SHRESTHA SCHEME (Syllabus: GS Paper 2 – Govt Schemes)

Context: Recently, SHRESHTA has been making significant strides in expanding the scope of development interventions by collaborating with grant-in-aid institutions run by NGOs and residential high schools.

SHRESTHA Scheme

• Objective: Its primary objective is to enhance the socio-economic standing of Scheduled Castes individuals by offering top-tier education to their children in the finest private residential schools across the nation.
• Eligibility: Students must belong to the marginalized income groups within the SC community.
• Parental annual income must be less than Rs.2.5 Lakh annually.
• Mechanism: This mechanism is referred to as the National Entrance Test for SHRESHTA (NETS).
• The National Testing Agency (NTA) will be responsible for conducting NETS.
• Beneficiaries: The government has targeted that every year around 3000 students belonging to the SC category will be admitted to Class 9 and Class 11 under this system.