Announcement of ICCR Scholarship Scheme for AY 2024-25
Embassy of India, Ashgabat is pleased to inform that the Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR) has announced scholarships for Turkmen Nationals to study various subjects at Under Graduate, Post Graduate and Research level as well as to pursue study of Indian Culture such as dance, music, theatre, performing art, sculpture, Indian languages, cuisine etc. in various universities/institutes in India during the academic year 2024-25.
2. The applications from interested Turkmen 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 in India” portal (where all the foreign students coming to India to pursue various courses needs to register mandatorily) the process for admission for the AY 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:-
20th February, 2024* | Opening of Portal for inviting applications from interested candidates |
| 30th April, 2024* | Last date of application to be submitted by students |
| 31st May, 2024* | Last date of Universities to inform the decision
(if confirmed, intimation to Missions, if rejected, intimation to students) |
| 30th June, 2024* | Last date for allocating scholarship and generating Offer Letters by Indian Mission abroad. |
| 15th July, 2024* | Last date of acceptance by students |
| 22nd 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 |
| 30th July, 2024* | round students to convey their acceptances |
* The above timeline is tentative as of now. The exact/final timeline will be shared once the process of admission for the AY 2024-25 is finalized and Study in India Portal is activated for ICCR Scholars.
3. ICCR has rationalized the list of Universities/Institutes for scholarship and now there are 126 Universities/Institutes with ICCR for the AY 2024-25. The list of Universities/Institutes will be reflected in application Portal when opened.
4. Highlights of admission process are highlighted at Annexure-A. 
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