KVPY (Kishor Vaigyanik Protsahan Yojana) exam has been canceled forever after 2022. The Department of Science and Technology declared that KVPY is canceled and will not be conducted after 2022. DST has also announced the KVPY fellowship program. As per the reports, DST will now combine the KVPY fellowship with INSPIRE fellowship.

On the official website of DST- kvpy.iisc.ac.in. a notice was issued by DST which stated that DST has decided to subsume KVPY with INSPIRE. KVPY Aptitude Test is canceled and will not be organized from the year 2022 ahead. Ongoing KVPY will continue to receive fellowship as per criteria from the Department of Science and Technology.

INSPIRE- Innovation in Science Pursuit for Inspired Research is a fellowship program under the Depart of Science and Technology which aims at encouraging India's Youth toward science from an early age. It focuses on building the required critical human resource pool for reinforcing and developing the Science & Technology system and R & D base.

The KVPY results 2021 were declared IISc Bangalore on June 2021, and the merit lists for three streams- SA, SX, and SB were also released. The students with the KVPY fellowship till 2021 will continue to get aid from the Department of Science and Technology, the KVPY fellowship.

From 2022 onwards, the KVPY will be linked with INSPIRE, and the Department of Science and Technology will conduct the exam under the name of the Government of India.

The exam was conducted by the Indian Institute of Science (IISc)- Bangalore on behalf of DST, and the exam awarded a fellowship to selected students up to the Pre-PhD level. The main aim of the KVPY fellowship was to encourage the youth of India to pursue science courses and research careers in science.

Source: kvpy.iisc.ac.in