Student scholar ship scheme system
Abstract : Education plays a vital role in human life. To encourage higher education, the Indian government has taken many initiatives. These include the disbursement of scholarships to financially help the students belonging to low-income families. Central Sector Scheme of Scholarship for College and University Students (CSS) is one such scheme that financially helps meritorious students in pursuing graduation and post-graduation. This scheme was introduced in 2008. Scholarships from CSS have been helping students to fund their educational expenses. But there have been some difficulties faced by the students in availing this scholarship. These include lack of traceability of application form, loss of application form in transit through Indian Postal Service, lack of transparency between students and their respective Education Boards, and lack of bank account verification. In this paper, we propose a Smart Contract for CSS Scheme that overcomes the above-mentioned drawbacks. It has four entities: Students, Education Boards, Colleges, and Banks. The Blockchain-based Smart Contract proposed in this paper, has been developed to provide a user-friendly environment to a student and maintain a transparent and constant connection between students and their respective Education Boards. Many applications have been developed on the Blockchain platform but to the best of our knowledge, there does not exists any government scholarship scheme on the Blockchain platform in India.
? In the existing process of the CSS Scheme, the authentication of a student is done by his College and the Education Board.
? There have been continuous efforts to improve the existing system, but there are still some areas where the improvement is required.
? To automate and improve the existing system, we propose Blockchain based Smart Contract for CSS Scheme.
? A Smart Contract runs on Blockchain technology which provides the decentralization and tamper-proof records. Smart Contract for CSS Scheme will automate the existing system and reduce the need for manual labor, hence reduce the time consumption.
? To make the process less taxing, orders have been issued by APSMFC officials/tehsildars for the speedy issuance of income certificates after validation.
? Creating such a transparent and efficient online system and infrastructure proved to be time consuming.
? Every area does not have access to internet facilities and neither ar computer literate.
? To deal with this issue, the APSMFC has tied up with NGO’s to set up camps during admissions.
? They have also helped to set up separate scholarship cells in colleges to provide necessary assistance.
• The Blockchain-based Smart Contract proposed in this paper, has been developed to provide a user-friendly environment to a student and maintain a transparent and constant connection between students and their respective Education Boards.
• Smart Contract based scheme for scholarship distribution in India has not been proposed until now in any existing research work.
• In the proposed system, the entity corresponding to Education Boards has been automated with the help of Smart Contract.
• In the proposed system, whenever a student fills the CSS Scheme form successfully, a pending application for college is created.
? This initiative is aimed to facilitate faster and efficient disposal of scholarship applications and timely payment of the scholarships to the students, directly in their bank accounts.
? Post-Matric Scholarship Scheme has been solely put forth to offer financial support to the economically weaker students from the ST, SC & OBC/SEBC Communities.
? This scheme offers Scholarships for the students to pursue Professional and Non Professional courses after Matriculation.
? The main objective of this integrated e-Governance Portal is for the automation, streamlining & effective management of processes related to application receipt, processing, sanction and disbursal of Post-Matric Scholarships to Students .
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