NBHM Scholarship Schemes
Policy related to Selection
By submitting the application, the applicant certifies that:
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The applicant satisfies at least one of the several eligibility criteria listed under section 6.1 "Written Test" of the advertisement.
- All information filled on the application form is true and complete.
and agrees to all the following:
- Application fee is non-refundable. However, in case the written test cannot be held as scheduled, the application fee (but not the collection charges) shall be returned to the bank account whose details appear on the application form.
- The key to the written test shall be published soon after the test and only a short window of time (not less than 24 hours) shall be given during which it can be challenged.
- Interview shortlists and final selection results (including the names of the candidates) shall be published on this web page. To this extent, the selection results shall be public knowledge.
- Intimation to the candidates shortlisted for the interview shall be sent only by email to their registered email address (the address through which the application was filed on the portal).
- NBHM is at liberty to share the test scores and other details of the test and interview performance directly (but privately) with the ten institutions mentioned on the first page of
the advertisement.
- The details of the academic track record to be submitted by the candidate (if shortlisted for the interview) shall be complete and accurate.
- Final selection for grant of either scholarship shall primarily be on the basis of performance on the test and interview, but the selection committee is at liberty to take into consideration other aspects of the academic track record of the candidate.
- Candidates finally selected for the grant of either scholarship shall receive a formal offer letter from NBHM. No other form of certification of performance on the test or interview shall be issuable.
However, all candidates shall be able to check their own individual total test score by logging into the portal (after those scores are uploaded). This facility shall be available for only a limited period of time (not less than a month) after the test scores are uploaded.
- Foreign nationals are eligible for the Written Test, but the Scholarships are open only to Indian nationals. (The test scores serve purposes other than selection for the scholarships.)
- For candidates who have been at any time in the past or are presently enrolled in a doctoral programme, the stipend and tenure of the Doctoral Scholarship shall be adjusted downward at NBHM's discretion.
- A candidate who has drawn the Master's scholarship in the past is not eligible again for selection to the Master's Scholarship. (Such a candidate would not however be disqualified for this reason from being selected for the Doctoral scholarship.)