The State Government launched the Chief Minister’s Free Scholarship Scheme with the aim of providing free scholarship to meritorious and needy students. The scholarship is granted annually to a candidate from the BPL category or to one genuinely deserving. It is granted to a student who succeeds in securing admission to any of the top twenty universities in the world in a chosen discipline. The scholarship aims to cover course fees, hostel/accommodation charges, books, stationaries and to & from travelling charges once a year from the institute to the home country, SIDICO is the nodal agency for implementation of this scheme.