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Announcement of 100 ICCR scholarships slots under Lata Mangeshkar Dance & Music Scholarship Scheme(A1209) (Formerly ICCR Scholarship Scheme for Indian Culture) for the academic year 2025-26.

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Announcement of 100 ICCR scholarships slots under Lata Mangeshkar Dance & Music Scholarship Scheme(A1209) (Formerly ICCR Scholarship Scheme for Indian Culture) for the academic year 2025-26.

ICCR is pleased to announce 100 Scholarships slots under Lata Mangeshkar Dance & Music Scholarship Scheme (A1209) (formerly ICCR 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 2025-26.

The applications from interested international students for academic year 2025-26 will be invited online through ICCR’s A2A Scholarship Portal https://a2ascholarships.iccr.gov.in , which will be operational from 20^th February 2025. Once the student has obtained admission on A2A portal and the Mission/Post has decided to award scholarship to that particular student, he/she (student) may be advised to register on SII Portal for obtaining Unique ID and Further process including visa and registration with FRRO (VISA and FRRO registration are to be processed on SII portal). Also, a “Timeline for the admission process” has been set which is given below for reference.

20 February 2025	Opening of Portal for Inviting Applications from interested Candidates
30 April 2025	Last date of application to be submitted by students.
31 May 2025	Last date of universities to inform the decision (if confirmed, intimation to Missions; if rejected, intimation to students).
15 June 2025	Last date for allocating scholarship and generating Offer Letters by Indian Mission abroad.
22 June 2025	Last date of acceptance by students.
01 July 2025	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.
10 July 2025	Second- round students to convey their acceptances.