The Government of Odisha, in a bid to benefit maximum meritorious students, has decided to launch a common scholarship portal. This is an attempt to ease the process of applying for scholarships. The single digital platform ‘Odisha State Scholarship Portal’ will publish all the scholarship schemes. and will be maintained and regulated by Odisha Computer Application Centre (OCAC).
“The common portal will go live from April 2020. OCAC has been asked to complete development, testing and trial run of the portal before that. Aadhaar authenticated e-KYC process will be explored for authentic disbursal of scholarship,” an official said.
OCAC will use the following databases to develop a comprehensive ‘Student Registry’:
• Pre-metric Unified District Information System of Education (UDISE) database of Odisha Primary Education Programme Authority (OPEPA)
• Odisha School Education Programme Authority (OSEPA) and post-metric database of Student Academic Management System (SAMS)
Apart from data analysis, the student registry can also be used for delivery of many other benefits including financial incentives to school students for the purchase of bicycles by School and Mass Education Department.
As per Information, the Odisha State Scholarship Portal will be integrated into the iFMS to create an end-to-end scholarship disbursement process without any human intervention. Furthermore, the OCAC will ease the process by providing modules in the common portal for data analytics and blockchain to help several departments collecting data based on policy decisions.