DME Tripura Notifies on State Run Scholarship, Stipend To Medical, Nursing, Pharmacy, Paramedical Students

Tripura: The Director of Medical Education (DME Tripura) has notified about state-run scholarships and stipends to medical, pharmacy nursing and paramedical students.

As per the notice, the Directorate of Medical Education under the Health & Family Welfare Department, Government of Tripura, is administering the following welfare scheme to provide financial benefit to the students of Medical Colleges, Pharmacy Institutes, Nursing Institutes and Paramedical Institutes that are state nominee candidates of Tripura being nominated from the Directorate of Medical Education and/Directorate of Health Services and which is being implemented through Directorate of Medical Education, Government of Tripura, provided the student is not drawing stipend from any other source or similar welfare schemes from any other source does not provide any financial benefit to the same student or to his/her Parents/Guardians on his/her behalf.

The following are the schemes –

1. Scheme – State-run Scholarship and Stipend to Medical Students

2. Scheme - State-run Scholarship and Stipend Pharmacy, Nursing, and paramedical Students

Under the Schemes, a Stipend (hereinafter referred to as the benefit) is given to the eligible Students of Medical & Nursing, Pharmacy & Paramedical courses (hereinafter referred to as the beneficiaries), by the Implementing Agency as per the extant Scheme guidelines, whereas, the aforesaid Schemes involved recurring expenditures incurred from the Consolidated Fund of Tripura State.

The use of Aadhaar as an identity document for the delivery of services or, benefits, or subsidies simplifies the Government delivery processes, brings in transparency and efficiency, and enables beneficiaries to get their entitlements directly in a convenient and seamless manner by obviating the need to produce multiple documents to prove one’s identity.

Now, therefore, in pursuance of Section 7 of the Aadhaar (Targeted Delivery of Financial and Other Subsidies, Benefits, and Services) Act, 2016 (18 of 2016) (hereinafter referred to as the said Act), the Government of Tripura hereby notifies the following, namely -

An individual eligible to receive the benefits under the Schemes shall be required to furnish proof of possession of an Aadhaar number or undergo Aadhaar authentication.

Any individual desirous of availing benefits under the Schemes who does not possess the Aadhaar number or, has not yet enrolled for an Aadhaar, shall be required to make an application for Aadhaar enrolment before registering for the Scheme provided that he is entitled to obtain an Aadhaar as per section 3 of the said Act, and such individuals shall visit any Aadhaar enrolment center (list available at the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) website) to get enrolled for Aadhaar.

As per regulation 12 of the Aadhaar (Enrolment and Update) Regulations, 2016, the Department, through its Implementing Agency, is required to offer Aadhaar enrolment facilities for the beneficiaries who are not yet enrolled for Aadhaar and in case there is no Aadhaar enrolment center located in the respective District, Sub-Division or Block, the Department through its Implementing Agency shall provide Aadhaar enrolment facilities at convenient locations in coordination with the existing Registrars of UIDAI or by becoming a UIDAI Registrar themselves.

Provided that till the time Aadhaar is assigned to the individual, benefits under the Schemes shall be given to such individual, subject to the production of the following documents, namely -

If he/she has enrolled, his/her Aadhaar Enrolment Identification slip and

Any one of the following documents, namely: -

1. Bank or Post office Passbook with Photo; or

2. Permanent Account Number (PAN) Card; or

3. Passport; or

4. Ration Card; or

5. Voter Identity Card; or

6. MGNREGA card, or

7. Kisan Photo passbook, or

8. Driving license issued by the Licensing Authority under the Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 (59 of 1988); or

9. Certificate of identity having a photo of such person issued by a Gazetted Officer or a Tehsildar on official letterhead or

10. Any other document as specified by the Department.

Provided further that the above documents may be checked by an officer specifically designated by the Department for that purpose -

in case the biometric authentication through fingerprints or iris scan, or face authentication is not successful, wherever feasible and admissible authentication by Aadhaar One Time Password or Time-based One-Time Password with limited time validity, as the case may be, shall be offered

in all other cases where biometric or Aadhaar One Time Password or Time-based One-Time Password authentication is not possible, benefits under the Schemes may be given on the basis of a physical Aadhaar letter whose authenticity can be verified through the Quick Response (QR) code printed on the Aadhaar letter and the necessary arrangement of QR code reader shall be provided at the convenient locations by the Department through its Implementing Agency.

In addition to the above, in order to ensure that no bona fide beneficiary under the Schemes is deprived of his/her due benefits, the Department, through its Implementing Agency, shall follow the exception-handling mechanism as outlined in the Office Memorandum of DBT Mission, Cabinet Secretariat, Government of India dated 19th December 2017. This notification shall come into effect from the date of its publication in the Official Gazette.

To view the notice, click on the link below –

https://medicaldialogues.in/pdf_upload/shogazette-1-229140.pdf