NSP Scholarship Biometric Authentication: Check Complete Process

NSP Scholarship Biometric Authentication: In order to disburse the scholarship under scholarship schemes to the Ministry of Minority Affairs, the Government after considering the findings of the physical verification of Institutes/ beneficiaries for academic year 2023- 24, carried out by National Council of Applied Economic Research (NCAER) wherein various discrepancies in authenticity of institutes/ beneficiaries have been noticed, decided to re-validate the applications and verification of SNO/DNO/INO/HoI/applicants by organizing special drive through Aadhar based bio-metric authentication.

In interest of prompt disbursement of Scholarship amount, applicants are suggested to make sure that the Aadhaar number provided is seeded with the Bank Account as the payment of Scholarships will be made through Aadhaar Based Payment System, only.

The updation of their Aadhaar in NSP portal will be done by all concerned (SNO, DNO, HoI, INO and applicants) to observe the guidelines/instructions posted on NSP portal and before 13th September 2023 to facilitate smooth Aadhaar based authentication. In case the applicant is below 18 years of age, Aadhaar details of his/her parents/legal guardian is to be updated.

Latest Update: NSP services are now available at Common Service Centres (CSCs). Students can avail the scholarship related services by visiting the nearby CSCs. The total charges for the entire activity per candidate (including generation of Reference number, biometric -authentication, generation of One-Time Registration (OTR) number, and filing of complete application form of the candidate) is fixed at Rs 30.00 (inclusive of all applicable taxes, etc.) To locate the nearest CSC please visit the link:https://locator.csccloud.in/

Dear Student , if you are getting error 904 while doing face authentication, kindly update UIDAI AadhaarFACERD App from PlayStore.

It has been observed in some cases that student’s / parent’s / legal guardian’s face authentication for generation of OTR is getting failed as they (Aadhaar Holder) have locked the biometrics for authentication in their Aadhaar. In such cases students / parents / legal guardians are advised to check their Biometric Lock / Unlock status by using mAadhaar mobile app or My Aadhaar web portal. Before proceeding for face authentication through NSP OTR app, kindly ensure that the Biometric Lock / Unlock status should be as “Unlocked” for authentication in Aadhaar. To lock or unlock the Biometric in Aadhaar, please click on the “Lock/Unlock Aadhaar” option on myAdhaar web portal(please refer to the link:https://resident.uidai.gov.in/bio-lock). For assistance, please watch the video.

NSP Scholarship Biometric Authentication Complete Process

Full form of HoI, INO, DNO, SNO, CSC:

• HoI stands for Head of Institute
• INO stands for Institute Nodal Officer
• DNO stands for District Nodal Officer
• SNO stands for State Nodal Officer
• CSC stands for Common Service Centre

Where to update Aadhaar for NSP Biometric Authentication?

All students are instructed to finalize the NSP biometric authentication process for their scholarship applications. Biometric Authentication should be attended in respective Institute Camps organized by CSC in presence of HoI / INO. Common Service Center (CSC) has been authorized to perform Biometric Authentication. If anyone fails/not completed Biometric Authentication his application will be marked as ‘Rejected‘.

Biometric Authentication should be attended in respective Institute Camps organized by CSC in presence of HoI / INO.

Documents/ Details are required for Biometric Authentication

Remember to carry your NSP Account Details (Aadhar Card, Application ID, Username, and Password) when visiting the CSC Centre for the biometric authentication process for your scholarship application.

Procedure of Biometric Authentication of applicants

• Common Service Centre (CSC) VLE will conduct camps in the institutions to perform the biometric authentication of the re- validated applicants.
• Applicants will report to CSC VLE along with Aadhaar number and NSP user Id for Biometric Authentication.
• CSC VLE will validate information reported by Applicants through the NSP biometric authentication utility.
• If the information provided by the Applicants matches with an entry in NSP database, details of Applicants will be returned to NSP-BA utility which will be shown to Applicants for confirmation and then CSC VLE will take a live photograph of Applicants.
• CSC VLE will perform biometric authentication for Applicants after successful validation.
• On successful biometric authentication data will be stored in the CSC database and NSP portal will be updated with success/failure of biometric authentication along with other transaction details.

Procedure of Applicants Re-validation of by INOs/DNOs

• Successfully biometric authenticated applications will be made available in the INO logins for re-validation.
• Re- validation will be opened for INO, only if bio-auth of HoI and INO of that institute is successful.
• SMS will also be sent to these students informing that their application is reverted to their INOs for re-validation.
• In case applications are not re-validated by INO till the last cut-off date of application re-validation by INO, the applications will be escalated to SNO’s/DNO’s login for re-validation.
• While re-validation by L1 or L2 officers, the application will be marked Accepted or Rejected. No other option will be available during re-validation.

NSP Biometric Authentication: FAQ’s