DoSJE introduces Key Reforms and Digital Initiatives to Simplify Scholarship Access

• Department of Social Justice & Empowerment (DoSJE), under the Ministry of Social Justice & Empowerment, has rolled out reforms to simplify scholarship access for Scheduled Caste (SC) and Other Backward Classes (OBC) students.
• Two headline changes: (i) dispensation of the Domicile Certificate requirement, and (ii) launch of the SETU portal on the UMANG platform for end-to-end digital scholarship governance.
• Relevant to UPSC GS-II (welfare schemes for vulnerable sections; governance, e-governance) and Prelims (schemes, portals, nodal ministry mapping).