Gazetted Officer
……..………………………… With seal
Signature of the candidate (See Instructions Overleaf)
 Coding Plan
Read instruction carefully before filling up the Application Form.
1. Use only Blue or Black Ball Point pen. WRITE IN CAPITAL LETTERS. Do not mark or write outside the boxes.
2. Leave one box blank between two words. Limit your name and/or address within the space provided for it. Please see example as given below.
3. Cross(x) only one of the appropriate boxes in items nos. 4, 5 ,6, 7, 10, 11 and 21.
4. Please write code number in items nos 12, 13, 14, 15 and 16 as given overleaf.
5. It is the responsibility of the candidate and the principal of the school to deposit the filled in form with the state concerned Officer before the last
date. No request for condoning delay in submission will be entertained whether it is due to the fault of the Candidate or the Headmaster/Principal
of his/her institution.
6. Incomplete or defensive applications are liable to be rejected.
7. Centre code DNH – 0001, Daman – 0002, Diu – 0003.
8. 4% for Physically Challenged Group of Students, with benchmark disabilities of which, one per cent each shall be reserved for
persons with benchmark disabilities under clauses (a), (b) and (c) and one per cent for persons with benchmark disabilities under
clauses (d) and (e) namely:
(a) blindness and low vision (BLV);
(b) deaf and hard of hearing (DH);
(c) locomotor disability including cerebral palsy, leprosy cured, dwarfism, acid attack victims and muscular
Dystrophy (LD);
(d) autism, intellectual disability, specific learning disability and mental illness (AID);
(e) multiple disabilities from amongst persons under clauses (a) to (d) including deaf- blindness in theposts
identified for each disabilities' (MD)
Example for writing Name and Address.
Father’s Name O P G U P T A

Postal Address: do not try to write complete address in one line. Break it appropriately as shown below:
1 4 5 / 6 M O U N T R O A D
Region State/UT Code
C H E N N A I PIN North Arunachal Pradesh 11
East
Assam 12

Medium of Examination Education of Father or Mother Manipur 13

(Refer to item 12) (Refer to item Nos 13 & 15) Meghalaya 14
Medium of Code Education Code Mizoram 15
Examination Nagaland 16
Assamese 11 No Formal Education 1 Sikkim 17
Bangla 12 Up to primary 2 Tripura 18
English 13 Upper primary 3
East A& N Islands 19
Gujarati 14 Secondary 4
Hindi 15 Senior secondary 5 Bihar 20
Kannada 16 Graduation 6 Jharkhand 21
Marathi 17 Post graduation 7 Odisha 22
Malayalam 18 Doctoral 8 West Bengal 23
Oriya 19 Professional degree 9
North Chandigarh 24
(Engineering,Law,
Medicaine, MCA, BA,etc) Delhi 25
Punjabi 20 Jammu & Kashmir 26
Tamil 21 Haryana 27
Telugu 22 Himachal Pradesh 28
Urdu 23 Punjab 29
Rajasthan 30
Father’s/ Mother’s occupation
Uttar Pradesh 31
(refer to item Nos 14 & 16)
Occupation Code Uttarakhand 32
Professsional 1 West Chhattisgarh 33
Executive and Managerial 2
Daman & Diu 34
Clerical 3
D&N Haveli 35
Business 4
Agriculture , fishery 5 Goa 36
Production and Transport 6 Gujarat 37
Operators and labourers 7
Madhya Pradesh 38
Not employed 8
Maharashtra 39
South Andhra Pradesh 40
*Type of School/Institutions (refer to item No.10)
GOVERNMENT A Government school is that which is run by the State Karnataka 41
Government or Public Sector undertaking or an Autonomous Kerela 42
Organization completely financed by the Government
Lakshadweep 43
LOCAL BODY A Local Body School is that which is run by Panchayati Raj
and local body institutions such as Zila Parichad, municipal Puducherry 44
Corporation, Municipal Committee, Notified Area Tamil Nadu 45
Committee and Cantonment Board
Telangana 46
PRIVATE AIDED A private aided school is that which is run by an individual
or a private organization and receives grant from Abroad 47
government or local body.
PRIVATE UNAIDED Private Unaided School is that which is managed by an
individual or a private organization and does not receive any
grant from government or local body.
 UT Administration of
Dadra & Nagar Haveli and Daman & Diu
Directorate of Education
Shiksha Sadan, Moti Daman
Daman-396220
NATIONAL MEANS-CUM-MERIT SCHOLARSHIP SCHEME

The Scheme:

1. Under this scheme scholarships are awarded to the gifted or meritorious students of Dadra &
Nagar Haveli and Daman & Diu whose parental income is not more than Rs.3,50,000/-per
annum from all sources.
2. The quota of scholarships for Dadra & Nagar Haveli will be for 22 Students whereas Daman
& Diu will have a quota of 16 students under this scheme.
3. The scheme will provide reservation to different categories of students as per the existing
reservation norms of the respective Districts i.e. DNH and DD.
4. These scholarships will be provided on yearly basis to the students studying as regular
students in class IX in a Government, Government-aided and local body schools which will
be renewed for classes X, XI and XII. Thus the scholarships will be for a maximum period of
four years.
5. The amount of scholarship will be Rs.12000/-per annum @Rs.1000 per month.

Sr.No Particulars Important Dates

Last date for the submission of application forms and the
examination fees.
Duly filled application forms, Examination fees and the students details
to be submitted by the schools on the below mentioned Address in
1 their respective Districts. 10.01.2025
District Address of District Nodal Officer
Dadra and Nagar Haveli Sports Coordinator :
Shri Jakhariabhai Devjibhai Kankva
District Panchayat,
Department of Primary Education,
Silvassa, Dadra and Nagar Haveli
Ph. - 9824689711
Email : [email protected]

Daman Shri Imtiyazali H. Momin, DNO,

Govt. High School, (EM), Ringanwada
Nani Daman.
Mo. No – 9898630820
Email : [email protected]
Diu Shri Arvind P. Solanki, DNO
Education Department, Collectorate ,
Bandar Chowk, Diu – 362520
Mo. No- 9426169228
Email : [email protected]

2 Date of Examination 16.02.2025

Eligibility;

1. The students should have minimum of 55% marks or equivalent grade in Class VII
examination or appearing in selection test for award of scholarship ( relaxable by 5% for
SC/ST students). The students should be studying in class VIII as regular student in a
Government, Government-aided and local body schools.
2. Applications for this examination can be downloaded from the official websites of Union
Territory Dadra Nagar Haveli (https://dnh.gov.in), Daman (https://ddd.gov.in) and Diu
(https://diu.gov.in). Each school will have to fill out its student applications offline.
3. The details of the students like Name of student, Date of Birth,should be filled in the
Application forms as per the students Aadhaar Card only.
Exam Pattern

1. The UT Administration of Dadra & Nagar Haveli and Daman & Diu will conduct
the test for selection of students for the award of the National Means-cum-Merit
Scholarship.
2. The medium of examination will be English and Gujarati only.

The State Level Examination will consist of the following two tests:
Test No. of Questions Marks Duration

MAT
(Mental 90 90 90 minutes
Ability Test)
SAT
(Scholastic 90 90 90 minutes
Ability Test)

3. Mental Ability Test (MAT) :-will consist of 90 multiple-choice questions testing verbal
and non- verbal meta-cognitive abilities like reasoning and critical thinking. The
questions in the test may be on analogy, classification, numerical series, pattern
perception, hidden figure etc.
4. Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) :- will consist of 90 multiple-choice questions covering
subjects namely, science, social studies and mathematics as taught in classes VII and VIII.
5. Blind students will be given 30 minutes extra time, as applicable.

Qualifying marks
For selecting the students, the following conditions may apply
1. The students should pass both the tests i.e. MAT and SAT with at least 40% marks in
aggregate taken together for these two tests. For the SC/ST students, this cut off will be
32% marks.
2. There will be no Negative Marking.
3. Only meritorious students will be eligible for the scholarships, as per the allocated
scholarship quota as mentioned above.
4. 4% for physically challenged Group of students. (For details refer coding plan).
5. The awardees should satisfy the eligibilities and the conditions mentioned in the scheme.

Documents required :
1. One Passport size Photo
2. Photo copy of students Adhaar card
3. Photocopy of class VII marksheet.
4. Income certificate (Issued by competent authority only)
5. Caste certificate. (Issued by competent authority only) if applicable.
6. PH certificate (if applicable.)
Examination Fees
1. General/EWS and OBC students – Rs.70/-
2. PH/SC/ST students – Rs. 50/-

Disbursement of Scholarships
1. A student can avail only one Scholarship under any scheme.
2. The UT Administration of DNH & DD will send the proposals/list of recommended
beneficiaries on-line on the Scholarship Portal.
3. The Ministry will scrutinize the proposal and sanction funds for releasing them to SBI,
The implementing bank for scheme for disbursal of scholarships to students directly in to
their bank accounts by electronic transfer.
 Schools are requested to submit the student’s information in prescribed format in Excel only

The Schools are here by directed to send the soft copy of the data on the email ids of thetheir
Respective District Only
Students details as per Aadhar Card only (Name, Date of Birth)

Annexure
Name of the School: Address:
Name of the District: Centre Code:

Caste PH Category Students

Sr. Students Full Name. Gender Categor (Physical Medium of Address
No. (Do Not write initials) Date Of Birth (Male/Female) y Handicaped ) Exam
(Yes/No) (ENGLISH/
(ST/SC/O
BC) GUJARATI
ONLY )