Azim Premji Scholarship
An initiative to support girl students to pursue their college education.
Last date to accept scholarship offer is 21 March 2025. Complete the acceptance process to avoid cancellation of your offer
For logging in to the Scholarship Portal, click here.
Attention: All Applicants
Dear Applicant,
- We have started the process of issuing Scholarship offers. Last date to accept scholarship offer is 21 March 2025.
- If your application has been shortlisted, you will receive an SMS from us on your registered mobile number.
- Once you receive this SMS, you must log in to the Scholarship Portal to accept the Scholarship Offer and sign the Scholarship Agreement online by uploading a clear and scanned colour copy of your signature and a self-attested bank account statement for the last 1 month.
- Also, please ensure all your documents are as per guidelines to avoid rejection and cancellation of your application. To read more, please refer to How to Accept Offer section.
- Some applications are still under review. Hence, some of you may still receive an SMS requesting resubmission of documents. For detailed instructions on resubmission, please refer How to Resubmit Documents section.
The Azim Premji Scholarship is part of Azim Premji Foundation’s commitment to improving quality and equity of education in India. The scholarship seeks to support girl students from disadvantaged backgrounds in their pursuit of college education.
Access to education becomes increasingly difficult when a student, especially a girl, moves from primary to secondary schooling, and even more so in higher education. The reasons are many, ranging from distance to institutions, social mores and financial constraints.
The Azim Premji Scholarship seeks to help address the matter of financial constraints that girls face in accessing college education.
Applications for the academic year 2024-25 cohort are now closed.
- In this cycle (year 2024-25), we will support girl students who have passed Grade X and XII both from a government school and have secured admission in the first year of a regular degree or diploma programme of a government or credible bona fide private college/ university (more details below).
- Selected students will be awarded a scholarship of INR 30,000 per year for the entire duration (two, three, four or five years) of the undergraduate course/ programme to cover tuition fees or any other expenses incurred towards completion of their education.
- This scholarship, in its ‘pilot’ phase this year, is being launched in limited geographies (details below). It will soon be expanded to cover the entire country.
All girl students from Madhya Pradesh, select districts* of Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh, or Itki block, Ranchi, Jharkhand, who:
- Have passed Grade X from a local government school;
- Have passed Grade XII from a government (regular/open) school in the academic year 2023-24 or prior; and
- Have secured admission as a regular student in the first year of a recognised undergraduate degree or diploma course at a government institution or credible bona fide private college or university at the time of application.
*List of select districts are as follows:
Rajasthan (22 districts)
Ajmer, Alwar, Balotra, Banswara, Baran, Barmer, Chittorgarh, Dudu, Dungarpur, Jaipur, Jaipur (Gramin), Jalore, Jhalawar, Jodhpur, Kekri, Pali, Pratapgarh, Rajsamand, Salumbar, Sawai Madhopur, Sirohi, Tonk and Udaipur
Uttar Pradesh (35 districts)
Ambedkar Nagar, Amethi, Ayodhya (formerly Faizabad) , Azamgarh, Bahraich, Ballia, Balrampur, Banda, Bara Banki, Basti, Chandauli, Chitrakoot, Deoria, Fatehpur, Ghazipur, Gonda, Gorakhpur, Jaunpur, Kaushambi, Kushinagar, Lucknow, Mahrajganj, Mau, Mirzapur, Prayagraj (formerly Allahabad), Pratapgarh, Rae Bareli, Sant Kabir Nagar, Sant Ravidas Nagar (formerly Bhadohi), Shrawasti, Siddharthnagar, Sitapur, Sonbhadra, Sultanpur and Varanasi
The applicant must submit CLEAR, READABLE and COLOURED SCANNED FILES of the following documents:
- Original marksheets of Grade X and XII
- Original Aadhaar Card
- Any one of the following documents as proof of admission to college:
- (Provisional) admission certificate OR
- Bona fide certificate OR
- Fee receipt
Note: Please ensure you submit at least one document as proof of admission. It should clearly display applicant’s name, college name, course start date/year of study and course type. It must be either system generated or printed on the official letterhead of the University or College with a seal and sign of the relevant authority.
- A passport-size photograph with a plain background (taken within last 6 months).
- Scanned documents should be clearly visible. It should not have any added elements such as emojis or stamp of the camera/app being used.
- The Scholarship Portal will accept documents only in PDF/PNG/JPG/JPEG format; file size should be less than 1.5 MB.
If the documents are not as per requirement, the applicant will receive an SMS “Your Application requires document resubmission. Please visit our website to log in and resubmit the required documents within 2 weeks to avoid rejection of your application. – Azim Premji Scholarship.”
The applicant will have to resubmit the correct documents on the Scholarship Portal within 14 days (including holidays, Saturday & Sunday) of receiving this SMS, to avoid rejection of their application.
Below is a step-by-step guide on how to resubmit documents. Please go through these carefully before initiating the process.
Applications that are shortlisted will receive an SMS on the registered mobile number stating:
“Your application has been shortlisted for further processing. Please visit our website to log in and update the required information within 10 days to avoid rejection of your application – Azim Premji Scholarship.”
On receiving such an SMS, applicants must log in to the Scholarship Portal to accept the Scholarship Offer and sign the Scholarship Agreement online to confirm their Scholarship Award. Applicants must accept the Scholarship Offer and sign the Scholarship Agreement online by uploading a clear and scanned colour copy of their signature and a self-attested bank account statement for the last 1 month within 10 days (including Saturday, Sunday and holidays) of receiving the SMS. Failure to do so will lead to cancellation of the Scholarship Offer.
Please ensure that the applicant’s bank account is in their own name in one of the Scheduled Commercial Banks
Last date to accept scholarship offer is 21 March 2025. Complete the acceptance process to avoid cancellation of your offer.
Given below is a step-by-step guide on how to accept the offer. Please go through these before initiating the process.
Note: The Foundation does not charge any fee at any stage of the scholarship application process. Beware of impostors who make such statements with the intent to cheat. Students are requested to exercise caution and not fall prey to such scams.
