Not only mid career sponsorship which every ministry and stat board introduce their own pattern, even undergrad studies got many different scholarship schemes where most are quite easy to qualify.

eg. last time SAF scholar = SAFOS = At least BG before retirement. Now SAF itself got 3 or 4 main scholarships + each service branch and expert skill function create their own scholarship program, so we now have all sorts of SAF regulars supposedly a scholar but most of them retire as LTC or SLTC.

It is the same in ministry, stat board & other quasi gov departments as well. The whole concept of government scholar is now become a joke.