State Agriculture Scholarship for B.Sc. & M.Sc. Agriculture(SASBMA)

Overview

About SASBMA

Nagaland's Directorate of Agriculture pays a B.Sc. Agriculture student Rs 700 a month and an M.Sc. Agriculture student Rs 900, and in 2016-17 it carried 237 students on that roll, studying both inside the state and outside it (Department of Agriculture, Nagaland). The State Agriculture Scholarship for B.Sc. & M.Sc. Agriculture follows an admission you already hold. It is not a seat the state books for you at an agricultural university, and the difference decides what you have to do next.

This is a stipend, awarded to a student who is already enrolled. Nothing in the scheme allots a seat, nominates a candidate or runs an entrance test: the Directorate of Agriculture pays a monthly rate against an enrolment your institution certifies, which is why the eligibility clause opens on inhabitants of Nagaland "pursuing" B.Sc. or M.Sc. Agriculture rather than on candidates seeking admission (2025-26 scheme guidelines).

Nagaland does sponsor seats, and that is a separate line of the same Education & Training programme. The department pays a 25% state share against ICAR's 75% funding of the SASRD RAWE fee, and the pro-rata fee for the NEC quota at Assam Agricultural University, Jorhat, for state nominees (Department of Agriculture, Nagaland). Those are institutional payments made for nominated students. The scholarship on this page is money paid to the student, into the student's own account, and a nominee under the NEC quota and a self-financed student at a private college reach it by exactly the same route.

The programme's stated aim is narrow and worth reading literally: to strengthen human resource development by upgrading technical expertise, and to support students undergoing graduate and post-graduate study in agriculture disciplines within and outside the state.

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At a glance

Key details

Calendar

Important dates

Those rows do not agree, and the disagreement sits on the government's own site. The guideline PDF is headed 2025-26 and prints its window twice, on page 1 and again above the contact details on page 2, as 28th November 2025 to 31st January 2026 (2025-26 scheme guidelines). The portal card that links to that very PDF still carries the older dates under a Closed badge (Common Scholarship Portal).

Either way, nothing is open. The scheme listing marks this award Inactive, with applications not currently open for it, and no opening for the next session has been announced anywhere on the portal (Common Scholarship Portal, scholarships). Treat both rows above as history and watch the scheme card, not a news report.

What the two published records do agree on is the closing day. Every agriculture window the Directorate has posted ends on 31 January, this scholarship's on 31 January 2026 and the thesis grant's on 31 January 2024, which makes late January the month by which Annexure I needs to be back from your college rather than in the post.

Who can apply

Eligibility criteria

The guideline PDF numbers only three clauses, and the repeater bar hides inside the second of them. You must be an inhabitant of Nagaland reading for a B.Sc. or M.Sc. in Agriculture. Your application must come from an institution holding a valid AISHE or UDISE code, and the same clause, in its second sentence, rules out anyone who failed their last examination. And you must not be a beneficiary of any other scholarship scheme (2025-26 scheme guidelines).

Nothing there ranks you. The guidelines fix no family income ceiling, no marks or CGPA floor, no entrance rank and no cap on how many awards a session carries. A student in the fourth year of a B.Sc. and a student in the first semester of an M.Sc. answer the same questions.

Put one question to the department before you assume anything, because the document contradicts itself on who counts. Clause 1 opens the scheme to "all the inhabitants of Nagaland". The fresh-application checklist on the next page then asks for a Scheduled Tribe Certificate at item 4, alongside the Indigenous Inhabitant Certificate at item 5. Nothing in the three pages reconciles a scheme written for all inhabitants with a document list only a Scheduled Tribe applicant can complete, and the officer named further down is the person who can say which reading governs your case.

Who cannot apply

Exclusions

There is no exclusions heading in this document at all. Everything capable of ending an application is written either as an eligibility clause or as one of the seven numbered notes the Directorate prints under "Instruction/Information" (2025-26 scheme guidelines).

From the eligibility side, three things end it: repeating a class after failing, drawing any other scholarship, and applying through an institution with no AISHE or UDISE code.

From the instruction side, the bars are clerical rather than personal. A form carrying a bank account that is not the applicant's own is rejected on that ground alone; so are incomplete or wrong entries in the e-form and an incomplete set of enclosures. Annexure I is then judged separately at the foot of its own page, and fails there if it shows over-writing, arrives without both seals, or leaves the institution's full address and particulars unclear (2025-26 scheme guidelines).

Continuation

Renewal conditions

Renewal here is a category you select, not a status you inherit. A student who received the scholarship during 2024-25 continues by applying as "Renewal"; a student new to the scheme for 2025-26 who did not apply the previous year files as "Fresh" (2025-26 scheme guidelines). You pick between them on the portal in the same screen that creates the draft, before any scheme-specific field opens up (Common Scholarship Portal, how to apply).

Renewal drops three documents but not the annual signature. It still carries the last semester's progress report, the current admission receipt, the passbook page and a fresh Annexure I, and that last item is what makes "renewal" a misleading word here. Your head of institution certifies you from scratch each session and re-signs the undertaking that travels with the form.

No tenure is written anywhere in this scheme's guidelines. Nagaland's horticulture stipend, published on the same portal, does fix one, at four years for a B.Sc., two for an M.Sc. and three for a Ph.D. (State Horticulture Scholarship guidelines). Agriculture leaves every session standing on its own application.

What you get

Award & benefits

The rate is fixed by programme. Year of study, category and family income do not move it.

The department's own status table for 2016-17 put 54 students in the second year of a B.Sc., 60 in the third and 61 in the fourth, and the M.Sc. and Ph.D. rows carry the roll to 237 in all (Department of Agriculture, Nagaland). That is the last headcount the department has put out, and nothing states how many awards a current session carries.

Book grants and reimbursements go to enrolled students annually alongside the stipend, and the department files a thesis grant under the same State Plan head (Department of Agriculture, Nagaland). Read that last one carefully, because it is not a top-up you receive here: the thesis grant is a scheme in its own right on the portal, with its own guidelines, its own document list and its own window (State Agriculture Thesis Grant guidelines). No rupee value is attached to the book grant or the reimbursements anywhere, so budget on the monthly rate and treat the rest as unquantified.

• Under the scheme, the eligible students will get the scholarship at the following rates: Sl. No.Programme NameScholarship Amount1B.Sc. Agriculture₹700/- per month2M.Sc. Agriculture₹900/- per month2. The State Department of Agriculture also provides book grants & reimbursements annually to the enrolled students under the programme.

What to prepare

Documents required

Seven items for a fresh application, four for a renewal, and the three a renewal leaves behind are the Class X admit card, the Scheduled Tribe Certificate and the Indigenous Inhabitant Certificate (2025-26 scheme guidelines). The guidelines give no reason for the split, and none of the four items that survive it is a filed-once proof: the progress report, the admission receipt, the passbook page and Annexure I all have to be current.

Annexure I is the item that actually holds applications up, and it is one page your head of institution completes and signs. It certifies you as a regular student of B.Sc. or M.Sc. Agriculture in a named year or semester, states that you are not a repeater in the same class, and writes the institution's recognition number, which the form calls the AISHE Code, into clause 2. Four notes at the foot of that page decide whether it survives: a stamped signature is refused outright, the designation seal and the round seal are both compulsory, over-writing voids the form, and it goes back if the institution's full postal address and particulars are not clearly indicated. Studying outside Nagaland means posting that sheet to your college and getting it back before the window shuts.

The portal adds its own layer, separate from the guideline list. Its profile step asks every applicant to upload a passbook, an Aadhaar card, a photograph and any category certificates that apply, including ST, IIC, PRC and disability, before an application can be created at all (Common Scholarship Portal, how to apply).

Step by step

How to apply

The scheme is hosted on Nagaland's Common Scholarship Portal rather than handed off to a central portal, so the whole file lives in one account. The dashboard will not open a new application until the one-time DigiLocker identity check has cleared, and that check is where applicants stall when the name on the portal profile is spelled differently from the name on Aadhaar (Common Scholarship Portal, how to apply).

After that, one step in the sequence trips up this scheme's applicants in particular. Creating the application asks for your institution's state and district before it will show you a list of institutions, and for a Naga student at an agricultural university in Assam the state to choose is Assam (Common Scholarship Portal, how to apply). Annexure I and the rest of your category's documents go up under required documents, and the preview screen is the last point at which anything can be altered, because the guidelines state flatly that correction or rectification after online submission will not be entertained (2025-26 scheme guidelines).

Spend a minute on the bank column. The account has to be the applicant's own, and a form naming anyone else's is rejected for that reason by itself. The Directorate also disclaims responsibility for a stipend that never lands because the details entered were wrong or the account was inactive, which is reason enough to read the passbook page back against what you typed (2025-26 scheme guidelines).

Tracking the Application and Chasing the Payment

Two things are worth taking off the confirmation screen before you close it: the application ID, and the confirmation PDF the portal offers there (Common Scholarship Portal, how to apply). From then on the dashboard badge is as far as the portal's own tracking goes. It sorts applications into Draft, Submitted, Rejected and Approved, and walks a live one through Submitted, Under Process, Verified and Approved as officials work on it. Rejected is the single state that hands the form back for editing, which is why a rejection is a working instruction rather than a dead end; every other state is a wait.

How winners are picked

Selection process

Nothing here is ranked, so there is nothing to prepare for. Read the three pages end to end and you will not find a merit list, an interview, a selection board or an entrance test anywhere in them. What they set out instead is a two-signature verification: your head of institution attests enrolment, non-repetition and the AISHE code on Annexure I, and the Scholarship Section of the Directorate of Agriculture checks that page and the uploads against the three eligibility clauses (2025-26 scheme guidelines).

That is why a correctly sealed file is the whole of your case, and why two of the guidelines' three pages go on document discipline rather than on criteria.

Fine print

Terms & conditions

Instruction 4 is the one to read twice, because its penalty outlives the application it attaches to. Submit a paper or a declaration the Directorate later finds false, or obtain the money by fraud, and you are blacklisted for the whole span of your studies, shut out of every other scholarship scheme across that period, and made to repay whatever has already reached you (2025-26 scheme guidelines).

The condition that runs through the year is not yours to keep, which is the odd part of it. Clause 3 of Annexure I is an undertaking given by your head of institution, not by you: they commit to report to the Director of Agriculture if you leave the institution, discontinue studies, accept any other scholarship, or fail to secure 75% attendance in classes (2025-26 scheme guidelines). Attendance is a live test all session even though no eligibility clause mentions it.

No bond and no service condition is published for this scheme. Across the three pages of the 2025-26 guidelines, Annexure I included, there is nothing about returning to Nagaland, joining the state's agriculture service, or repaying the stipend on taking private employment, and the scheme's own record on the national scheme directory carries no such term either (2025-26 scheme guidelines, myScheme record). The only money the Directorate reserves a right to take back is money obtained by fraud.

Get help

Contact

The guidelines print three phone numbers and split them by purpose. Scheme questions go to the Scholarship Section of the Agriculture Department on 9774452095 or 8414820012, while a fault on the portal itself goes to the IT & C help desk on 8929307387 (2025-26 scheme guidelines). The same two Scholarship Section numbers are printed on the Directorate's thesis grant guidelines, so read them as the agriculture desk rather than as a line reserved for this award (State Agriculture Thesis Grant guidelines).

The portal names the officer sitting behind that desk: Andrew C. Imti, at tdirimi@gmail.com and hfwadmin@scholarship.nagaland.gov.in, listed against this scholarship and against the thesis grant and against no other scheme on the portal (Common Scholarship Portal, scholarships). Write from the email you registered with and put the application ID in the subject line. With two agriculture schemes on one officer's plate, that is what separates a stipend query from a thesis-grant one.

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