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Announcement of 100 ICCR Scholarships Slots globally under Lata Mangeshkar Dance & Music Scholarship Scheme (A1209) (formerly ICCR Scholarship Scheme for Indian Culture) for the academic year 2024-25.

Consulate General of India

Houston

ICCR is pleased to announce 100 Scholarships slots under Lata Mangeshkar Dance & Music Scholarship Scheme (A1209) (formerly /CCR Scholarship Scheme for Indian Culture) for pursuing study of Indian Culture such as dance, music, theatre, performing art, sculpture, Indian languages. Indian cuisine. etc. at Indian Universities / institutes for the academic year 2024-25

The applications from interested international students for academic year 2024-25 will be invited online. Earlier the applications were invited directly on ICCR's A2A Scholarship Portal http://a2ascholarships.iccr.gov.in, however, with the inception of new "Study ln lndia" portal (where all the foreign students coming to India to pursue various courses needs to register mandatorily) the process for admissions for the A.Y 2024-25 might get transformed and the same will be intimated in due course of time (along with the flow chart). The tentative timeline would be as under: -

20-February,2024	Opening of Portal for inviting application from interested candidates
30 April, 2024	Last date of application to be submitted by students
31 May, 2024	Last date of Universities to inform the decision (if confirmed, intimation to Missions: if rejected, intimation to students)
30 June, 2024	Last Date for allocating scholarship and generating Offer Letters by Indian Mission abroad.
15 July, 2024	Last date of acceptance by students
22-July, 2024	Based on the number of acceptances in the first round (if acceptances are less than the scholarship seats allocated) Indian Mission to offer scholarship to other students who were not considered in the first round.
30 July, 2024	Second -round students to convey their acceptances.