Tata Steel’s Jyoti Scholarship to Built Careers of SC/ST Students

The Tata Steel distributes ‘Jyoti Fellowships’ to meritorious Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe students from Jharkhand. Since Jharkhand is the state from where the Tata began its venture in the steel sector. This scholarship programme was started in the 1970’s. Under this scholarship scheme, students from East-Singbhum, West-Singbhum, and Saraikela districts are selected after the rigorous selection process for the scholarship benefit. Students in the Inter, Degree, Post-graduation or Research scholars can avail the financial benefits through this scheme. Students from different streams like M.B.A, B. Ed, Polytechnic, Hotel Management, Agriculture, Forestry, LL.B, Social Work, and Masters in RD can avail the benefits under the scholarship programme.  

Benefits under the Jyoti Scholarship Programme

• The number of scholarships varies every year. On an average 300 - 400 students are selected every year for this scholarship.
• The total financial assistance is given to students also vary every year. On average students are distributed a minimum amount of ₹ 3,500 up to ₹ 25,000 depending upon their eligibility and course.

Eligibility for the Jyoti Scholarship Programme

• Students are selected on the basis of their merit.
• Eligibility for the different stream of students is different.