Veda Vyasa Scheme for Vedic Education(VVSVE)

Overview

About VVSVE

The Andhra Pradesh Brahmin Welfare Corporation's abstract of beneficiaries carries a Vedavyasa row with three blank years and one full one: nothing from 2015-16 through 2017-18, then 155 students and Rs 21.60 lakh in 2018-19 (abstract of beneficiaries, A.P. Brahmin Welfare Corporation). That one line is the entire published record of what this scheme has paid out. What it buys is a child in full time Vedic study, aged 8 to 19, at a Veda Pathasala the state already recognises (scheme guidelines).

Vedic study sits outside the school and college system, which means it sits outside every scholarship built around marks, board results and college admission. This scheme is the corporation's answer to that, and it is written for the course rather than for the calendar year of schooling: what a student is paid depends on which Vedic course is being recited, not on which standard the student would otherwise be in.

The decisive test is not the student's. It is the pathasala's. The course has to be a full time one in Yajur Veda, Rig Veda, Sama Veda, Atharvana Veda or Smartham, and the institution teaching it has to be registered with Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams or with the Endowments Department of Andhra Pradesh, or enlisted by the corporation itself (scheme guidelines). A child taught privately, or at a pathasala on none of those registers, has nowhere to file.

Two documents govern the scheme and they do not read alike. The corporation introduced it on a notification that promised monthly financial assistance (earlier VV-VE notification), then reissued it for 2019-20 as annual financial assistance over the same six courses (scheme guidelines). Most of what a listing gets wrong about this scheme comes from quoting one of those two and not the other.

Who runs it

Provider

At a glance

Key details

Calendar

Important dates

Nothing in this scheme runs to a calendar. The 2019-20 guidelines print a year in their heading and then say nothing whatever about when a family may file (scheme guidelines), and the myScheme record leaves both of its date fields blank.

Rounds get announced instead, and the corporation's notifications page is where an announcement would show up. Not one entry on that list is a Veda Vyasa call: the student-facing postings on it belong to other schemes the corporation runs, and its newest item of any kind is a vehicle tender (notifications). Until the corporation posts something, a family is safer treating the window as unannounced than reading silence as an open round.

Who can apply

Eligibility criteria

Two conditions do most of the rejecting, and neither is about the Vedas.

The first is where the parents live. The residence test attaches to the parents, not to the student and not to the pathasala, and the Aadhaar the corporation asks for has to carry an Andhra Pradesh address (scheme guidelines).

The second is the Praja Sadhikara Survey. Enrolment in the survey is a condition in its own right, and what an applicant types is validated against MeeSeva records and Praja Sadhikara Survey data before anyone reads the file (scheme guidelines). A name spelled one way on the caste certificate and another way in the survey entry is a paperwork problem rather than a merit problem, and it is easier to fix before a round opens than during one.

Past the first rung there is a third gate. Padam, Kramam, Jata and Ghanam are ladder courses, and an applicant for any of them has to have completed the course below. The prescribed study certificate makes the pathasala state which of Moolam, Padam, Kramam and Jata the student has already passed, so that claim is settled at the institution rather than on the form (study certificate proforma).

What the norms never test is money or marks. The eligibility list runs to four conditions, and none of them is an income ceiling, a percentage, or a result from the year before (scheme guidelines).

Who cannot apply

Exclusions

Nothing in the 2019-20 norms is headed as a disqualification. What follows is the eligibility list turned over, and each line is a way a Veda Pathasala application actually dies (scheme guidelines):

• A pathasala on none of the three registers the norms accept, meaning Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams, the Endowments Department, or the corporation's own enlistment.
• A course taught part time, since the norms fund full time Vedic study only.
• Padam, Kramam, Jata or Ghanam claimed without the course under it completed.
• A student the Praja Sadhikara Survey has no record of.
• A passbook from a bank other than the two the guidelines name, or one standing in a parent's name.
• An age well away from the band written against the course, which the guidelines set out as approximate rather than as a hard cut-off.

Continuation

Renewal conditions

The guidelines say nothing about what happens in year two, and the only Veda Vyasa paper the corporation publishes for download is the study certificate format, with no continuation form beside it (forms and formats).

Continuation was the pathasala's job under the earlier notification, which required the Vedic school to certify attendance and continuation in the course once every three months, in January, April, July and October (earlier VV-VE notification). The study certificate itself covers one academic year at a time (study certificate proforma), so the Smartham and Moolam courses, which the rate table runs over six years, are evidenced afresh each round rather than carried forward on the original sanction (scheme guidelines).

What you get

Award & benefits

Listings quote this scheme at Rs 3,000 a month and at Rs 36,000 a year, and both are quoting the corporation. The earlier notification set six monthly rates (earlier VV-VE notification); the 2019-20 guidelines carry the same six courses with the money written annually (scheme guidelines). Twelve times each monthly rate is exactly the annual figure that replaced it, on every row, so the two documents differ in unit and not in generosity.

The money is credited online to the student's SB account, and the passbook has to stand in the student's own name, signed and stamped by the branch manager (scheme guidelines). On the Smartham and Moolam rows that means an account opened for a child of eight. It is also one of only three files the 2019-20 round asks anyone to upload, next to the study certificate and the course completion certificate. The guidelines accept it from Andhra Bank or the State Bank of India, and Andhra Bank has since gone: the Central Government notified a scheme amalgamating it into Union Bank of India in the Gazette of India (amalgamation of Andhra Bank and Corporation Bank, Union Bank of India).

• Course wise Financial Assistance: Sl. No.Approximate Age of the StudentCoursePeriod of StudyAnnual Financial Assistance1Between 8 & 19 YearsSmartham6 Years₹12,000/- 2Between 8 & 14 YearsMoolam6 Years₹12,000/- 3Between 13 & 16 YearsPadam3 Years ₹24,000/- 4Between 15 & 17 YearsKramam1 Year ₹30,000/- 5Between 16 & 18 YearsJata1 Year ₹36,000/-6Between 17 & 19 YearsGhanam1 Year₹36,000/-

What to prepare

Documents required

Two items on the corporation's list are not what they look like.

The caste, residence and birth certificates are one document rather than three. The guidelines ask for the Integrated Certificate that MeeSeva issues, which carries caste, residence and date of birth together (scheme guidelines).

The study certificate has a prescribed proforma, and the pathasala fills it, not the family. It asks for the institution's name, its registration number and address, the head of the institution's name and contact details, the student's roll number and date of birth, the guardian's name and number, the year of study written against the named course, the start and end dates of the course, and, for a Vedam student, which of Moolam, Padam, Kramam and Jata have already been passed. It closes with the stamp and signature of the head of the institution, and the student signs it as well (study certificate proforma). Whose register that registration number has to come from is spelled out not on the form but in the earlier notification, which asks for the number held with Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams or the Endowments Department (earlier VV-VE notification).

One row on that form has no rate behind it. The proforma offers Smartham, Agamam, Moolam, Padam, Kramam, Jata, Ghana and Others as courses to write a year of study against (study certificate proforma), while the guidelines price six courses and never mention Agamam at all (scheme guidelines). A pathasala can therefore certify a course the scheme publishes no amount for.

Upload limits differ between the two documents, so check which round is running before scanning anything: the earlier notification capped each scanned PDF at 250 kb (earlier VV-VE notification), the 2019-20 guidelines at 1 mb (scheme guidelines). The corporation keeps a compression note and the certificate formats together on its downloads page (forms and formats).

Step by step

How to apply

There is one counter. The guidelines send eligible Vedic students to register on the corporation's portal, in its prescribed format, and name no other filing route at all (scheme guidelines). The public form surfaces on the corporation's schemes page when a round is notified, and that page is at present showing a year heading with no scheme card under it (schemes page).

For one file, the corporation's Know your status page is the lookup, and it turns on a date of birth quite as much as on the handle an applicant identifies the file with, whether that is a reference number, a mobile or an Aadhaar (know your status). Date of birth is doing double duty on this scheme, since age is also what places a student on a course band, so it is worth making sure one date sits on the Integrated Certificate, on the study certificate and in the registration alike.

Beside that sit standing lists, each narrowed by year, scheme, district and mandal (list of beneficiaries, list of rejected applicants). Their district filter now carries the reorganised districts of Andhra Pradesh, Annamayya, Bapatla, NTR, Palnadu and the rest, while the corporation's own beneficiary abstract was compiled under the older district map, so an old Vedavyasa sanction and a fresh lookup will not sit under the same district name.

The list to watch in the weeks after filing is the one headed pending for Re-Scan and Upload (list pending for Re-Scan and Upload). A file sitting there is waiting on the legibility of a scan, not on a verdict, and it is the state a Veda Vyasa applicant is most likely to land in given that the study certificate arrives from the pathasala rather than from the family. There is no separate payment tracker: appearing on the beneficiary list is the corporation's public record that a file was sanctioned, and the credit then reaches the student's SB account.

How winners are picked

Selection process

One committee decides everything. The guidelines hand shortlisting, finalisation of applications and the sanction of assistance to the State Level Selection Committee of the corporation, and publish no weighting, no interview, no order of merit and no ceiling on how many awards a round may carry (scheme guidelines). The whole visible filter is therefore the eligibility test plus the scrutiny of what was uploaded.

How narrow that filter has been is visible in the corporation's own accounting. Over the four years its abstract covers, all its schemes together sanctioned 1,41,264 benefits, and Vedavyasa accounts for 155 of them (abstract of beneficiaries). A complete and validated application is competing inside a line the corporation has filled exactly once.

Fine print

Terms & conditions

The assistance is tied to the course sanctioned, and the period of study forms part of that sanction, so a student moving from Padam to Kramam is in effect sanctioned again, on a fresh study certificate and at a different rate (scheme guidelines).

What the guidelines never promise is the full run of the course. The rate table prints six years against Smartham and Moolam, yet the document sanctions annual financial assistance under a notification headed for one year, and no clause in it commits the corporation to the remaining years (scheme guidelines). The period of study describes the course, not a promised run of payments.

One clause outlives the sanction. An application later found to have stated something untrue can cost the student the award after the credit has landed, because the guidelines leave the corporation free to cancel it, to withdraw it, or to take the money back (scheme guidelines). An age written up to reach a higher band, or a pathasala that turns out to be on no register, is therefore not a harmless error made at the form stage.

Get help

Contact

The corporation runs every scheme it has from a single office on the Endowments Commissionerate campus at Gollapudi in Vijayawada, Krishna district, and its contact page publishes a switchboard number, a separate queries number and an email address (contact details). There is no Veda Vyasa desk and no Vedic education helpline to ask for.

What is scheme-specific lives in the site's file shelves rather than at the counter. The Veda Vyasa study certificate format is published on the downloads page alongside the Kashyapa life certificate and the Chanakya consent letter and write-up (forms and formats), and that same shelf is pinned into the sidebar of the beneficiary and rejected lists (list of beneficiaries). Orders affecting the corporation are posted separately under government orders (government orders).

Source

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Frequently asked questions

From the official scheme FAQ (myScheme)

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